Well, when I started my first Yii project, I also put my CSS and JS files in assets. It works but then I found that its not just the right way. Its better to make a separate directory for your CSS file(s).
Also there are some auto generated files in assets, so to avoid mix-up with those and your I prefer to make it separate. Hope you got the point.
The asset folder is automatically generated by Yii based upon your environment so best avoid putting your CSS, images etc inside here. It also best to not commit these folders and files into SVN as they are automatically generated and folder names will differ from your qa/staging/live site to your local site.
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