On 25/04/05, CheekyGeek <cheekygeek(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hitting "view source" (what would normally be "edit") reveals that this is just a cunning use of table markup, with some . In this case, the author has just used the good old HTML-style markup, but MediaWiki also supports a more wiki-style "pipe markup", which has equivalents for most things. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table Theoretically, the documentation all lives at http://meta.wikimedia.org - start at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents or do a search within that site. It's also worth searching the archives of the mailing lists, by putting site:mail.wikimedia.org with your search terms in Google or wherever. Well, the lists of pages beginning with each letter can be linked to in the style of [[Special:Allpages/A|A]], [[Special:Allpages/B|B]], etc. To make it appear on all pages, you could either manually add it as a template on each one ({{template name}}) or edit the page [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]] (which should then appear at the top of each page) or [[MediaWiki:Tagline]] (which is the "From {{SITENAME}}" text at the top of each page). To find messages like this to customise in whatever way you see fit, take a look at the page [[Special:Allmessages]] on your wiki. HTH, good luck, and happy hacking! :) -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]

On 4/25/05, CheekyGeek <cheekygeek(a)gmail.com> wrote: Also, many wikis use templates in the main page, so that the main page itself is frequently just the "glue". It's also worth noting that auto-columns are not supported in HTML/CSS2, though I believe it's in CSS3 (which is still in the works). I have not looked at that part at all, only saw a mention of it while looking for something else. -- Jamie ------------------------------------------------------------------- http://endeavour.zapto.org/astro73/ Thank you to JosephM for inviting me to Gmail! Have lots of invites. Gmail now has 2GB.