New skin goes live 7 March 2006
Posted by Zach in meta, technical difficulties, visuals.trackback
So I just finished version 1 of the new skin, and put it on the site. Yay!
Funny thing is, it’s working in Firefox, but not Safari or IE (all Mac).
Even stranger, Safari and IE are using the previous skin… but the previous skin only existed on the page MediaWiki:Monobook.css, and that page now has the new skin on it. So I don’t know why that’s happening – it’s like they’re intentionally looking in the history of that page and getting the older version, just to piss me off.
So, very helpful would be to know for whom the skin is working. It should look someting like this.
Some known bugs:
- Banner ends and dark green begins if browser window is wider than 1024px
- Funny business on the personal links if you hover the cursor at the bottom of them
- Color of gardener fellow isn’t exactly the same as the color of the main content area
- I meant to give the heading styles one last touch-up, since the current color scheme is different from the one I was using when I designed them, but I’ll do that later.
Unfortunately, my computer broke an hour ago (AGAIN). So I can’t really fix these bugs or other ones until who knows when…
Update:
It seems to be working in Safari, and mostly working in IE, except that the sidebar is beginning at the top of the page instead of below the banner. So the top group of sidebar links are on top of the banner. Annoying, but that seems like a smaller problem. I’ll try to fix that and other bugs this weekend.
Yeah, it’s looking pretty sickly in Safari- and here’s where I think it’s breaking:
Note the last line. there. where it imports MediaWiki:monobook.css ? I’d need to spend more time figuring it out.
m0nkyman, where are you finding that code? As I understand it (I may be wrong), the final style sheet comes from /skins/monobook/main.css + MediaWiki:Monobook.css (+ user stylesheets if any), and I can’t find that code anywhere in there.
(Note for other readers: the code he wrote isn’t showing up here, but it did in the email notification I got, so I’m attempting to get it to show up here:)
Zach I liked the old site much better. Your site no longer has that wiki look and feel. Don’t get me wrong I like the new banner, but this all-inclusive green is just too garish and is just not representative of a proper wiki that one would go to for unbiased and concise information about veganism.