linking CSS into django .html file -

i lost in finding out how link external .css file in html template. have read (or @ least tried read) https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/ , still lost. .html file in

c:\users\me\documents\mysite\templates 

and .css file in

c:\users\me\documents\mysite\templates\static\css 

in settings.py, made

static_root = 'c:/users/me/documents/mysite/templates/static' static_url = '/static/' 

in .html file, trying link css doing

<link href="{{ static_url }}css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> 

any idea missing or doing wrong?

static folder must myapp folder @ same level templates folder , views.py