If you want individual products, Categories or CMS pages an individual design / give your own style, can by the involvement of private, done special CSS file. There are both products under Catalog > Manage Products > (Select product) > Design (or design) > Custom Lyout update as well as categories under Catalog > Manage categories >(choose category) > Own design > Custom Layout Update and also with CMS pages under CMS > Pages > (Select page) > Shaping > Layout Update XML the possibility own XML snippets insert. But here you can both own HTML layouts also include your own CSS files.
Thus it is easily possible to create a new CSS and this then involve as desired. To this end, the following code will be used only in the layout update box:
<reference name="head"> <action method="addItem"><type>skin_css</type><name>css / mystyle.css</name><params/></action> </reference>
meinstyle.css is then naturally replaced with the name of your own CSS file. This is then in the folder skin / frontend /[Custom template]/[Custom template]/css stored.
Used in Magento versions 1.7 – 1.9 Comments? Additions? Notes? Gladly!