Hello, I created a child theme for my Magento ver 2.1.8 CE installation. My store is in developer mode. I have created the child theme as instructed in the theme's setup guide and I also used Magento theme docs. In the backend of my store I selected the store, then I cleared cache and static files from the admin. When I check the pub/static/frontend/Mgs/mgsblank_child/en_US directory, the css directory is missing. When I navigate to the site to check the installed child theme, no styles are showing on the site. When I check the head section of the site, I see the url paths of the css files in the pub/static directories, the url's even resolve to the css files, but the styles aren't implemented on the site. Also when I ftp into the server, I do not see the css directory in the pub/static directory.
So I am doing something wrong with my setup. Using other forums, I made sure I had an image file in the media/preview.jpg directory of the child theme, I even copied the web directory from the parent theme into the new child theme. Since I was in developer mode, I cleared cache and static files from the admin panel and then reloaded my website. After I saw that css files were not loading in the frontend, I then used php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy, this didn't work.
What am I doing wrong?
