My question is simple: How do I (A) clone the Vector skin and (B) make it so my customized
Vector skin can have custom background and text colors.
I tried using this skin initially:
https://code.google.com/p/darkvector/
Unfortunately, it has graphical errors in my version of MediaWiki (currently 1.19.3), so I
decided it would be better to take my own version of Vector, clone under a different name
(currently DarkVector is the name I'm using), then I planned to make my own version of
darkvector (I was going to change the colors slightly, but I like the version on google
code)
Unfortunately, I'm only really good at editing CSS. I tried editing my clone .php
files, but I either (A) keep screwing up the layout (and the sidebar disappears) or (B) I
get it looking right but all of my edits to the screen.css to change the colors have no
effect.
I'm not sure I know what I doing, so if someone could walk me through what I'd
like to do or could provided me pointers on what I might be getting wrong, I would
appreciate the assistance.