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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

Chapter 6. Adding Decorative Elements

The design of our JazzMeet wiki is preliminarily complete, but we can enhance it in terms of user-friendliness, by adding decorative elements. In this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • The decorative elements you can use in your wiki

  • The techniques you can use in your wiki to draw your visitor's focus both toward elements and away from elements

Decorative Elements

A decorative element is not essential to your wiki's skin, but adds some value to it. This value could give your wiki a certain attitude or a distinctive element over a competitor's wiki, or help your visitors perform some task on your wiki, such as finding the information they are looking for using the search box feature.

When to Use Decorative Elements

It is important to use the decorative elements in your MediaWiki skin sparingly, so as not to detract from the wiki's content, which is why most of your visitors are on your wiki in the first place.

Having said that, a white page with black...