Quite the contrary. If you actually learn it, I’ll feel very rewarded by your accomplishment.
That’s the normal default color for text within an anchor. According to the screen shot, the CSS that styles the text and more seems to be missing. Perhaps it’s misplaced?
When working on your page, I noticed that the anchor is around just the text, but you could have included the icon, too, if you wished.
EDIT:
I see from your screen shot that you are sticking with IDs instead of classes. That may affect the CSS. If you wonder why I went through the trouble of changing the IDs to classes in my demo, please read the following thread starting with this post through the end for an explanation.
My two button classes are clashing and I don't know how to fix it - #10 by ronpat