MediaWiki talk:Monaco-sidebar

Monaco first draft
Hi all,

I've completed a test run of customizing the colors and menus in Monaco to look more like what you've presented in Monobook, with background colors of neutral gray. The screenshot is large; please click the image here, then click on the one on the image description page to see it full size.

For now, I've just copied your Monobook menu to top level items on the Monaco menu:


 * Creatures Wiki Homepage
 * Category view
 * Recent changes
 * Random page
 * Wiki Guidelines
 * Help
 * Forum

"Recent Changes", "Random page" and "Help" are normally the first three items in the two-column "Toolbox" section under the main menu, and that's where anyone visiting from another Wikia wiki will expect to find them. I've left them there for the moment so you can judge for yourselves where you would like them to go, so they're currently duplicated on both menus.

Everything else from the Monobook toolbox has been copied to this toolbox as well, although some of the link titles are wrapping because they're a little long for this space; that can be obviously be improved once we know for sure what you want where. Note some of the less-commonly used toolbox items, like "what links here" and "related changes" are displayed at the bottom of the page in Monaco; you can choose how important it is to also have them on the sidebar.

If you'd like to give these modifications a test run, you can copy code from my userspace to yours, without the changes being displayed for other users:


 * Copy User:CatherineMunro/Monaco-sidebar to Special:Mypage/Monaco-sidebar and
 * Copy User:CatherineMunro/Monaco-toolbox to Special:Mypage/Monaco-toolbox and
 * Copy User:CatherineMunro/monaco.css to Special:Mypage/monaco.css and choose "Monaco Sapphire" in the skin tab at Special:Preferences to see the gray skin.

As always, elements of the display are very malleable, so if there's a particular bit that's bugging you, let us know -- there's most likely a way to fix it.

Please let us know what you think! — Catherine (talk) 23:22, September 30, 2009 (UTC)