How do I disable the count (of number of items) that appear on each of the category icons? Since my website is new, its discouraging to customer when they see that there are only a few listed items, so I want to disable that function for now.

@Cephas
This should do that.
#home-cat a .count, .side-cat a em {display:none;}


Thank you very much. How do I use that? Is there a particular place I should paste that code, or do I need to change anything in that line, where do I find it? Please elaborate a bit for me, as I am new. I appreciate your help.

Put that into style.css

What line number (approximate) or subheading under style.css?

ok, I have found it. Thank you very much. It is working now.