1) The styles.css file needs to be filled out with your own custom styles. It does not get automatically filled with content (as cool as that would be). I would suggest copying one of the other folders (red or green) and using that as a base.

2) I can’t help that without seeing the site. If you send a link, along with ftp and wordpress login details through our helpdesk system then I’d be happy to take a look

Thanks

1st. I created the styles.css file but there isn’t anything in it. What am I missing?

2nd. , when I created the category for the carousel the only thing that shows on the front page is a question mark (and when I click on it I get the post). I know this isn’t skin related, but I thought I’d throw in the question while I’m typing

I did notice that on my server there seems to be a sub-folder under mimbo-pro called mimbo-pro and I don’t know if this duplication is appropriate or not.

Thanks for any and all help

Personally… my option is more future proof. The problem with the article you link too is that you have to modify the theme to include your custom css file. Sure, it’s a single line change, but this will get annoying if the theme you’re using is updated more than once per week/ month/ year (delete as appropriate).

Currently my method is only available to Mimbo Pro users but it will be included in free themes I release so will be a lot more useful in general then.

Which is truly more “future proof”?