README.md

Introduction
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**AdminLTE** -- is a fully responsive admin template. Based on **Bootstrap 3** framework. Highly customizable and easy to use. Fits many screen resolutions from small mobile devices to large desktops. Check out the live preview now and see for yourself. 

**Download & Preview on [Almsaeed Studio](http://almsaeedstudio.com)**

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**AdminLTE** has been carefully coded with clear comments in all of its JS, LESS and HTML files. LESS has been used to increase code customizability.

Installation
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There are multiple ways to install AdminLTE.

Download:
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Download from Github or [visit Almsaeed Studio](http://almsaeedstudio.com) and download the lateset release.

Using The Command Line:
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**Github**

- Fork the repository ([here is the guide](https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/)).
- Clone to your machine ```git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/AdminLTE.git"```

**Bower**

```bower install git://github.com/almasaeed2010/AdminLTE.git```

**Composer**

```composer require "almasaeed2010/adminlte=~2.0"```

Documentation
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Visit the [online documentation](http://almsaeedstudio.com/themes/AdminLTE/documentation/index.html) for the most
updated guide. Information will be added on a weekly basis.

Browser Support
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- IE 9+
- Firefox (latest)
- Chrome (latest)
- Safari (latest)
- Opera (latest)

Contribution
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Contribution are always **welcome and recommended**! Here is how:

- Fork the repository ([here is the guide](https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/)).
- Clone to your machine ```git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/AdminLTE.git"
- Make your changes
- Create a pull request

Contribution Requirements:
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- When you contribute, you agree to give a non-exclusive license to Almsaeed Studio to use that contribution in any context as we (Almsaeed Studio) see appropriate.
- If you use content provided by another party, it must be appropriately licensed using an [open source](http://opensource.org/licenses) license.
- Contributions are only accepted through Github pull requests.
- Finally, contributed code must work in all supported browsers (see above for browser support).

License
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AdminLTE is an open source project by [Almsaeed Studio](http://almsaeedstudio.com) that is licensed under [MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT). Almsaeed Studio
reserves the right to change the license of future releases.

Change log
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**v2.0:**

- Major layout bug fixes
- Change in layout mark up
- Added transitions to the sidebar
- New skins and modified previous skins
- Change in color scheme to a more complementing scheme 
- Added footer support
- Removed pace.js from the main app.js
- Added support for collapsed sidebar as an initial state (add .sidebar-collapse to the body tag)
- Added boxed layout (.layout-boxed)
- Enhanced consistency in padding and margining
- Updated Bootstrap to 3.3.2 
- Fixed navbar dropdown menu on small screens positioning issues.
- Updated Ion Icons to 2.0.0
- Updated FontAwesome to 4.3.0
- Added ChartJS 1.0.1
- Removed iCheck dependency
- Created Dashboard 2.0
- Created new Chat widget (DirectChat)
- Added transitions to DirectChat
- Added contacts pane to DirectChat
- Changed .right-side to .content-wrapper
- Changed .navbar-right to .navbar-custom-menu
- Removed unused files
- Updated lockscreen style (HTML markup changed!)
- Updated Login & Registration pages (HTML markup changed!)
- Updated buttons style.
- Enhanced border-radius consistency
- Added mailbox: inbox, read, and compose pages
- Bootstrap & jQuery are now hosted locally
- Created documentation.

**ver 1.2:**

- Fixed the sidebar scroll issue when using the fixed layout.
- Added [Bootstrap Social Buttons](http://lipis.github.io/bootstrap-social/ "Bootstrap Social") plugin.
- Fixed RequireJS bug. Thanks to [StaticSphere](https://github.com/StaticSphere "github user"). 

**ver 1.1:**

- Added new skin. class: .skin-black
- Added [pace](http://github.hubspot.com/pace/docs/welcome/ "pace") plugin.

Image Credits
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[Pixeden](http://www.pixeden.com/psd-web-elements/flat-responsive-showcase-psd)

[Graphicsfuel](http://www.graphicsfuel.com/2013/02/13-high-resolution-blur-backgrounds/)

[Pickaface](http://pickaface.net/)

[Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/)

Donations
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Donations are **greatly appreciated!**

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