title: CSS not being applied in Laravel 4
body: <p>I am trying to include CSS with my Laravel 4 project.  The css is in a folder called 'assets' within the 'public' folder.</p>
  
  <p>In my view, I am calling the CSS: </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;html&gt;
  
  &lt;head&gt;
      &lt;meta charset="utf-8"&gt;
      &lt;title&gt;Hello&lt;/title&gt;
      {{ HTML::style('../assets/CSS/style.css') }}
  &lt;/head&gt;
  
  &lt;body&gt;
      &lt;div class="banner-image"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In the CSS file, banner-image is defined as: </p>
  
  <pre><code>.banner-image{background:transparent url('../assets/images/hires_080820-F-5957S-987c.jpg') no-repeat center center;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;background-size:cover; height:800px; min-width: 1200px;}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The page is loading fine, and checking the source, the path is correct for the CSS, but the CSS is not being applied.  Do you know what the issue may be?  </p>