diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1b35dd8036
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "src/tixlbase/static/bootstrap"]
+	path = src/tixlbase/static/bootstrap
+	url = https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap.git
diff --git a/doc/development/setup.rst b/doc/development/setup.rst
index 8bcb0b07ed..86fd2fdfa1 100644
--- a/doc/development/setup.rst
+++ b/doc/development/setup.rst
@@ -3,11 +3,18 @@ The development setup
 
 Obtain a copy of the source code
 --------------------------------
-Just clone our git repository::
+Just clone our git repository including its submodules::
 
-    git clone https://github.com/tixl/tixl.git
+    git clone --recursive https://github.com/tixl/tixl.git 
     cd tixl/
 
+Dependencies
+------------
+* Python 3.4 or newer
+* ``pip`` for Python 3
+* ``git``
+* ``lessc`` (Debian package: ``node-less``)
+
 Your local python environment
 -----------------------------
 
diff --git a/src/.gitignore b/src/.gitignore
index 61d9f80265..6bfabcc70c 100644
--- a/src/.gitignore
+++ b/src/.gitignore
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@
 *~
 .ropeproject
 __pycache__/
+_static/
diff --git a/src/requirements.txt b/src/requirements.txt
index 4cba13667d..bbcb440316 100644
--- a/src/requirements.txt
+++ b/src/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 Django>=1.7
+django-compressor
+BeautifulSoup4
+html5lib
+slimit
+lxml
 pyflakes
 pep8
 pep8-naming
diff --git a/src/setup.cfg b/src/setup.cfg
index ec50166d36..ff9ae58768 100644
--- a/src/setup.cfg
+++ b/src/setup.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [flake8]
 ignore = E128
 max-line-length = 160
-exclude = tests,migrations,.ropeproject
+exclude = tests,migrations,.ropeproject,static
 max-complexity = 12
diff --git a/src/tixl/settings.py b/src/tixl/settings.py
index 2ed0090682..3060dbbbf3 100644
--- a/src/tixl/settings.py
+++ b/src/tixl/settings.py
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = (
     'tixlbase',
     'tixlcontrol',
     'tixlpresale',
+    'compressor',
 )
 
 MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
@@ -92,6 +93,24 @@ LOGIN_URL_CONTROL = '/control/login'
 
 STATIC_URL = '/static/'
 
+STATIC_ROOT = '_static'
+
+STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
+    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
+    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
+    'compressor.finders.CompressorFinder',
+)
+
+COMPRESS_PRECOMPILERS = (
+    ('text/less', 'lessc {infile} {outfile}'),
+)
+
+COMPRESS_CSS_FILTERS = (
+    'compressor.filters.css_default.CssAbsoluteFilter',
+    'compressor.filters.cssmin.CSSMinFilter',
+)
+
+
 try:
     from local_settings import *
 except ImportError:
diff --git a/src/tixl/urls.py b/src/tixl/urls.py
index 1c8cc780b7..82512bd265 100644
--- a/src/tixl/urls.py
+++ b/src/tixl/urls.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
 from django.contrib import admin
+from django.conf import settings
 
 import tixlcontrol.urls
 
@@ -8,3 +9,8 @@ urlpatterns = patterns('',
     url(r'^control/', include(tixlcontrol.urls, namespace='control')),
     url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
 )
+
+if settings.DEBUG:
+    urlpatterns += patterns('django.contrib.staticfiles.views',
+        url(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'serve'),
+    )
diff --git a/src/tixlbase/static/bootstrap b/src/tixlbase/static/bootstrap
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000..97027a2f6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/tixlbase/static/bootstrap
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 97027a2f6fad00c4d74fbef5aef6cccb179f8229