Activo - Magento Development and POS Integration http://www.activo.com Magento Development. Design. Integration. Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:37:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 How to Properly Add an External JS/CSS file to Magentohttp://www.activo.com/how-to-properly-add-an-external-jscss-file-to-magento/ http://www.activo.com/how-to-properly-add-an-external-jscss-file-to-magento/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:40:29 +0000 Ron Peled http://www.activo.com/?p=509 Magento code snippet showing the proper way to add an external Javascript or CSS file links to your Magento theme's layout files without any additional files or extensions and without any direct template files hacks. This method is simple, easy and works every time.

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