smaller & nicer select with bootstrap.css
You can use the jQuery plugin bootstrap-select:
https://developer.snapappointments.com/bootstrap-select/
It will turn your select into a bootstrap button dropdown
A bit late but maybe this can help http://blog.iamjamoy.com/docs/select.html
or this http://ivaynberg.github.com/select2/
The first one doesn´t work on IE, if you can fix it please provide.