Alternatively, you can hack up a table-based layout for MediaWiki. I did this for our MediaWiki based Intranet & it took all of a couple of hours to deconstruct monobook & rebuild as nested tables - from there changes were trivial.

Al.

-----Original Message----- From: Jan Steinman [mailto:Jan@Bytesmiths.com] Sent: Monday, 23 May 2005 9:09 a.m. To: Thomas Tschoellitsch; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] how to looks of the front page

On 22 May 2005, at 13:48, Thomas Tschoellitsch wrote:

I'm looking for a way to customize the front page in the following ways:

• replace contents of the navigation bit on the left
• change/remove background image
• change image in the upper left corner to one that stretches across

the whole page

It sounds like what I've done with http://www.IslandSeeds.org .

It wasn't trivial. Some of the monobook CSS elements have absolute positioning that I had to change to relative.

I can send you the .css file if you like.

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