Having trouble overriding basic theme defaults for link color

[eolesinski]

I am trying to experiment with changing some of the theme defaults to add an additional layer of customization to my website. I am starting out simple by reading through the Stylesheets portion of the documentation.

I started out by trying one of the first examples, to change the link-color default. I followed the instructions listed on the documentation by first locating the main.scss file in my repo and then adding the line link-color: red; to the top of the file (making sure to insert it above the @import lines). However, this did not seem to work. After adding this code, the default link color did not seem to change when I reloaded the site a few minutes later.

I am not sure what I am doing wrong here. I have seen a few references to others having similar issues online, but I am a novice when it comes to Jekyll and am still trying to learn so many of the comments/solutions seem fairly complicated.

Am I doing something wrong here or is there a simple solution? It seems like just adding the new line of code at the top of the file does not work.