In the default theme I want to change the font-size and font-family of album description text in index.php that is displayed by this function printAlbumDesc(). I'm using light.css. I added this to light.css

.albumdesc p {font-size:16px; font-family: Georgia, serif;}

But I could see no change. Please help.

Try putting your line all the way at the end of the light.css file and see if that works.
(the nature of CSS is that the last call wins ;-))

If that doesn't work, you can upload your .css file and I will be happy to take a look at it =)

@csbutler...thanks for offering to help....i found another way to solve the problem. I wrote some attributes for class zp_uneditable_album_desc and my problem was resolved. Wonder if it was the best way to do it or not but it worked.