text rollover query

Hello all,

I am rebuilding a site I first coded in 1997 in 3.2.  The site's a mess 
after all these years and methods of going at it - from hancoding to 
WYSIWYG and back.   I'm stripping out all the old code and using a style 
sheet and ssi driven menus for the navigation bars.

I thought I was on the home stretch with the rebuild until I realized 
atomz.com doesn't search the ugly as sin but utilitarian drop down boxes on 
several major pages of the site.  The corrective action I'm considering is 
expanding the navigation as opposed to having visitors drill 4 levels down 
for information.

What I have been trying to locate is the way to do a rollover on a link 
using the a:hover command so that the small text becomes larger as I'm 
shrinking text sizes to keep the nav bar from being 2 screens long.

I have tried

a:hover {text-decoration: none; background: #EEB422; font-size: large}

but it doesn't seem to get a response.

The test page is at: http://pagan-home.com/Sept2001/index2.html

I've tried to find answers through webmonkey.com and wvdl.com as well as in 
my DHTML book by O'Reilly and the CSS book by Lie and Bos.  I'm beginning 
to think my mind is fried because it has got to be somewhere I have already 
looked and I've just missed the extremely simple answer.

Thanks in advance for any ideas you may have, including alternatives to 
such a long navigation list, url's to resources, etc.   I have tried other 
methods before but the right side method seems to be the cleanest for the 
blind plus provide a "you can go anywhere from here" aspect to the site. 
I'd rather not have visitors drilling down four levels to find information 
if I can help it.

Regards,
Marsha Graham

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