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 ====== Custom CSS ====== ====== Custom CSS ======
  
-You can modify ​the **css/​custom.css** to design ​the site to your own colours.+You can customise ​the **css/​custom.css** to design your website at your company'​s look and feel.
  
-This stylesheet is loaded at last, which means that you can override any style from there.+This stylesheet is loaded at the very end which means that you can override any styles ​from there.
  
 ===== Bootstrap Based ===== ===== Bootstrap Based =====
-Our site template is mainly based on the industry standart [[http://​getbootstrap.com|Boostrap]] CSS that is used by many major sitesincluding Twitter ​(who created it).+Our website templates are mainly based on the industry standart [[http://​getbootstrap.com|Boostrap]] CSS that are used by major sites including ​[[http://​twitter|Twitter]] who created ​Bootstrap and uses it to display their pages.
  
-One of the main advantage ​of using Bootstrap is that it is fully responsive by default. This means thats pages will automagically ​adapt to any browsers ​page size, including mobiles, tablets and desktop computers.+One of the main advantages ​of using Bootstrap is that it is fully responsive by default. This means that pages will automatically ​adapt to any browser'​s ​page sizes including mobiles, tablets and desktop computers.
  
-Therefore, ​when you design your site, keep in mind to always ​check your pae, with various page width to be sure it is still nicely ​displayed on any devices. ​But if you wish to bypass this functionnalily ala old-school way, you could simply ​set a fixed '​container width' ​in your CSS+Therefore, ​while you design your websiteplease ​keep in mind to check your pages using various page widths making ​sure they are always correctly ​displayed on any of the devices ​listed aboveYou may prefer ​to bypass this functionally,​ going the "old-school" ​way. You would then simply ​need to use a fixed '​container width' ​within ​your CSS template.
  
 ===== Using Bootstrap premade themes ===== ===== Using Bootstrap premade themes =====
-If you'​re ​lazy designing your own CSS, you could start from one of the many bootstrap ​theme available on the web.+If you'​re ​not into designing your own CSS stylesheets, you could start from one of the thousands ​bootstrap ​themes ​available on the web.
  
-You will find some there+You will find some great ones here 
-  * https://​bootswatch.com/ ​some free theme +  * https://​bootswatch.com/ ​Cool free themes. 
-  * https://​wrapbootstrap.com ​some commercials ​themes+  * https://​wrapbootstrap.com ​Nice commercial ​themes.
    
-//BTW be aware that despite we based our template ​on Bootstrap ​one and as you wont be able to alter the page HTML layout, we cannot ​warranty ​that ANY commercial ​template ​will nicely ​adapt to your site.//+//Warning ! Please note that despite ​the fact that we have based our templates ​on Bootstrap and that you won'​t ​be able to alter the HTML page layout, we cannot ​guarantee ​that ALL commercial ​templates ​will fully adapt to your website.//
  
-To quickly test an external Bootstrap theme, you can simply add this to your //​custom.css//​ file at top:+To quickly test an external Bootstrap theme, you can simply add the following ​to your //​custom.css//​ file at the top :
 <code css> <code css>
-/* Import ​a free BootStrap Theme */+/* Import ​superhero ​BootStrap Theme EXTERNALLY from MaxCdn ​*/
  ​@import url("//​maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/​bootswatch/​3.3.2/​superhero/​bootstrap.min.css"​);​  ​@import url("//​maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/​bootswatch/​3.3.2/​superhero/​bootstrap.min.css"​);​
 </​code>​ </​code>​
  
-If you are happy with an external theme, we strongly suggest you to NEVER rely on a call from an external server (except a well established CDN) because in the case it fails to respond, your site will load slowly and be ugly without this css.+If you are pleased ​with an external theme, we strongly suggest ​that you NEVER rely on an external server ​call (except ​for a well established ​[[wp>​Content_delivery_network|CDN]]). If the external server ever happened ​to fail responding, your site would load very slowly and would look real bad without ​the CSS stylesheet. You should therefore copy the CSS (and all of its dependencies) to a subfolder within the CSS directory, perhaps like this 
 +<​code ​css
 +/* Import superhero BootStrap Theme from a LOCAL superhero_theme sub-directory */ 
 + ​@import url("​superhero_theme/​bootstrap.min.css"​);​ 
 +</​code>​ 
 + 
 +===== Adding your own styles ===== 
 +The //​custom.css//​ file can be filled to override any Styles defined either by the Bootstrap CSS or from our own default stylesheets.  
 + 
 +We did our very best to use only Bootstrap blocks, buttons, etc, to comply with all Bootstrap themes. But in some cases, we had to add custom DIVs to implement some layout that where not available within Bootstrap. 
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 +We also did our very best to make each DOM element easely accessible by using various classes and IDs, each of them prefixed by //pvw// and clearly named. We've also tagged the body tag with a pvwBody_XXX id that is unique to each page, allowing you to access each page styles individually. 
 + 
 +If you ever miss a CSS declaration to access a specific DOM element, please feel free to contact us, to suggest new class definitions. 
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