Hello, Jason. Your skin may be good for promotion, but it is not good for presentation of information: the service menu offupy the most of screen, while only small part of the brouser frame is used for the main text.
I am not so skillful in writing scripts; yet I could not make the ShortURL work, nor even make a workable copy of existing skin "Vector". So, I modify "Vector"; you may look at the result at http://mizugadro.mydns.jp/t
This may give you an idea, how the page should be designed: The most of space is reserved for the original text, and only narrow strips at the top and at the left are occupied by the menu.
On Tue, 21 May 2013, Jason Lewis wrote:
Hello,
Let me start off by introducing myself. My name is Jason Lewis and I'm a developer and (some kind of) designer from Australia. I play a role in the community side of things for a PHP framework called Laravel.
Over the last few days I've developed a skin for the Laravel community wiki that fits in with the overall theme of the other community sites. The idea was to make it blend, but to also keep some sort of wiki "feel" to it. On the surface it looks very fresh but at its core it is still very much Media Wiki. You can check the skin out here: http://wiki.laravel.io
The purpose of this thread is to give you an overview of how I went about skinning Media Wiki from the point of view of someone who has never attempted it before. I've used Media Wiki in the past but never done anything besides changing the default logo.* *During the process of skinning I used the following tutorial as a reference for some of the inner-workings of Media Wiki: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning/Tutorial