sim.plified.com

I am making the switch to Magento.  In the process I'm sure I'll be learning a lot.  I'm going to be posting what I learn here for a couple of reasons:

1. for my own documentation, so I can look back and see what I did
2. for your instruction, if you run into the same problem I did I hope this helps.

Custom.css is not included by default.

Add the following line to your page.xml

<action method="addCss"><stylesheet>css/custom.css</stylesheet></action>

Then you will need to update your cache

Go to the Admin.  Click System >> Cache Management.  Select "Refresh" from the list and click save in the upper right. 

At this point, any changes you see in custom should start appearing in you site.