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+Doing development work on the administration interface
+======================================================
+
+The Alaveteli admin interface uses Twitter's Bootstrap project to prettify it.
+
+If you want to work on the CSS, you'll want to use
+[bootstrap-sass](https://github.com/thomas-mcdonald/bootstrap-sass). Do something like:
+
+
+ $ gem install bootstrap-sass
+ $ gem install compass
+ $ compass compile --config .compass/config.rb
+
+The javascript is included in a funky way
+[for reasons explained in this commit](https://github.com/sebbacon/adminbootstraptheme/commit/45a73d53fc9e8f0b728933ff58764bd8d0612dab).
+To change it, edit the coffeescript at
+`lib/view/general/admin.coffee`, and then do something like:
+
+ $ coffee -o /tmp/ -c lib/views/general/admin.coffee
+ $ mv /tmp/admin.js lib/views/general/admin_js.erb
+