My website is not responding to the media querie - html

I'm brand new to web development and I have build a little website with 3 pages. My goal is to use #media tags to make it responsive for the following: max-widths: 980px, 768px and 640px. I did the first page and it's been acting weird. How can I make the entire website responsive? Please to assist. My code for all 3 pages and the media is attached. Thanks.
/*first page */
<head>
<title>AboutMe</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="assets/css/style.css">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="top">
<div class="myname">
<h4 class="firstlast">name</h4>
</div>
<div class="list">
<ul>
<li class="contact">Contact</li>
<li class="portfolio">Portfolio</li>
<li class="about">About</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="middle-about-me">
<div class="center">
<h3> About Me</h3>
<hr>
<p class="myinfo">Hi my name is ..... and I was born on October 9th, 1971 in ......
<img src="assets/img/author.jpg" width="150px" height="150px"><br>
  To briefly introduce the... to you I would say it is a country located on the........>
    shares the same borders with ....... It is the world largest<br>
 producer of coacoa used for chocalate and lotions. In one word, it's the country where chocolate tastes like<br>  real chocolate. Since the last discovery of petrol in the country, it's been a little agitated as France and the<br>US want to control the discovery. After obtaining my masters in Business Management, I worked as the marketing representative for an american company before moving to the US to pursue a degree in Mathematic at UNT Dallas and worked for...,...., and.... as a Math instructor. My goal in this program is to learn to build websites from scratch and later on to build apps from scratch. I've got the right instructional staff and the right TAs to help me reach that goal. All I have to do is to go to work.<br>   "Impossible is nothing", Muhammad Ali.</p>
<p class="smile"><i>hover on my picture and start smiling</i></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
<p class="footer-copyright">Copyrigtht © 2019 Portfolio "name" All rights reserved.</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
/*second page */
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="top">
<div class="myname">
<h4 class="firstlast">name</h4>
</div>
<div class="list">
<ul>
<li>Contact</li>
<li>Portfolio</li>
<li>About Me</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="middle">
<div class="center-portfolio">
<h3> Portfolio</h3>
<hr>
<div class="div1"><img src="assets/img/career1.jpg" height="120px" width="150px"></div>
<div class="div2"><img src="assets/img/chocolatour.jpg" height="120px" width="150px"></div>
<div class="div3"><img src="assets/img/guildhouse.jpg" height="120px" width="150px"></div>
<div class="div4"><img src="assets/img/career2.jpg" height="120px" width="150px"></div>
<div class="rotateIn div5"><img src="assets/img/Abidjan1.jpg" height="120px" width="150px"></div>
<div class="div6"><p><i>please to hover on the images</i></p></div>
<div class="banner1">career picture 1</div>
<div class="banner2">chocolate tour</div>
<div class="zoomIn banner5">Abidjan</div>
<div class="banner4">career picture 2</div>
<div class="banner3">Guild Brussels</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
<p class="footer-copyright"> Copyrigtht © 2019 Portfolio "name" All rights reserved.</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
/*third page */
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="top">
<div class="myname">
<h4 class="firstlast">name</h4>
</div>
<div class="list">
<ul>
<li>Contact</li>
<li>Portfolio</li>
<li>About Me</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="middle">
<div class="center">
<h3> Contact</h3>
<hr>
<form>
  Name:<br>
<input id="namebox" type="text" name="name" required="" placeholder="your name">
<br><br>
  Email:<br>
<input id="emailbox" type="Email" name="email" required="" placeholder="example#yahoo.com">
<br><br>
  Message:<br>
<textarea id="messagebox" style="height: 200px; " name="message" placeholder="Enter massage here" required="">
</textarea>
<br><br>
  <input type="submit" value="submit" name="submit">
</form>
<br>
</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
<p class="footer-copyright">
Copyrigtht © 2019 Portfolio "name" All rights reserved.
</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
/* Width at 768px and below */
#media screen and (max-width: 768px) {
body {
background-color : #E9967A;
}
.container {
background-color: green;
border-style: none;
width: 50%;
}
.middle-about-me,
.footer, .top{
width: 50%;
}
.middle-about-me{
width: 50%%;
}
}
/*Width at 640px and below */
#media screen and (max-width: 640px) {
body {
background-color : #E9967A;
}
.container {
background-color: green;
border-style: none;
width: 50%;
}
.middle-about-me,
.footer, .top{
width: 50%;
}
.middle-about-me{
width: 50%%;
}
}

