Talk:Wiki skins

I like that uni skin, it's very tidy. Did you develop that? Are you doing their content management as well? I'm looking around for examples of changing the default design for wikis, for the Azzuro people. We need someone to skin their wiki. --Milan 08:26, 13 Dec 2006 (NZST)

Yes I did develop the skin, but no i'm not interested in doing contract design. However feel free to rip whaterver you want out of it. I just hacked monobook.php. I can send you the source file if you like. --Rob 08:34, 13 Dec 2006 (NZST)

Yeah I would appreciate it if you sent that. A nice example to play with, cheers :-)--Milan 09:04, 13 Dec 2006 (NZST)

OD Skin Availability?

I really love the implementation in the OD 2007 skin, it's really well thought out and elegantly designed. I was hoping you'd have it available as an open source skin to use on my wiki... is that available somewhere?

Thanks.

Hi Dave, good to hear from you :-) The skin is open and we're using it on some other wikis such as www.noconfidence.org.nz and i4cense.org. You can download it from here and unzip into your skins directory (best to use that version since its more suitable for a standard MediaWiki). Note that it doesn't come with a CSS, so you need to add that to the wiki, just make a copy of i4cense.org/MediaWiki:organicdesign.css. If you have any trouble, let me know - if possible with the URL so I can see what's wrong. --nad 09:36, 17 October 2008 (NZDT)

Fantastic! Thanks so much!!

I've been attempting to get the skin to work. I set up a CSS file from the link you included and noticed today that folowing the link is producing the exact same formatting issues I'm coming up with; i.e. no graphics, incorrect tables, etc. I was wondering if you knew what was funky in that CSS code and/or how to go about fixing it?

Thanks again. Dave

Try doing a "hard refresh" of your browser to reload the CSS's (CTRL+SHIFT+refresh). Do you have a URL for the site or is it internal? if internal, you could select "view source" in your browser and email me the source code of a page which isn't working, I may be able to see from that what's wrong? --nad 09:46, 21 October 2008 (NZDT)

Really appreciate the help! The hard reset didn't help, and unfortunately it is an internal site, however I might be able to save you from having to look through the css file. What I did was go to the link you mentioned earlier, i4cense.org/MediaWiki:organicdesign.css. That brought up the css code in a wiki window (I expected it to download the file, I'm not sure if that's an issue or not), I copied the text into a text file, saved it as a .css, changed the directory paths to the ones we're using and attempted to implement the skin. The plan was to get it up and running, then edit it from there once I had a good basis to work from. Unfortunately it's not recognizing any formatting what so ever. I'll be happy to drop you an e-mail, but I didn't find your address on your profile page... though if it's there and I missed it I'm going to feel like kind of an idiot. :(

It's actually a lot simpler than what you did, just keep all the files that were unzipped unchanged, go to the css article mentioned above, click edit, select and copy the content from the article, then create an article of exactly the same name in your wiki and paste the text in. Note that after changing any css you'll always need to do a hard refresh of the browser to see the changes since a normal page refresh won't reload css's and images. My email address is aran at organicdesign.co.nz --nad 09:55, 22 October 2008 (NZDT)