Ok, it's probably a bit premature, but I thought while we were all happily bashing each others skins I might as well contribute a bit.
As Jason, I do (well, did) not have too much experience regarding skinning, always gave it a wide berth. But since my skin of choice is not very well maintained any more, I finally created my own. For this I also used Daniels manual, which is excellent. So, kudos Daniel. Remind me to get you a beer should we ever meet. Since I am rather lazy and also have some more plans with this skin, I utilized Twitter's Bootstrap framework which worked great. It allowed me to throw it all together in a few evenings last week. No CSS tweaking needed, thank you very much. To do this I created two minimal extensions, one for the Bootstrap framework itself[1], one for a php LESS compiler [2]. Out came a skin with horizontal menus with dropdowns/dropups for the sidebar (above the article) and toolbar and language links (below). Alas, I don't have a working wiki to show off, but have a look at the screenshots at [0]. Next steps: * Improve the Bootstrap extension to load stuff selectively * clean up the skin code and refactor stuff into methods * leverage Bootstrap and the less compiler to allow for changing the appearance of the skin; e.g. the colors (Anybody wondered about the name of the skin?) Cheers, Stephan [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Chameleon [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Bootstrap [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Less _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
