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Using a remote style sheet
A remote style sheet is not located within your template but is located in a network folder or
hosted on an external web server (generally called a CDN).
To add a remote style sheet:
1. Right-click the Stylesheet folder on the Resources pane, and click New Remote
Stylesheet.
2. Enter a name for the file as it appears in the Stylesheet resources. For better
management, it's best to use the same filename as the remote resource.
3. Enter the URL for the remote resource. If the file is located on an external web server, this
must be a full URL, including the http:// or https:// prefix, domain name, path and file name.
If the file is located on your network you can click the Browse button or enter the path and
file name manually. The complete syntax with the "file" protocol is:
file://<host>/<path>. If the host is "localhost", it can be omitted, resulting in
file:///<path>, for example: file:///c:/resources/images/image.jpg.
If the file is located on another server in your network, the path must contain five slashes
after "file:".
Tip
After adding the remote file, you may right-click it and select Download Resource. This
allows you to maintain a central file, from which you can quickly download a copy to your
template without having to copy & paste.
Note that a local copy of a remote resource is a snapshot; it is not automatically kept in
sync with its remote content. You can download the remote resource again to overwrite
the local copy with updated content. If you don't want a local copy to be overwritten you
should rename it before downloading the remote resource again.
There are a few advantages to resources hosted on a CDN:
l These resources are not served by your server, saving on space, bandwidth and
processing.
l Using a popular CDN takes advantage of caching - a client having visited another
website using that same CDN will have the file in cache and not re-download it making
for faster load times for the client.
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