Rit wrote:
Hi,
Im new to all this. Im considering using wikimedia to create an interactive
web-art-gallery site.
I have to warn you, MediaWiki is probably not a good fit for a
graphics-intensive or image-oriented site. In particular the way images
and linked and handled is likely unpleasant for what you might need;
though you might be able to set up extensions or hack the behavior.
Ive been looking around but cant seem to find any
really well designed/ cool looking sites that use wikimedia - ie the
interface always looks like wikipedia. Doe this mean I dont have
control over the design of the site? Are there any links/ examples of
sites that use wikimedia/ interactivity and have creative interfaces?
Ultimately most wikis are going to look like a wiki, as they have
similar general requirements. There's a bunch of text in the middle, and
a few menu items around the edges somewhere.
Of course you can change the look to greater or lesser degrees; you can
override or replace the entire style sheet, and can override or replace
the main HTML layout.
A couple off the top of my head which at least don't scream "MonoBook
skin!" to the casual glance:
*
http://developer.mozilla.org/ (fits in well with other mozilla sites)
*
http://mono-project.com/ (not publicly editable)
*
http://wiki.ehow.com/ (ugly IMHO, but different ;)
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)