Forum:New Skin

Hi All, as you may have read all Wikia wikis are moving over to the new Monaco as default. You will still be able to use Monobook as a personal choice, this only changes the default that new visitors see unless they log in and choose something different. I've started work on a new skin, based on your custom Monobook. It needs tweaking to get the curvy corners back (that bit is beyond me). So our designer, Christian, will have a look and put that in too. But already you can see how Monaco looks in your colours. 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. 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. As you can see, the change is that the right 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 (talk) 13:05, 22 July 2008 (UTC)