• when creating a child theme of presentation-lite (or any other theme for that matter), use the technique outlined in this article if you want to call in both the parent and child style sheets in the child theme and eliminate the use of the @import function. This allows my theme to run quite nicely in IE8, I guess if you do not worry about IE8, then using this method is not as critical. However, this method does not load the CSS styles in an order that loads the child style sheet last. If you want to be able to change any of the previous CSS style code, then you must load the child style CSS file last.

    Chris Coyier just wrote an article on his website css-tricks that uses the WordPress plugin called “minqueue”. I tried this and it works nicely to minify and order the CSS files in the order that you want them. If you only include the child theme style.css file in the minqueue input, then that file is last in order of all of the CSS files. Another solution found to my problem,

    Al

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