Stylesheet changes not having any effect

[lewisasding]

Problem: Stylesheet editing fails to change background colour of my website, or introduce a pattern. Failure also to introduce an image into the center box.

Zen Cart 1.3.7 Server Host www.example.com/ Server OS: Windows NT
Database Host: Local Host/ Database MySQL 4.1.14-nt
PHP Version: 5.0.5/ HTTP Server: Apache/2.0.54(Win32)
NotePad was used to carry out editing.

I wish to change the color of my website background. The colour was #e5edf5 an egg shell blue. I typed in #FF0000; (see below). The change has not taken effect when I log on to my website.

I then noticed a forum tutorial which demonstrated how to place an image in the centre of the main page (centerBoxWrapper). This I had been unable to do using Define Pages Editor and the HTMLarea button, then selecting define_main_page.php. But again no joy, that did’nt work either.

Pathways
Computer>WINDOWS(C:)>Program Files (x86)>xampp>htdocs>store>includes>templates>classic>css>Stylesheet.css

Computer>WINDOWS(C:)>Program Files (x86)>xampp>htdocs>store>includes>templates>classic>images>background_flowers.jp g

/**
* Main CSS Stylesheet
*
* @package templateSystem
* @copyright Copyright 2003-2006 Zen Cart Development Team
* @copyright Portions Copyright 2003 osCommerce
* @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
* @version $Id: stylesheet.css 5349 2006-12-22 20:34:40Z birdbrain $



body {
margin: 0;
font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 62.5%;
color: #000000;
background-color: #FF0000;
background-image: url(../images/background_flowers.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat;
}


.centerBoxWrapper {
border: 1px solid #9a9a9a;
height: 1%;
margin: 1.1em 0;
/* create free space at the bottom of the box in which to display the image */
padding-bottom: 20px;
/* add the image to the boxes background */
background-image: url(../images/background_flowers.jpg);
/* position the image at the bottom and center of the box */
background-position: bottom center;
/* EITHER set the image to not repeat */
background-repeat: no-repeat;

}

I only have the classic template in my setup. So editing the incorrect files seems unlikely. In contradiction it would appear that stylesheet.css is not being used, but somewhere another copy of the stylesheet is running True or False I do not know. Both these additions to the stylesheet are documented in the forums.

I would appreciate any help, advice etc., and I thank you in advance if you can solve this problem.

[kobra]

Are you sure that you are editing the stylesheet for the template that you are using??