What is the optimal place to store CSS files? I'm trying to figure out the best place to keep my one master CSS file in craft.

I had the CSS linked in my template as

link rel="stylesheet" href="../craft/css/master.css"&gt;

But now Blog entries can't get to it, as they are looking in www.domain.com/index.php/blog/craft/css/master.css now.

Is there a better place to put the CSS, or a better way to link to it in templates?
In most cases, the best place to store CSS is in a publicly accessible directly, not managed by Craft at all. Such as:

public/assets/css/master.css


Storing your CSS and other front-end assets outside of Craft reduces the overhead of accessing those files. While Craft allows you to store css files in your Craft templates folder, there is additional overhead to access those files as they need to be processed by Craft.