okay this is probably a really obvious question..bear with me i'm extremely new at this and i really wanna get it down..on lissy's css page, where it has the really long style sheet, she has some things in bold, like body { or td {...so i was wondering, are you supposed to leave out the bolded stuff?

no, the bolded words define the object you want to add the style to

body{styles in here}
td{}
etc.