I am making a web page for my civics class (we are doing mock elections and I want to setup a page for our candidate) I know the basics about HTML, I went on various websites to get free templates to use to make the setup of my website but I don't know how to Incorporate them into my website, I look at the source code and it won't show up on the page, I am using a free hosting website that lets me edit my page through HTML can anyone help?

When you take the standalone .html code while it is on your computer and double-click on it, will it open up as a proper web page? Did you double check the instructions for your web service to see exactly where your .html was supposed to be loaded? That's about the only two things I can think of that would be wrong.

sorry it took awhile to respond, to simply put it, I am using Dreamweaver 8, and on the opening message I went to the Page Designs (CSS) I found one that I like and I redid it and I went to freespaces.com that is where I am having my website hosted, and I uploaded it, and when I clicked on the url, the page showed up but when I would type the address in a new browser the page comes up white and onlyu shows the lettering nothing else (no borders ext.) but when I used Page Designs on Dreamweaver and played with it and uploaded the page everything shows up when I open new browsers of the page, why is it that I am having such a problem with css am I missing something?

If the page you created in Dreamweaver used an external style sheet, then you will have to upload that also.

yup you are right thanks alot!, haha that was bugging me for almost a week now