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CSS How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Add Fonts

Posted by Renata Phillippi
Renata Phillippi
Courses Plus Student 1,102 Points

Dear Treehouse, I'm fairly certain my code is correct but for the life of me I cannot get past this screen, help!?

As mentioned above, I cannot get past this screen. There may be too much code as I went a little above and beyond but it's been so long since I started this module I cannot work out how to fix this. Help!? I'm lost and confused and just want to finish this thing!

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Nick Pettit | Designer</title>
    <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400italic,400,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html" id="logo">
        <h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
        <h2>Designer</h2>
      </a>
      <nav>
        <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>
      </nav>
    </header>
    <div id="wrapper">
      <section>
        <ul>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-01.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Experimentation with color and texture.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-02.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Playing with blending modes in Photoshop.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-06.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-06.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Trying to create an 80's style of glows.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-09.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-09.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Drips created using Photoshop brushes.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-12.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-12.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Creating shapes using repetition.</p>
            </a>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </section>
      <footer>
        <a href="http://twitter.com/nickrp"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo"></a>
        <a href="http://facebook.com/nickpettit"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook Logo"></a>
        <p>&copy; 2014 Nick Pettit.</p>
      </footer>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>
css/main.css 
a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

#wrapper {
  max-width: 940px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}

h1 {
  color: #fff;
  font-family: 'Open Sans', "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif;
  font-weight: 700;
}

h2 {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a {
  color: #fff;
}

nav a:hover {
  color: #32673f;
}

3 Answers

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hi Renata,

It's not letting you pass the second part of the challenge, because you have added additional fonts and color to the h1 declaration. If you remove the color and the two additional fonts (Arial & Helvetica), the challenge will pass. 

h1 {
  font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;
  font-weight: 700;
}

The challenges are very strict on what it wants.

Keep Coding! :)

Renata Phillippi
PLUS
Renata Phillippi
Courses Plus Student 1,102 Points
Renata Phillippi
Renata Phillippi
Courses Plus Student 1,102 Points

That was utterly frustrating. I had removed the extra names before but still no forward movement. When I removed the names AND the color, then I finally moved forward. Ridiculously strict.

Thank you!

Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points
Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

You're very welcome! Happy that fixed it for you. I was stuck on one forever because I put a period at the end of a sentence (string) instead of exclamation mark.

Renata Phillippi
PLUS
Renata Phillippi
Courses Plus Student 1,102 Points
Renata Phillippi
Renata Phillippi
Courses Plus Student 1,102 Points

That's funny. Probably not funny at the time though. I've made many of those mistakes while learning.