Thank you for your help RonB
This is the code I have and I still cannot get my bg color to work. I don't think I am missing anything, I am new to this so I am not sure.
I use Alley Code to write with and it works in the browser with that so I am really stumped.
Kenton
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>kentonstore home page</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#00ffff">
<h1 align="center"><font color="#cc9900">Welcome to Kenton Store!</font> </h1>
<h1 align="center"><font color="#663366">Don't Hide...Come on in</font> </h1>
<h1 align="center"><img style="width: 406px; height: 300px;" title="" height="300" alt="Welcome!" src="http://site-images.ws/images/cust/91649/max(2).jpg" width="406">
<center> </center>
<center> </center>
<h2 align="center"><font color="#cc9900">We have many things going on at Kenton Store.<br>
<br>
Do you like to make money?<br>
<br>
What a question of course you do.<br>
We have money making opportunities! <br>
</font></h2><br>
<br>
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</body>
</html>