Start out by removing fixed width properties. I am having a hard time seeing how you need width: 50% on everything. Then start by just addressing the styles of your .container element.
A good techniques is setting the max-width to the width you have in mind for the site to be viewed on a normal desktop screen, in the demo I used 600px but you can use any value that feels right.
Then in you media query assign a new max-width value that is appropriate for the screen size in the query, here i used 80% becuase typically on small screens you want the content to mostly fill the width of the screen with a little space on the sides, but again you can configure this to your needs in a variety of ways.
The main thing here is that your container element is now responsive and the content inside can fill up the space however you like from there. Run the snippet and click the Full page link to play around with the screen width and see the behavior working.
.container {
max-width: 600px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
#media screen and (max-width: 640px;) {
.container {
max-width: 80%;
}
}
<div class="container">
<div class="top">
<div class="myname">
<h4 class="firstlast">name</h4>
</div>
<div class="list">
<ul>
<li class="contact">Contact</li>
<li class="portfolio">Portfolio</li>
<li class="about">About</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="middle-about-me">
<div class="center">
<h3> About Me</h3>
<hr>
<p class="myinfo">Hi my name is ..... and I was born on October 9th, 1971 in ......
<img src="assets/img/author.jpg" width="150px" height="150px"><br>
  To briefly introduce the... to you I would say it is a country located on the........>
    shares the same borders with ....... It is the world largest<br>
 producer of coacoa used for chocalate and lotions. In one word, it's the country where chocolate tastes like<br>  real chocolate. Since the last discovery of petrol in the country, it's been a little agitated as France and the<br>US want to control the discovery. After obtaining my masters in Business Management, I worked as the marketing representative for an american company before moving to the US to pursue a degree in Mathematic at UNT Dallas and worked for...,...., and.... as a Math instructor. My goal in this program is to learn to build websites from scratch and later on to build apps from scratch. I've got the right instructional staff and the right TAs to help me reach that goal. All I have to do is to go to work.<br>   "Impossible is nothing", Muhammad Ali.</p>
<p class="smile"><i>hover on my picture and start smiling</i></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
<p class="footer-copyright">Copyrigtht © 2019 Portfolio "name" All rights reserved.</p>
</div>
</div>

I wish you had a sketch of what the final product will look like it would have been very helpful. There is more to making a page responsive than writing just valid HTML tag and corresponding styles and mind typos because from your code the extra % sign will make
.middle-about-me{
width: 50%%;
}
misbehave.
There a couple of things you need to know to be able to make a page responsiveness effective and very close to what you want.
Firstly you should consider resetting the default styles that the browser naturally applies to valid HTML tags by using normalize.css or utilize the power of universal selector which is almost as good in modern browsers, something like:
*,
*::before,
*::after{
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
box-sizing: inherit; /* to inherit the value declared in the body selector */
}
html{
font-size: 62.5% /* (10/16) * 100% and this is possible because by default the value of 100% will be computed to 16px by the browser and equal to 1(r)em, with this conversion we can reduce the calculations whenever you want to convert a value from px to (r)em since the are in multiples of 10 eg 1(r)em == 10px and 10(r)em == 100px*/
}
body{
box-sizing: border-box;
}
img{
width: 100%;
min-width: 27rem; /* to make the images responsive and look good on smaller screens */
}
so with the that basic reset you can always rely on using ems or rems for fonts an percentages for images and other block element when it feels appropriate.
This little write up is not enough to teach you all you need to know about responsiveness in the web but I hope it shed light on your path. Meanwhile those were not my original ideas i took a course by 'Jonas Schmedtman', He actually thought me those.
If you have a sketch of what the final pages should look like or you are still not very clear with what i have tried to explain so far please don't hesitate to add a comment so that we tidy it up together.

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display: flex;
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PS: In case you didn't know, aside and main are semantic HTML5 tags used to markup a page. You can use divs instead of them, but it's not best practice
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Hopefully after that you can use exactly the same column set up for .bioDiv.
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continued content here....
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Ultimately you are just wrapping the image in a Div and setting both it and bioDiv to the same column parameters. It should not hurt in any way to set up menuDiv a similar way.

