I can't get it to show up and spent hours staring at the code and just cannot figure out what I've done wrong! Please help! 
Here's the code:
Here's the link (Please overlook the foolishness - I'm learning..)
http://www.bellybytes.com/practice/css.html
and I did load the background - you can even see it! 
:
http://www.bellybytes.com/practice/bg.gif
I've been doing text with CSS for a while and thought it was time I ventured into more of CSS - love it! - and everything was going perfect and then this. Sigh. Anyone? Thanks!!
Busy posted this at 04:34 — 26th April 2003.
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try background-image: url("bg.gif");
quotes around bg.gif if that doesn't work, try add "practice/bg.gif"
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"); } ?>
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disaster-master posted this at 04:49 — 26th April 2003.
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Just a word of encouragement. Don't give up. There is plenty of help here.
I speak from experience...of a css dummy once.
Sonia
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justjeni posted this at 05:04 — 26th April 2003.
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Thanks, busy, I'll give your suggestions a try tomorrow - ready to call it a night for tonight. Been sitting on my numb butt for 14 hours today - shame, huh! Total addict. Anyway, I hope one of those works- I'll let you know!
"Just a word of encouragement. Don't give up. There is plenty of help here. I speak from experience...of a css dummy once."
disaster-master, thanks!
I won't give up - although I had to finally on that background today. And I had just been thinking to myself, "Gosh, this stuff is easy - and fun, why didn't I get into it more sooner"! Then this happened. Arg. Well, it's good to know I can get help - no, make that GREAT, as no one in my little world likes, does or even cares about all this "stuff" as they refer to it.
Thanks again, both of you!
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disaster-master posted this at 05:10 — 26th April 2003.
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LOL.....yes, I know what you mean. My husband refers to everything as "javascript". He doens't even know what that is.
He always says, "You better leave me alone woman or I will go put some javascript on your computer and make it blow up."
But when he wants to order something off the net it's "baby this and baby that".
Sonia
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justjeni posted this at 22:35 — 26th April 2003.
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LOL disaster-master - that is so much like a man!!! Gotta love 'em though, huh!
Well, I'm still having problems. I tried both suggestions - practice/bg.gif and the quotations, and neither worked. I'm really stumped on this one. I read the instructions over and over, looking at the code over and over - every semi-colon, but I just can't get this to work. If someone can figure this out, I'd sure appreciate it! Thanks again.
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disaster-master posted this at 23:48 — 26th April 2003.
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Actually, I think all you need is:
body { background-image : url(bg.gif); }
A:link, A:visited, A:active { text-decoration:none }
A:hover { color:#ff3300 }
-->
Sonia
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justjeni posted this at 23:51 — 27th April 2003.
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Thanks, disaster-master!! It works now - at first I didn't see the space you added before and after the colon, I just noticed the "}" at the end, but now I just saw that and that got it working - I owe you! I was tearing my hair out over this one. The tutorial I used has it exactly as I did have it - shame on that writer!
(gosh, that background looks like it belongs on someone's home pages on geocities...
)
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Suzanne posted this at 01:24 — 28th April 2003.
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actually, it was the space she removed, not the spaces she added -- it's url(), not url () -- the spaces make a difference, just like if they occur in the middle of a wo rd.
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justjeni posted this at 21:26 — 28th April 2003.
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Oh, you mean the space removed by the bg.gif - thanks! I thought it was adding that space. You do learn something new every day!
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justjeni posted this at 21:31 — 28th April 2003.
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I just want to add another, big, THANK YOU! to everyone - this really was driving me batty, but I won't forget it now, that's for sure!
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