It didn't work? That doesn't help - we are not psychic. What did it do? Error message?
I am hosted on HostGator aswell actually, on a Hatchling plan (shared hosting). They are fast enough but it's important to enable all caching options for any Shared Webhost plan. Also check your Resource Usage in the cPanel backend - they have a limit of 20 simultaneous processes server-side, and like every Shared host they have
tiny RAM.
FYI, the Joomla Documentation states that Shared Hosting is not recommended for Multimedia or extension rich sites.
Every line of code counts! It'll be worth looking into going the next-up plan if you're on the lowest "Hatchling" like me
Well obviously you modified the JQdefault-emotop and you've got a typo in there - on line 136 it has...
<background: url(../images/body1.gif) repeat-x;
...so get rid of that < and that's one error gone
Also on line 304, "cursor: hand;" is incorrect, hand doesn't exist.
Anyway, I have no idea why it's not working. Could you set Joomla to maximum error reporting and check your error_log file for recent errors (or see if there are any errors at the top of the article page)? Also, it will help if you set it to modern for the time being - the JQ templates are very buggy and need to be improved.