After I deployed my blog to Amazon S3, I realized that there was no CSS applied to the pages. In Octopress, the look and feel of website is managed by stylesheets/screen.css. It was fine in rake preview but not on the S3 bucket. I looked around for a few hours to no avail. There was one other person who had the same issue on [stackoverflow] stackoverflowlink but no answers. Relevant [xkcd] xkcdlink:

Wisdom of the Ancients

I finally found my answer. There are other static websites out there so I removed Octopress from my search terms (facepalm! I got my first MSc. in query expansion). This [stackoverflow answer] stackoverflowlink2 sent me to [Adam Wilcox's website] adamwilcoxlink and saved the day. Thanks Adam.

Simple fix, go to Amazon S3 bucket web interface. Find stylesheets/screen.css. Go to metadata tab and change content-type to text/css. This has to be repeated every time screen.css is updated (unless I can find how to do this with S3cmd). Usually this is not the case, when I generate my blog again I can see the following indicating that screen.css is not changed (unless you change the theme?):

root@kali:~/Desktop/octopress# rake generate
## Generating Site with Jekyll
identical source/stylesheets/screen.css
Configuration from /root/Desktop/octopress/_config.yml
Building site: source -> public
Successfully generated site: source -> public