Battlestar Wiki talk:Think Tank/CSS Layout

I don't understand; what is this and where can I see an example? --The Merovingian ^{(C - E)} 18:09, 10 July 2006 (CDT)

The most basic define is: Cascading Style Sheets. Language used to describe how an HTML document should be formatted. So all you would have to do is:

{| class="infobox"
|-
| This is an info box...
|}

and the "CSS File" has an "infobox" define with different style parameters. So you don't have to know CSS, all you have to do is the "class". Also the CSS "package" includes a design update of some of the elemsnts of the "layout". Like the Left navagation area, default colors, etc, etc. --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 18:17, 10 July 2006 (CDT)

Well okay, but what I see on the Hangar Bay thing doesn't look like a massive redesign: am I looking at the right thing?--The Merovingian ^{(C - E)} 18:43, 10 July 2006 (CDT)

Look at the footer, the left navagation (the icons will not show because it's not on the main "root" yet. The Yellow links where "My Talk" is. The Yellow Tabs. The Editing and New Article Creation look different. The Prefences look different. Red no longer exists, unless it's a non created page. Stuff like that. There are very few artiles that have been created, but there are no images on that wiki.

Alot of the changes you can not see unless you create a dummy account on the Hangerbay. --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 19:53, 10 July 2006 (CDT)

I have two major problems here.

I'm personally quite fond of monobook, and I don't care for the redesign featured at the hangar bay; and although an intense design critique could improve it, I don't think it's worth our energy. The leads to my second point:
Monobook, and other projects which we inherit from the MediaWiki project, are worked on and approved by large groups with more design sense, creativity, and enthusiasm than we can ever hope to muster on our small corner of the internet. To think otherwise strikes me as hubris. This is one of those situations where I vastly prefer deferring to other experts rather than trying to do something ourselves.

--Peter Farago 19:56, 10 July 2006 (CDT)

I agree. I like what we already have, and it would be a lot of energy for a comparatively minor change. --The Merovingian ^{(C - E)} 19:59, 10 July 2006 (CDT)

Forget to mention... there is a second skin that is int he Monobook colors with the same design. --Shane ^{(T - C - E)} 20:06, 10 July 2006 (CDT)