I'm not only new here but I am totally green at web design too. I'm trying to write a 3 page site for a homework assignment and I can't figure out what's wrong with my code.
All <p> tags are supposed to be indented 1.8 em, but I need to have a class named para1 where the first <p> tag on every page has no indention, and the font size is double. Here's what I wrote, but the <p> tag indention style overides the class element. Why?/


*my styles*/




body
{background-color=#999966
}


h1,h2,h3
{font-family: Comic Sans MS:sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-color: #445544; text-align: left
}



{font-family:
times new romam, sans-serif; color: black
}


p
{text-indent: 1.8em
}

para1
#para1:first-letter {float:left; font-size:200%; line-height:.5}


Thanks for your input.