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MediaWiki Skins Design

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MediaWiki Skins Design

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
MediaWiki Skins Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Making Our Case Study 'JazzMeet'


To start altering the look of the JazzMeet wiki, we will begin by altering the style within #content. To make our lives easier, the following colors (in hexadecimal notation) from the JazzMeet concept can be used.

  • Dark brown, #38230C, is used to accentuate the "Meet" in "JazzMeet".

  • Deep red, #8E1425, is used in the "register" bar.

  • Pale beige, #E6E4D8, is used as the background color for the primary content of each page.

  • Mid-tone beige, #D9D5C3, is used as the background color for the right-hand column, which contains the sponsors and advertisements.

  • Darker beige or brown, #BEB798, is used in image borders and for some<h3> level headings.

Content

Filling your wiki page with adequate content is a better way to check whether every element is taken into account when they are being styled. In the process, it is useful to include the following elements:

  • Any one of these headings<h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5>, and<h6> is preferable...