Forum:Monobook Theme – Revisited

Roughly seven months ago we implemented a monobook them to the site. While everything worked out great, there were a few things that just did not work out well.

I had wanted to fix a minor little thing, which was the interlanguage links showing as blue on the green sidebar background when the rest of the links were the monaco yellow. However, I decided "What if I fixed a few other things?" And so I did, and it came out pretty nice.

Changes

 * Content background is now a full white.
 * Visited links are purple!
 * External links are a slightly lighter blue.
 * When you hover over a link it underlines.
 * It's not fixed width any longer.
 * The sidebar header has a yellow background.
 * Interlanguage links are yellow!
 * Sidebar is three bordered and appears as if it's "connected" to the page.
 * Special:SpecialPages has yellow backgrounds on the header.
 * Save, Preview, Show Changes, Go, and Search buttons are now a black gradient.
 * Category boxes have a triforce on them.

There is really no harm in changing our skin again, only gain. I personally feel it gives us a cleaner, more professional look.

The would be some images (the triforce image) that we would have to upload to Zeldapedia, but other than that we don't need much.

I've also added rounded borders to the side of the content page.

I've also changed the sidebar around a bit, so that the search is in the sidebar and is the first entry in the sidebar. Due to the lenghth of our sidebar, I think it would be beneficial to change it to the location it is at on my test wiki. So that would be a change from:
 * Content Navigation
 * mainpage|Main Page
 * Special:Allpages|Content (A-Z)
 * category:Games|Games
 * category:Characters|Characters
 * category:Enemies|Enemies
 * category:Locations|Locations
 * category:Races|Races
 * category:Items|Items
 * category:Weapons|Weapons
 * category:Music|Music
 * recentchanges-url|recentchanges
 * randompage-url|randompage
 * SEARCH
 * Main series

the current situation of the sidebar, to the following:
 * SEARCH
 * Content Navigation
 * mainpage|Main Page
 * Special:Allpages|Content (A-Z)
 * category:Games|Games
 * category:Characters|Characters
 * category:Enemies|Enemies
 * category:Locations|Locations
 * category:Races|Races
 * category:Items|Items
 * category:Weapons|Weapons
 * category:Music|Music
 * recentchanges-url|recentchanges
 * randompage-url|randompage
 * Main series

So yeah, opinions, likes, dislikes, feedback? –  Jä zz  i  00:42, November 28, 2011 (UTC)