GuildWiki talk:Skin poll

"4: Ooh! A poll! I don't care, I just want to use a poll!"Entrea Sumatae  [Talk]  21:41, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Quartz and especially monaco look fail. --Shadowcrest  21:43, 2 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, massively. Especially since the stuff on the bottom is all broken --Gimmethegepgun 21:44, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Monobook4life.[[Image:Entrea Sumatae.png|Entrea Sumatae]]Entrea Sumatae  [Talk]  21:44, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

How awesome is Monobook? 1:So awesome. 2:SO FUCKING USELESS and creates more problems than solutions. Entrea Sumatae  [Talk]  21:46, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

If it aint broke, dont fix :) Unless it means a massive improvement, and it doesn't! PuppetX 05:57, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

will the big ugly wikia sign from the new skins apear on this one? Cloud dyl  19:13, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Test Drive
I am going to join Felix on this skin test drive, to see if it has any benefits, and to not "knock it til you try it". I chose the Monaco Brick skin to play with. 1 problem I see first off is with the gaming skin. I like the color scheme on that one, but the main page looks horrible in that skin. The 4 colored backgrounds of the sections make my eyes bleed under that skin. Is there anything that can be done about that? Quartz = phail. -- Sk8  (T / C)  19:27, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm using Sapphire, it's the most minimalist imo. Quartz is really awful. [[Image:Felix_Omni_Signature.png]] 19:29, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I would really like to use the gaming skin, because the black background is just like my login page at work. But the pastels are blindingly bright on the main page, and the text isn't visible.  -- [[Image:Isk8.png]] Sk8  (T / C)  19:31, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I do like the way the Monaco skin handles the ad problem. My page looks almost normal under this skin.  Nothing hangs off anymore, and no horrible disruptive gap on the right side anymore. -- [[Image:Isk8.png]] Sk8  (T / C)  19:32, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * /Join Sapphire. Let us see how it works out. --[[Image:OrgXSignature.jpg]] 19:35, 3 April 2008 (UTC)


 * For gaming theme, the quick solution is to specify the font color to be black. It'll fix general readability, but still bad aesthetics. There is a theoretical solution to the aesthetics under Gaming skin, using Javascript intervention so that when it detects the theme is gaming, it alters certain colors.  The other solution is via personal CSS (and define colors using CSS classes).  If enough people are interested, I can organize something that can be easily collaboratively worked upon (the "page look aweful on gaming theme" problem probably affects more than just the main page). -User:PanSola (talk to the [[Image:follower of Lyssa.png]]) 19:47, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Also, everything about color, size, and spacing can be tweaked via the Monaco skin improvement project. The experimental CSS can be edited by everyone collaboratively so we can adjust various aspects of it to be less bad. The only think I ask is not to mess with the advertisements (I'm not gonna interfere with what you do on your personal CSS, but don't put any CSS rules that mess with the ads on the experimental CSS). -User:PanSola (talk to the ) 19:50, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * In all honesty, I can't edit CSS to get myself out of a wet paper bag. I just want the Gamer layout to be tweaked so that the pastel colors aren't horribly bright, and that the white text becomes, visible? -- [[Image:Isk8.png]] Sk8  (T / C)  19:52, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * You can still verbally convey improvement suggestions and I can figure out how to work the CSS to implement it (like take a screenshot and circle something, then say "that thing is too big, make it smaller!"). -User:PanSola (talk to the [[Image:follower of Lyssa.png]]) 20:39, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, as nifty as Monaco is, it seems to be rather laggy for me, and the links are all in different places so I can't find them. Monobook for me, please.[[Image:Entrea Sumatae.png|Entrea Sumatae]]Entrea Sumatae  [Talk]  23:45, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Listen, the classic Wiki look owns. Even if Wikia isn't the Ofiicial Wiki. I'm staying with the Monobook. Besides, it's what I got used to over the years. When I saw RSWiki with Quartz I literally fell off my chair in agony and contempt. Classic skin will stay, I can see it. :D--//Alcedo Storysparrow \\ 19:28, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Monaco isn't too bad, but the tabs being on the wrong side of the page is annoying.[[Image:Entrea Sumatae.png|Entrea Sumatae]]Entrea Sumatae  <font color="#4682b4">[Talk]  19:32, 6 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Monobook isn't technically "the" classic skin/look. When it first came out, many wikipedians hated how everything is different, how the bloated design slowed everything down etc...  Anyways, tabs being on the wrong side has already been fixed in mediawiki:Monaco-common.css, so you might want to try it for 10 minutes and let me know what else you'd like modified. -User:PanSola (talk to the [[Image:follower of Lyssa.png]]) 22:39, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, I've always seen wikis with Monobook, so it's what I'm used to. And I'm using it right now, but the page/talk tabs are still to the right of the article when they should be left of edit.[[Image:Entrea Sumatae.png|Entrea Sumatae]]<font color="#4682b4">Entrea Sumatae  <font color="#4682b4">[Talk]  22:44, 6 April 2008 (UTC)


 * goto mediawiki:monaco-common.css and follow the instructions on the top. The changes need to be manually installed currently. -User:PanSola (talk to the [[Image:follower of Lyssa.png]]) 22:49, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, OK.[[Image:Entrea Sumatae.png|Entrea Sumatae]]<font color="#4682b4">Entrea Sumatae  <font color="#4682b4">[Talk]  22:52, 6 April 2008 (UTC)