FCC Tribute Page Help, Need some help/pointers on how to improve my code Options

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I'm about a month in, into learning HTML and CSS. I've just started Freecodecamp's small projects, the current one being a tribute page that I need to write myself while satisfying certain conditions in order to pass.

I've tried my best to code my tribute page to the conditions asked. Here's a link to my code so far: https://codepen.io/pr-pixel/pen/RwrrNBm

Here is a link on the freecodecamp conditions that I need to satisfy to pass: https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/responsi...-a-tribute-page

And lastly here is a link to the Freecodecamp's example tribute page, which mine is supposed to look like: https://codepen.io/freeCodeCamp/full/zNqgVx

Personally, I think I've put too many unwanted tags. Also for some reason the CSS doesn't work so I'm still trying to figure that out. Ultimately, I just want pointers and tips on the best way to go about this and what I've done wrong.

I'm fairly sure there are answers out there but I don't want to simply look at them and copy them into my code, cause' I feel I won't learn that way.