CSS and File Structure

[eluser]PPhunky[/eluser]
Greetings All,
I am new to CodeIgniter. I want to create a style sheets for views. I cannot get the style.css to affect the view. I have the following File Structure. Thanks in advance for the support.. :-)

Here is my | Base Site URL

$config['base_url'] = "http://www.website.com/dev/project/";


here is the link I am trying to use:
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="assets/css/style.css"/>




dev -
Project
application
config
controllers
errors
...
views

Assets
css
images
js

System

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