I've removed the reference to css in the html files but if I do a search using the search facility, the returned pages still use css (links.css file) ... is there anything I can do about this? thanks
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Yes, sometimes style sheets can be more trouble than they're worth. You can go into each template and remove
<link rel=stylesheet href="<%build_root_url%>/links.css" type="text/css" title="<%site_title%> style sheet">
And replace it with normal HTML.
Good Luck!