Forum:New New Skin
The new monobook skin looks great! But all Wikia wikis are moving over to the new Monaco as default. That doesn't mean the new monobook can't be used, it can still be a personal preference, but we are helping wikis move to the new skin for the site default. Our designer, Christian has taken your design, and carried it over to Monaco... which gives you the same cool look but with the shiny new skin. To see it, look here. (To see it on pages other than the main page, you need to add "?useskin=monaco&usetheme=custom" to the URL)
I've also been working on a new main page layout today. One of the changes that's happening at the moment, is that we are adding a block of two ads on each main page. It's possible that they won't always show up, but to ensure your main page continues to work properly when they do, you need to update your main page column formatting code with new column tags. These two ads are the only ones you will see if you are logged in, all other pages will be ad free on Monaco for logged in users.
I have started a draft main page with the new tags on Main Page/draft which I hope you can take a look at - it's not quite working yet, I can't see how to get the second column working with the tabs. But I'll be back for another go later today. As you can see, this column is fixed width, so that the ad doesn't push the whole page down.
I hope you'll have a look at these, and let me know how it looks. Thanks -- sannse<staff /> (talk) 11:09, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
- Why the sudden shift to Monaco? Also, I think we scrapped the tabs idea a little while ago in favor of having the entire page layed out. I don't really know how Greenpickle felt about that, but... —Jimbo Jambo
- It's not really sudden, Jimbo Jambo, it's been coming a while. It's just that it's now come to the stage where we are approaching people directly and helping with the transition. I'll have another go at the main page and see if I can change it to be without the tabs - see how that works for everyone (I think it's a good decision by the way, the tabs are nifty, but I didn't realise how they worked when I first looked at the main page) -- sannse<staff /> (talk) 17:14, 16 July 2008 (UTC)