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<div class="displayBorder">
<div class="displayContainer">
<div class="pictureContainer">
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<div class="switchPhoto" id="switchLeft-wexford" onclick="lastPhoto('wexford-1')"><</div>
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<div class="displayContainer">
<div class="displayTable">
<div class="pictureContainer">
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#Jared Scarito is this what you need??
CSS
.displayContainer{
display:table;
}
.photoContainer,.txt-con{
display:table-cell;
vertical-align:middle;
}
HTML
<div class="displayBorder">
<div class="displayContainer">
<div class="pictureContainer">
<div class="photoContainer">
<div class="switchPhoto" id="switchLeft-wexford" onclick="lastPhoto('wexford-1')">
<</div> <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/rhy46.png" id="wexford-image" />
<div class="switchPhoto" id="switchRight-wexford" onclick="nextPhoto('wexford-1')">></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="txt-con">
<h2 id="wexford">1234 My Street - Sometown, New York</h2>
<h3>$1,249,999</h3>
</div>
</div>
</div>
changed the image to demonstrate
Pretty much the same HTML, added extra div around h3 and h2..

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I would like each row to be even in height, with equal padding between the content of each row.
However the padding on the rows are currently unequal.
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<div class="col-md-8">
<h2>Reader Offer Administrator / Account Manager</h2><br><h3>Thompson & Morgan - March 2007 to August 2015</h3>
<p>A highly varied role acting as support to a successful and fast-moving sales team as well as contact to our client base. My primary duties were to maintain the smooth running of our order processing system, as well as oversee a range of product content across several CMSs. It was this latter part of my job which has spurred me to establish a career in web development.</p>
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</div>
<div class="hr"><hr></div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-4">
<h2 class="sideheader">Education</h2>
</div>
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<h2>University of Brighton</h2><br><h3>October 2003 to July 2006</h3>
<ul>
<li> BA(Hons) Social Science (2:1)</li>
</ul>
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<div class="col-md-12" id="button">
View my full CV
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Here is your specific code :
HTML :
<div class="col-md-8">
<h2>Reader Offer Administrator / Account Manager</h2>
<br> <----- REMOVE THIS
<h3>Thompson & Morgan - March 2007 to August 2015</h3>
<p>A highly varied role acting as support to a successful and fast-moving sales team as well as contact to our client base. My primary duties were to maintain the smooth running of our order processing system, as well as oversee a range of product content across several CMSs. It was this latter part of my job which has spurred me to establish a career in web development.</p>
</div>
Css:
#resume h3, #resume .col-md-8 li, #resume .col-md-8 p {
top: -60px; <----- REMOVE THIS
position: relative;
}
If you remove the <br/> and the top:60px; every thing returns to the normal.

Container not expanding with content

I am having a bit of a problem with one of my containers. It is not expanding with my content. Here is the code:
<!--center section start-->
<div id="centerContent">
<!--center left begin-->
<div id="centerLeft">
<h2>
Special Disney Ticket Offer!
</h2>
<p class="specCont">
<img class="specImg" src="images/universal-main-offer.jpg" alt="Special Universal Studios Ticket Offer!" />
Super Value Disney 3 Day Touch of Magic Ticket! Just $219 for each ticket! Get 3 Days to visit the Disney Theme Parks (Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom) PLUS a 4th day at Disney Quest, Blizzard Beach or Typhoon Lagoon! For an unbelievable value! Call & ask for the Resort offer<br />(restrictions apply).<br /> <strong>Call us: 1-800-544-7646</strong>
</p>
</div>
<!--center left end-->
<!--center right begin-->
<div id="centerRight">
<a href="http://tix.greatorlandodiscounts.com/index.php?catid=106">
<img class="rightFrontImg" src="images/legoland-fl-front-ad.jpg" alt="Legoland Florida Discount Tickets" />
</a>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<!--center right end-->
</div>
<!--center section end-->
CSS:
#centerContent {
width: 980px;
height: 100%;
background-image:url(../images/main-special-bg-strip.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
}
#centerLeft {
width: 572px;
height: 100%;
float:left;
}
#centerRight {
width: 408px;
height: 100%;
float:right;
}
What I am looking to do is have the centerContent div stretch with the two divs inside. I have a background strip on the centerContent that will allow the white background to expand 100%.
I hope that made some sort of sense and thank you in advance for any and all help.
Add overflow:auto; to #centerContent.
Since the child divs are floated, the parent collapses and acts like it has no content. Adding overflow:auto; restores the expected behavior.