409 Home Page Addition

I tried to use the keith.css as an external css file and name my new html home file homeNew.html, since I have never worked with using css outside of my html file before. However, I failed miserably at this. So, I went back to my roots, where I put the css inside of my html file. I also tried adding the classes such as .leftcolumn or function leftColumn( ) inside of my html file and neither of these were not being recognized correctly by the file.

However, I did add some things we learned in class today. I created a pop-up button for my picture, which is a brand new concept for me. This was not very difficult to do, though. The functions are set up similarly to AS3, so I knew how to read them properly and understand them.

Lastly, I tried to validate my code. Although it is the second week of school, I am still quite rusty on html. I keep confusing html and xhtml rules with one another with certain aspects. The only problem that still remains is that the validator claims that it is unable to determine the parse code, which I am unsure how to fix.

I would like to work more with the external css files, because it is alien to me, but at the same time would rather stick to old conventions that work. I would really like to blend the two, and am hoping that in the next assignment I can figure out how to do so.

My page can be viewed at: http://people.rit.edu/~say1534/409/home.html.
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