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HTML How to Make a Website Creating HTML Content Create Navigation with Lists

Posted by James McCall
James McCall
555 Points

Cant find solution to How to make a New Website- Navigation-Question #3

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> Here is my answer to question #3 which is the same as my answer to question #2 What do I need to add or edit? Where can we find the correct solutions when we are stuck? Thank you

<head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Nick Pettit</title> </head> <body> <header> <a href="index.html"> <h1>Nick Pettit</h1> <h2>Designer</h2> </a> <nav> <ul> <li><a href="index.html">Portfolio</a></li>
<li><a href="About.html">About</a></li> <li><a href="Contact.html">Contact</a></li> 

      </ul>
    </nav>
</header>
<section></section>
<footer>
  <p>&copy; 2013 Nick Pettit.</p>
</footer>

</body> </html>

Neil Anuskiewicz
Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 Points
Neil Anuskiewicz
Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 Points

What specifically are questions 2 and 3?

Gregory Katchmar
Gregory Katchmar
10,912 Points

Your "About.html" and "Contact.html" simply need to be changed to all lower-case.

5 Answers

James McCall
James McCall
555 Points
James McCall
James McCall
555 Points

Gregory, I tried that but it still says: Bummer! The Portfolio list item should link to "index.html". So I cant procede. Thanks Jim

Neil Anuskiewicz
Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 Points
Neil Anuskiewicz
Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 Points

Here's an idea. I agree that you need to change the first letter of each to lower case as file names are case sensitive. Also, class="selected" if I remember this course correctly. I'm still not 100% sure what the "question" is I can see some problems that might be causing the error.

<ul> <li><a href="index.html" class="selected">Portfolio</a></li> <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li> <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li> </ul>

James McCall
James McCall
555 Points
James McCall
James McCall
555 Points

I did the same thing 4 times and it worked the 4th time. Still not sure why Thank you everyone for your help Jim

Neil Anuskiewicz
Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 Points
Neil Anuskiewicz
Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 Points

Could you post the code that finally worked? You changed absolutely nothing between the 3rd and 4th attempt?

James McCall
James McCall
555 Points
James McCall
James McCall
555 Points

Yes, I kept copying and pasting the same code I uploaded before and then it worked on 4th try

Neil Anuskiewicz
Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 Points
Neil Anuskiewicz
Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 Points

Yeah, I occasionally run into glitches (possibly bugs?). I've completed the CSS basics course yet it's still indicating my next steps in that course every time I return to my Frontend Dev track. I wonder how to report stuff like this, probably opening a ticket to Treehouse's support. It's probably helpful to them to know about things that go wrong.

James McCall
James McCall
555 Points
James McCall
James McCall
555 Points

Yes, Neil, I agree and Im in touch with Walter at support. It was weird cause when it accepted it it didn't do the usual congratulations and opened the next video automatically

Neil Anuskiewicz
Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 Points
Neil Anuskiewicz
Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 Points

Cool, if you know the support person by name that's a good sign. They must have good support. I'll try it out.

Neil Anuskiewicz
Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 Points
Neil Anuskiewicz
Neil Anuskiewicz
11,007 Points

BTW, I had no idea how much fun coding can be. A day off from work and there's really nothing I'd rather be doing. I'm not sure if that's sad or cool. :-)