[Mediawiki-l] how long to make a good MW skin?

Brian Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu
Sun Jan 11 06:39:54 UTC 2009


Christensen, I can't recommend this book based on experience, but I can
recommend it based on its existence ;-)
MediaWiki Skins Design
*http://www.packtpub.com/mediawiki-skins-design/book
 *
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Christensen, Courtney <
ChristensenC at battelle.org> wrote:

> Hi WikiMedians,
>
> This question is for any of you who have developed a skin.  I imagine you
> are constantly tweaking your skins, but how long does it take you to make a
> workable one?  I recently had to make a skin from some images made by a
> graphic design shop.  I made it look great, just like the pictures, but I
> forgot a lot of the functional things, like the table padding my users were
> used to or the new class on links to non-existent pages.  I'm thinking skin
> development is a thankless job that requires attention to detail and more
> stamina and persistence than I seem to have.
>
> So give me a yardstick.  How long does it take to develop a well-rounded
> skin on average?
>
>
> Thanks!
> Courtney Christensen
>
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