Thanks to help from this group, and the excellent Bootstrap docs, I've put 
together a static site <http://www.fredriley.org.uk/callhull/> which looks 
half-decent on a desktop or laptop. However, it looks dire on mobile 
devices and features get lost. Even if you just narrow the browser window 
on a desktop the top navbar items go walkies. Another problem is that 
drop-down menus on a mobile (for instance in this 
doc<http://www.fredriley.org.uk/callhull/celtic.html>) 
will drop down, but clicking on a dropdown item hits the menu beneath it. 
There are other problems with the site on mobiles, but basically it's not 
usable, and of course with mobiles being so popular this is a problem. 

I have included the Bootstrap responsive CSS file in my pages and used a 
collapsing top navbar, but plainly I need to do more to make the thing 
usable on mobiles so I'd be grateful for tips and pointers. I have read the 
fine 
manual on responsive 
design<http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/scaffolding.html#responsive>though 
that doesn't have much to say. I've used a famous search engine to 
look for "bootstrap responsive 
menus<https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bootstrap+responsive+menus&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a>"
 
but without any conclusive results. There's an intriguing stackoverflow 
question<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9150423/how-do-i-get-the-navigation-to-collapse-into-the-small-icon-for-mobile-devices>which
 might be useful but isn't a whole answer. 

It's getting late in the night, my eyes are hurting, the neurons are 
turning off and the beer is calling, so I can't do any more searching now. 
Is there a guide somewhere to creating responsive menus in Bootstrap so 
that a page degrades gracefully on mobiles? I'm happy to RTFM if I can find 
TFM. And/or, are there any good exemplar sites I can emulate? 

I am familiar with responsive design practice and media queries, though am 
far from an expert. 

Cheers

Fred

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