STYLE TAGS and CSS ( Cascading style sheets )
The CSS
(cascading style sheets) syntax is made up of three parts: a selector, a property and a value:
*example*
selector {property: value;}
The above code stands for something like this below.
.main { width: 800px; }
Now the style tag's are at the beginning and at the end of your css
(cascading style sheets) to make the css codes work like example below and to
show the style / coloring / etc: of the web site
<style type="text/css"> css code goes here </style>
-------OR-------
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-color:000000!important; }
</style>
-------OR-------
<style type="text/css"> .main { width: 800px; } </style>
and you always have a beginning tag which is <style> or <style type="text/css">
and then you always have end tag which is </style>
and for best results only use one set of style tags per web page
for more info on CSS visit
http://w3schools.com/css/css_intro.asp