Follow these directions to create the CSS folder and styles.css file.

1. In Visual Studio, on the right (solution explorer) hover over the name of our site, right-click and select Add > New Folder
2. Name the new folder CSS
3. With the CSS folder highlighted press Ctrl + Shift + A (or right click and select Add > New Item)
4. In the Add New Item pop-up box, select Style Sheet. Name the style sheet (ex. styles.css).  Click Add.
5. The top menu of Visual Studio should now have a styes.css tab. 

For the purpose of this demonstration, add the following to the styles.css tab.

.text-style {
    font-size: 16px;
    color: #ddd;
    font-weight: 600;
}

Follow these directions to apply the text-style CSS to some text on your site.

1. On a page which you want to use CSS, add the following to the HEAD.

<link href="css/styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" />

2. Add text-style to a div.

<div class="text-style">This is a test</div>