Joomla CSS not rendering on IE or Firefox -

just had frustrating couple of hours , figured i'd haul out big guns , ask intertubes.

i have joomla site 3rd party template doesn't seem rendering css in ie8, ie9 or firefox, opera, chrome , safari reading boss.

the internet abuzz questions upwards of 4 years ago issue, i'm not finding recent. old issues personal sites happened on no love on answers did find.

my gut feeling directs css not being picked or being ignored firefox , ie. don't know or how begin looking can offered ecstatically accepted.

thanks.

line 39 of styles.css has incorrectly coded background style:

#header-w {position:relative;  background:"fff }

the " should # color.

ie , firefox using stricter standards others, break once there's error.

once that's corrected, rest of styles load.

IO