1) http://www.geocities.com/trigon0metry/Welcome.html
^^ if you check the source of that page you will see that the work "recording" is actually supposed to be a link. however it's not working, and I'm pretty sure that i coded it correctly. I've never had an a href tag not working before =/

2) If you look at the same source, you will notice how i have a font tag for monotype corsiva both opening and closing, and directly after that is a tag for a new font. for some reason, the new font wont show up without the tag for monotype corsiva. why?

if you check the source of that page you will see that the work "recording" is actually supposed to be a link. however it's not working
Try
<a href="../blog.html">Recording</a>
That should move it up one directory

) If you look at the same source, you will notice how i have a font tag for monotype corsiva both opening and closing, and directly after that is a tag for a new font. for some reason, the new font wont show up without the tag for monotype corsiva. why?

If the font you use is not installed on your visitors computer the browser will use the user default setting for font

the /blog thing didnt work

also, the font that im using is a default font. thats beside to point though.
here is what my code looks like:
<font face ="monotype corsiva"></font> <font face="franklin gothic medium>text</font>

the font is displayed as the default without the bit in bold. i hope that makes a bit more sense.

I really need help with getting my a href tags to work though.

you're forgetting a quotation mark for the font

<font face="monotype corsiva"></font> <font face="franklin gothic medium">text</font>

^use that code

ooh i wanted to add:

also, i don't really see the point of the first font tag.. there's no text in it. if you want the text to be either monotype corsiva or franklin gothic medium [depending on the person's computer], then i believe you can do this:

<font face="monotype corsiva, franklin gothic medium">text</font>

:)

Haha, that's the whole point!

see, what happened when I tried deleting the tag for mnotype corsiva is that the font restored to the default font. however when I put that m.c. tag in, the font is what I want it to be (franklin gothic medium)

both of my problems still stand =( please help.

p.s.
i actually do have the end quote after franklin gothic medium...i was just re-typing my code by hand in the thread, so i missed that.

EDIT:

after experimenting with my code a little bit, I noticed that the link that wasn't working before (see above posts) works when I remove the div, however it does not have the correct a link etc. css properties. here is my full code with the div


<DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px dashed;
BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px dashed;
BACKGROUND: #FDC9E5;
LEFT: #000000 1px dashed;
BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px dashed;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px dashed;

WIDTH: 450 px;
align=center>
<br>
<a href="blog.html"> Recording </a> my life. Aka my blog
<br>
The Girl who lives
<br>
My own little corner on my own little web
<br>
Visual diary
<br>
Write it down, remember it forever
<br>
</div>



here is my external style sheet. it's short so I wil just post it all


body{
scrollbar-face-color: #FDC9E5;
scrollbar-arrow-color: #FDC9E5;
scrollbar-highlight-color:#6E6E6A;
scrollbar-3dlight-color: #FDC9E5;
scrollbar-shadow-color: #FDC9E5;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #FDC9E5;
scrollbar-track-color: #FDC9E5;
cursor: e-resize;
overflow-x: hidden;
}

table table table td { filter:alpha(opacity=65); -moz-opacity:0.50; opacity:0.50; -khtml-opacity:0.50; }

A:link{color:#6E6E6A;text-decoration:underline}
A:visited{color:#6E6E6A;text-decoration:underline}
A:active{color:#6E6E6A;text-decoration:underline}
A:hover{color:#6E6E6A;text-decoration:none;cursor:crosshair}

.blog { font-family: tahoma; width:100%; font-size: 7pt; color: #000000; background-color: #ff9933; border: #ff0000; border-style:dotted; font-weight: normal; border-width: 1px; text-align: left; align:left; }

body, div, table, br {color:#000000; font-face:comic sans ms; font-size:7pt; line-height:8pt; margin-top:0px; margin-left:6px; margin-right:4px; margin-bottom:0px}


without the div, the link works but it does not follow the properties I assigned to it.

you seem to be missing a quote here at the end of your style...

<DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px dashed;
BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px dashed;
BACKGROUND-color: #FDC9E5;
LEFT: #000000 1px dashed;
BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px dashed;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px dashed;

WIDTH: 450 px;"
align=center>