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MEDIAWIKI THEMES HOW TO
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MEDIAWIKI THEMES CODE

If you need a geek to ask, feel free to contact me.

MEDIAWIKI THEMES CODE

At least I think so, and its my site, so blah! And while I’m on the subject of accepting criticism, now is the time to get friends, families and geeks to look at this and give you feedback, before you spend hours putting it in code and everyone hates it. Here is my first design for the new MedRevise: (If you don’t understand this, you’ll get it in the next step). Put in text and everything, and try to have all the text on a separate layer, so you can show the layout later without it. Get designing, and put in all the elements you think you need. Photoshop isn’t really ideal here, lacking many of the measurement, image optimisation and slicing options that Fireworks has. Get yourself a good web graphics program. Once you have a good idea, you can start… Once you have really thought it out, get a piece of paper, and start sketching out some ideas, taking into account all your stuff above. Examples are menus, footer tags and content divs. This information is usually of different sizes and lengths, in which case you will need to have an expandable or scrolling area for this information.

What will code put in? Database driven sites such as a wiki will need to import information.

If its aimed at geeks, you maybe can play with the appearance more.

Who will use it? Is it going to be aimed at people new to the web, in which case it needs to be very clear and understandable.

What is your website for? If there is a lot of information, you need to give prevalence to the content section, if there are lots of sections, maybe the menu needs extra prominence.

There are four key stages to making any website: Go to the amazing w3schools website for tutorials on these basics.

MEDIAWIKI THEMES HOW TO

I am not going to explain how a div works, how to use CSS or much of that. I warn you, this is aimed at an intermediate level. So I’m going to give it a go, and I’ll explain it to you as I go. The tutorials out there are sparse at least. And there aren’t many good tutorials on doing it yourself. Now, your problem is that there are only so many ready made themes for MediaWiki.

MEDIAWIKI THEMES SOFTWARE

Make your own Mediawiki themeĮver thought it would be nice/useful to have your own wiki? There are lots of different bits of software out there for running a wiki, but the big one is MediaWiki – the same one used by Wikipedia. But the first three sections still have some value: Planning, Designing and Layout – so I thought I would publish it anyway. Since then, there have been like 7 new major versions, and everything in “Code” I’ve written is hopelessly out of date. It was a big learning process, and I decided to share my knowledge… Unfortunately, 5 years ago, I stopped writing this how-to halfway through. I’ve been using it for MedRevise since 2007.Īfter 3 years of using a hacked up version of someone else’s theme, I decided to make my own theme.