In order to view changes that have made to your skin's design, you need to make a few changes to MediaWiki. We need to inform MediaWiki that we want to view the wiki's content using a different skin from the default, that is, MonoBook.
You will need to create a new directory in the skins
directory, such as skins/yourskinname/
, within your MediaWiki installation directory, where yourskinname
is the name of your new MediaWiki skin.
To keep things simple, we will call our new skin jazzmeet
, and store it in the skins/jazzmeet/ directory
. The primary Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) file for each skin is usually in this skin
directory and is known as main.css
. But it can be changed in the header of your skin's PHP template. For example, the CSS file for our new skin should be located at skins/jazzmeet/main.css
within our wiki's installation directory.