[Mediawiki-l] customizing MediaWiki's skin (was: newbie questions)

[Jens Ropers]

Hi Manny,

I saw your previous email
>> http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2004-September/ 
>> 001459.html
where you talked about heavily customizing the MediaWiki skin.

Did you get anywhere?

Because I'm trying to do essentially the same thing.
I'm trying to fully transition my website
>> http://www.ropersonline.com
to MediaWiki.
Basically I want to use MediaWiki as a Content Management System. I'm  
aware it's not strictly built for that because there is no access  
control management, but I'd be the sole user anyway. My only point in  
using MediaWiki is to stop writing HTML by hand (too cumbersome) and  
have the MediaWiki-markup and all its features I've grown to like at my  
disposal.

Now I'm essentially trying to get my MediaWiki skin to look pretty much  
exactly like my homepage (see above) looks today. I'd want to hide all  
the "edit", "preferences", etc. links.
Then all I'd need to do to edit my website is to manually type in
>> http://www.ropersonline.com/Special:Userlogin
and login and start working away.

I know it's a daunting task, especially given my comparatively limited  
qualifications, but anyway.

Please let me know how you got on.
Anybody else who's got any pointers/comments -- that's very welcome! :-)

Thanks and regards,
Jens Ropers

There are two types of IT techs: The ones who watch soap operas and the  
ones who watch progress bars.
http://www.ropersonline.com/elmo/#108681741955837683