Getting WSOD, can't view any errors even after editing index.php I've tried entering:

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', TRUE);
ini_set('display_startup_errors', TRUE);


at the beginning of my index.php file (after begin php tag and it hasn't done anything.  When I run cron, it comes back and tells me that everything is ok.

Here's a brief overview of things that have transpired today:


I updated my views modules and made a database backup (i have no idea
how to restore from this, btw) 
I updated to core .24 
I ran cron andfixed errors concerning .htaccess files. I followed this tutorial:
https://drupal.org/SA-CORE-2013-003
I turned off error reporting (cause it's a production server: www.jcoledesign.com is the address)
All hell broke loose.  At first it stopped loading some images, then it stopped loading all CSS, this is likely due to caching
I added the above code to my index.php file
I cleared cache, went back and tried to replace my .htdocs files with something more simplistic and still no go.

I'm running out of ideas and nothing I try from here or google seems to work.


Please help and thanks in advance!
I figured it out!

The .htaccess file in sites/defaults/files/  CAN NOT include Deny from all

The tutorial I referenced earlier mentioned that /temp/.htaccess should have this included, but it didn't say that if you included it in other files that it would crash your site.

As a side note: It would be great if there was a basic tutorial out there for .htaccess files so that I can get an understanding of everything that's going on here without having to spend months/years learning everything else associated with hosting a drupal website completely inside and out.