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

Posted by Peter Basson
Peter Basson
550 Points

Why is this help section so useless

The site keeps giving me instructions then telling me "bummer" after I do EXACTLY what it says. Site sucks, only using it because class instructor insists.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Nick Pettit</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html">
        <nav>
          <ul></ul>
        </nav>
        <h1>Nick Pettit</h1>
        <h2>Designer</h2>
      </a>
    </header>
    <section></section>
    <footer>
      <p>&copy; 2013 Nick Pettit.</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>
Julie Ogden
Julie Ogden
3,330 Points

Some of the challenges can be frustrating because of a simple typo or you wrote functional code that is not what the instructor wants exactly. I wouldn't say this means Treehouse "sucks". View it as an opportunity to problem-solve. You're going to do a lot of it in coding. ;)

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

No, actually it's not exactly what it asked for. I know this because I did the same thing you did. Your <nav> and <li> are inside of the anchor link. It asked for it to be just outside/after the anchor link. That's why it's failing.

I'll say this. Yes, sometimes the error messages are failing. And when you're learning error messages are good, but when you're coding on a real project, many times you don't get a good error message. Sometimes all you get is the white screen of death. Whether by design or not, it's preparing you for the fun to come.

4 Answers

jason chan
jason chan
31,009 Points
jason chan
jason chan
31,009 Points 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <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>

all three challenges done. i recommend you watch the video again and try again.

Peter Basson
Peter Basson
550 Points
Peter Basson
Peter Basson
550 Points

My "and" is outside of the anchor link? That doesn't make sense to me.

Julie Ogden
Julie Ogden
3,330 Points

He meant to say "nav" not "and". Probably auto-correct.

Peter Basson
Peter Basson
550 Points
Peter Basson
Peter Basson
550 Points

I have tried writing inside the anchor link and outside, but either way I get the "bummer" message.....?

Julie Ogden
Julie Ogden
3,330 Points
Julie Ogden
Julie Ogden
3,330 Points

If your code looks exactly like this, it will go through (I removed the excess code here to focus on what you're adding):

<header> <a href="index.html"> <h1>Nick Pettit</h1> <h2>Designer</h2> </a> <nav> <ul></ul> </nav> </header>