What is up with my link color being blue??

Question

On this page:
http://www.dobiemaxwell.com/contact.html
The email link is blue.  However, I have the parameters set in Page Properties to be the same red as the other links.
Why is this happening?
Thanks!

Answer 1

You're being tripped up by some basic errors in the code:
1. Local desktop references in the code
<link rel="stylesheet" href="file:///C|/Users/Shelley/Desktop/mm_restaurant1.css" type="text/css" />
This line (which appears on every page and needs to be changed) is pointing to a style sheet on your local desktop.
DW inserts file:///C|Users/Shelley/Desktop when there's no site defined in DW because it does not know where your local site is located on your hard drive.
But that reference won't have any effect on the web because no-one but you has access to your desktop so, if the server can't find the file, it gets ignored.
Have you defined a site in Dreamweaver? This is step 1 for all website creation in DW.
The code should read something like:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="mm_restaurant1.css" type="text/css" />
2. Around Line 46 is this
a:link {
color:#B70000; /*
text-decoration: none;
Delete /* which is an opening comment marker (without a closing one).
It's causing the rest of the style rules in the page to be treated as a single unclosed comment i.e. they'll all be ignored.
3. Much of this block of code is redundant and contains some syntax errors:
a:link {
color:#B70000; /*
text-decoration: none;
a:visited {
text-decoration: none;
a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
color: #B70000;
a:active {
text-decoration: none;
text-decoration: none;a:visited {
text-decoration: none;
a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
a:active {
text-decoration: none;
text-decoration: none;a:visited {
text-decoration: none;
a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
a:active {
text-decoration: none;
Replace the above with:
a {
text-decoration: none;
color:#B70000;