[cygnus]

Help! Please help me! :(

I feel like a total idiot, but I can't help it anymore. I'm either not reading into this enough, or too much. Either way, I can't take it anymore and I need help!

My syntax sucks.

I'm trying to add just a simple background for my site, and I can't do it. I want it to cover the whole background which it does wonderfully. However, no matter what I do, or how many times I try to get it right, it won't work.

What is wrong with my syntax?




!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
head>
meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
title>earthdrift

body {
background-color: #FFFFFF
background-image: url (image.jpg);
}

/head>
body>

edit: I had to leave out the first tag of each line because it wasn't being read correctly.