Forum:Main page and skin changes

Hi, 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. Christain, our designer, has transferred your custom skin to Monaco, and you can see it 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'm a bit worries about the width of the second menu, I think that may be too wide on some resolutions. But I think the other will work well.

I hope you'll have a look at these, and let me know how it looks. Thanks -- sannse (talk) 13:46, 22 July 2008 (UTC)