Hi Shirley My recommendations are: 1.Re-skin using the Foreground skin. The Foreground skin is based on the Foundation Framework, which is basically a whole set of pre-packaged css to make page design faster and more responsive. It makes it very, very easy to add columns per page and have those columns display differently based on the device seeing them. 2. Standard way to display PDFs inline would be the PDFHander. Another way would be to use the GoogleViewer widget from either the Widgets or Widgetframework extensions and in the template use the {{filepath: }} function. Example from the Widgetframework extension: Template: {{GoogleViewer:url={{filepath:{{{PDF NAME}}} }} }} Template used: {{Name of Template |PDF NAME= }} If you're using Semantic Mediawiki and edit via Semantic Forms you can add the PDF right in the page and the user sees none of this. This method also works to show Microsoft Word Docs, which is why I went with this method. 3.Mediawiki is very hard to limit access, but try extension: Lockdown. I combined it with SemanticACL, which is mostly likely the least known extension for write and visibility access control, but I find it to be highly effective. Or if you just need to hide certain categories just write __HIDDENCAT__ in the category page and it won't show up in the list of categories on the page being edited. 4.Admin Links, I think is the easiest extension for editing the side bar(or the top bar if you're using the Foreground skin). 5. You can define your own Navigation Bar in the Mediawiki Common.css, but that's a pain. For HeaderTabs you can try extension:HeaderTabs. But the build in HeaderTabs in the Foreground are the best HeaderTabs I've seen in the Mediawiki Universe. Additionally in the Foreground Skin you can create Tabs like a Navigation Bar. Anyways those are my quick suggestions. Chris Tharp Sent from my iPad On May 10, 2014, at 5:19 AM, Shirley Hicks <shirley(a)velochicdesign.com> wrote:

On 2014-05-15, 1:05 PM, Shirley Hicks wrote: This is the base technique for creating a child/sub-skin that just adds some additional CSS. http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/28/mediawiki-subskin-tutorial/ If you have a bit of understanding how the skinning system works that can be expanded to support some other tweaks. ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]