Forum:SH Archive/New Skin

I just logged on and the whole site is different, and I don't like it. It's confusing to me. I want to change it back. Is that a good idea? Because I loved the old skin. Thanks so much! --Gmalek 19:46, October 20, 2010 (UTC)


 * You can go to Special:Preferences and change the skin back to how it was, which is Monaco. Monaco will be removed as an option on November 3rd, though. At that point, the other option you can choose from is Monobook (which you can use now too). - Brandon Rhea Alliance Starbird.svg (talk) 19:49, October 20, 2010 (UTC)

This site works and looks great with the new skin! We were one of the lucky ones, because other Wiki's out there are completely messed up and will have to do a lot of work to look good again. --Willy105 20:35, October 20, 2010 (UTC)


 * Errr... Have you seen the site's logo? "Wookieepedia" in big black letters is sitting right on top of the white-with-black-outline "Wookieepedia". It looks god-awful. And literally half my screen is blank margins, the articles might as well be printed on a bookmark.


 * The site's logo can be updated at will, and the static size allows us to be more accurate and creative on how we layout and design the website, because we won't have to worry about people with different screen resolutions. Sure, there is empty stuff at the edges of the screen, but you can always add graphics to it to make it seem more busy, and since most people use a smaller resolution, it is not as big a problem for everybody else. --Willy105 02:33, October 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * The site now uses only 1/3 of my screen and this is progress? Catering to the lowest common demoniator is better than a site that properly adjusts to fill the available screen space? Edit: Apologies, I did not realize there was a skin available that does adjust properly (I guess I can live with having to register) and that this change was not the choice of Wookieepedia admin.  You guys might want to put some kind of notice on the front page if you're allowed to. --71.225.164.54 00:54, October 22, 2010 (UTC)

Really don't like the new skin. A person goes to the trouble of getting rid of ads and scripts- just to have it all replaced with skin graphics taking up all the space. I agree with last comment- the new page doesn't even use half of my screen. AWFUL. I love Star Wars and Wookieepedia- please go for simplicity, its the content in the articles that's important. Thx
 * It's probably worth noting that we can't really do much in terms of the actual layout, that's how Wikia make us play. If you really can't bear it, do what virtually all the established users have done and use Monobook. We can't do anything much more than that. NAYA   YEN   22:49, October 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * If we could use Monobook as the default skin for all users, we would. But we can't. Wikia are the ones who enabled this skin for all logged out users and there's not a thing the community or admins can do about it except to try and make it as bearable as possible. As Nayayen said, it's worth simply registering an account and switching the skin to Monobook. Xicer9 atgar.svg( Combadge) 23:57, October 20, 2010 (UTC)

For the sake of sanity and ease, I'd like to suggest that this forum not be a place to rant about whether or not the new skin is liked. There are always going to be mixed feelings about it across the community. We should use this forum to report bugs and issues. &mdash; Fiolli  00:37, October 21, 2010 (UTC)
 * FWIW, there are now instructions on how to switch skins. NAYA   YEN   00:59, October 22, 2010 (UTC)

Guys, remember that those old skins will be gone by November....--Willy105 01:23, October 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * Monaco will be gone, but Monobook will be staying. Or at least that's what we've been told.  Master Jonathan New Jedi Order.svg ( Jedi Council Chambers ) 01:35, October 22, 2010 (UTC)

Yes, Monobook will remain. There are no plans to remove that as an option. - Brandon Rhea  (talk) 02:13, October 22, 2010 (UTC)

For some reason, on the new skin, the logo doesn't show at all in IE8, all I see is Wookieepedia in big letters. The logo shows just fine in firefox, though. Mbruno 03:08, October 23, 2010 (UTC)


 * The logo had been a CSS hack, because the wordmark Tm T created was less than the 250x65 size that the theme designer requires. The hack had to be removed because it was causing problems in IE, showing both the big lettered Wookieepedia and the image. I just used the theme designer to upload a larger wordmark, though, so it should have reappeared now. - Brandon Rhea Alliance Starbird.svg (talk) 03:10, October 23, 2010 (UTC)
 * So, how do we view an image full-screen? Or find the URL of an image? Or look at the page details for images? Anytime you click on an image now, it just pops up one of those dumb flash pop-ups. No way of seeing who uploaded it or reading a talk page for it or copying the URL down to paste to a friend. Also, on the front page, the entire thing is filled with advertisements and toolbars by default. You can see the quote of the day, random article links, logo, and search box, and that's all. If the default is staying with this, we'll need to change the front page, won't we? Tony Knightcrawer 22:45, October 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * Firstly, please make new comments at the bottom, rather than randomly in the middle, it makes it easier to find them. There's an icon in the bottom right corner that takes you to the file info page. As for the main page, we can't do very much about the layout. Your best bet is to switch skins. NAYA   YEN   22:56, October 24, 2010 (UTC)