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[dpchap015 Friend dpchap015Join date: September 2011Posts: 300Downloads:75Uploads:57 Thanks: 1 Thanked: 24 times in 1 posts]

#183432

i went through the help links regarding the bootstrap and LESS
(http://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/user-guide-ja-mero-template-for-joomla-3-0/
http://lesscss.org/
etc.)
but i have a few questions using MERO template as i am new to this bootstrap and LESS
my questions
1) what do you recommend a) development using LESS or b) development using css
2) Enable Compress CSS: how does this help.? or it doesn’t? (in case i enable this compression feature, while editing will have to edit some different _.mini.css files or the regular .css)
3) Compile LESS to CSS: how does this help? (i suppose this is related to my 1st question)
4) As i got to know that LESS is compiled to CSS, so once the development is done, is it necessary to switch to CSS only.
5) in the templates/ja_mero/css/themes/ there are some extra themes (red, orange, green and demo are additional), but these don’t show up anywhere in the template settings.
6) If i am not getting this wrong, Using LESS and editing the .less files after compilation will alter the CSS files that are there in ../templates/ja_mero/css/ directory, so while developing if i am using LESS, any changes made to suppose .logo-a{ } property will be saved to the the template.css in ../templates/ja_mero/css/ and the desired site will be there.

Sorry to bother JA Support with these many questions, but help is needed to better understand how JA is working out towards Joomla 3.0
🙂
Thanks

[Stork11 Friend Stork11Join date: March 2011Posts: 2273Downloads:0Uploads:142 Thanks: 55 Thanked: 431 times in 393 posts]

#477614

Hello dpchap015,

As on lesscss.org, LESS extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions. It helps develop, maintain stylesheet code quicker.

If you compress CSS, your site will load your CSS file quicker. It’ll save your bandwidth.

You should compile LESS to CSS on server-side for loading site quicker. It won’t need waiting time to compile LESS to CSS on client-side by using less.js file.

When you edit something in LESS files, you need to re-compile them to CSS files.

“red, orange, green and demo” files in “templates/ja_mero/css/themes/” are garbage data, you can delete them.

Regards.

[dpchap015 Friend dpchap015Join date: September 2011Posts: 300Downloads:75Uploads:57 Thanks: 1 Thanked: 24 times in 1 posts]

#477637

<em>@Stork11 352345 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hello dpchap015,

As on lesscss.org, LESS extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions. It helps develop, maintain stylesheet code quicker.

If you compress CSS, your site will load your CSS file quicker. It’ll save your bandwidth.

You should compile LESS to CSS on server-side for loading site quicker. It won’t need waiting time to compile LESS to CSS on client-side by using less.js file.

When you edit something in LESS files, you need to re-compile them to CSS files.

“red, orange, green and demo” files in “templates/ja_mero/css/themes/” are garbage data, you can delete them.

Regards.</blockquote>

Thanks for the help @stork11 🙂

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