If you find a site you like that is based on Customizr (or even one not based on Customizr), you can use Firebug (or Chrome/Safari developer tools) to see what the site designers did in their CSS file. See this link for a video on Firebug. You can then inspect any element to see what they did to get the effect.
Some more radical changes to layout—with the slider after the features, for example—may have been done with php behind the scenes. But changes to the styling are in CSS and are always there for everyone to see: if your browser can render it then you can see it.
The really neat thing about Firebug is that you can click the CSS tab, look at all the CSS in a child-theme or Custom CSS, and then switch it on/off by clicking to the left of each property declaration. That helps you see bit by bit what each CSS property is doing.
So in the case of the site you like, you can see that the designers stopped the logo floating left (with a float:none;
), then as a result the .navbar-inner
wrapped onto the next line. They then styled the navbar black etc and made it wider using:
.row-fluid .span9 {
width: 95%;
}
However, I don’t agree that this is the best way to make the navbar wider, as using the 'row-fluid .span9
classes is not specific enough and could have significant unintended consequences elsewhere on the site. It’s much better to instead use:
.navbar-wrapper .span9 {
width: 95%;
}
You can find lots of other styling tips in the Customizr FAQ.