in template have this feature of user info in the sidebar.
                     looks good, so adding it and enhancing with notifications -->
        
                <!-- main notification links are placed inside of .sidebar-nav -->
                <ul class="sidebar-nav">
                    <li class="">
                        <!-- an example of nested submenu. basic bootstrap collapse component -->
                        <a href="#sidebar-dashboard" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#sidebar">
     