Wikiable scribble

gumax_link_navigation.css

• – web site link and navigation style
• Header
• – login Tools
• – navgation menu style
  Navigation bar on the top, can change text and background color
• Main content
• —- Navigation
• —- new link style
• —- internal and external link style
• —- internal link navigation style
• —- external link navigation style
• —- internal and external active link style
• Navigation
• Footer
• – content Actions
  Links on the footer, can change text and background color
• – personal Tools
• – gumax-footer
• Table pager
• The end

gumax_template.css

• Basic Structure
• – Setting for the Website: font style, font size
• —- content width, excluding shadow
• —- main content style
  Lines drawn round content at the sides
• —- content actions
  footer background color

gumax_main.css

• web site link and navigation style
  – Your customization: un-comment lines according to your needs
• header size
• page size
• The end
  

You can change the Logo of the wiki by altering the $wgLogo variable in LocalSettings.php to the name of the image you want to use as a logo.

Please note that this logo should be placed in the /skins/common/images/ folder.

You can change the icon that is displayed in the address bar of your browser by changing a value in the /includes/Skin.php. Change the line from:

‘href’ => ‘/favicon.ico’ to ‘href’ => ‘/path/to/your/favicon.ico’.

You can create a skin all by yourself by following the steps provided below:

1. Go to your mediawiki directory;
2. Copy the monobook directory and name it with the name of your skin, e.g: mygepskin;
3. Copy the MonoBook.php file and name it with the name of your skin, e.g: MyGepSkin.php;
4. Edit MyGepSkin.php and change the class name to SkinMyGepSkin, e.g: class SkinMyGepSkin extends SkinTemplate;
5. In MyGepSkin.php, change make the other class to have your skin name together with the word Template, e.g: class MyGepSkinTemplate extends QuickTemplate;
6. In MyGepSkin.php, make $this->skinname to have a string value of your skin name, e.g: ‘mygepskin’;
7. In MyGepSkin.php, make $this->stylename to have a string value of your skin name, e.g: ‘mygepskin’;
8. In MyGepSkin.php, make $this->template to have a string value of your skin name properly capitalised with the word Template, e.g: ‘MyGepSkinTemplate’;
9. In your mygepskin directory edit the image and CSS files;
10. Edit and customise MyGepSkin.php as you please;
11. In LocalSettings.php set $wgDefaultSkin = ‘mygepskin’.

    ref:http://www.ehartwell.com/TechNotes/FrontPageWithMediaWiki.htm