Our wiki's content is now skinned, but there is still a lot of work to be done to style and change the layout of the remaining skin. We need to work on the area around the content block, such as the userbar, the main website navigation, and the links to various tools for manipulating the information on the wiki page. In this chapter, we will cover the following:
Changing your wiki's logo
Styling the wiki's navigation
Styling your wiki's userbar elements, for example, the "log in" and "register" links
Styling your wiki's page option links, for example, 'edit', and 'discussion'
Styling your wiki's toolbox
Altering the search feature
Changing the footer
The area around the main content area is classified by the .portlet class. Beware of excessively styling this, because by default, the class includes the page's userbar, its navigation, and the search facility. We can either change the classes applied to these files in our MediaWiki...