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We can change the layout of the wiki's new skin. You can use your own classes and ids in your template, but it is better to use MediaWiki's default names for them, because:unlimited hosting
- If others edit your skin's template file or CSS, it will make it easier for them to work out what's going on, if they are familiar with MediaWiki.Seo marketing
- Some class and id names (for example, the navigation list items) are automatically generated by MediaWiki, by default.
- It is more consistent, as the other skins for your wiki are presented with those names. As a result, it is easier to make cross-skin changes.SEO
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[edit] Ordering Elements
As we have used the MonoBook template as the basis for our new skin, the ordering of the elements within the page is not quite right for our JazzMeet skin's layout. search marketing In MonoBook, the ordering within the body is as follows:
- The page's primary content:
- Page title
- Your wiki's tagline
- "New message" notification, if needed
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jump-to-navlinks, to skip to either the wiki's navigation or the search feature - The content itself
- The category links, if any
- The print footer
- The interface:
- Views (for example, edit page, view page history)
- Personal tools (for example, log in, log out, preferences)
- The logo
- Navigation
- Search
- Toolbox
- The wiki's footer
The following order needs to be adopted to produce the layout required for JazzMeet:
- The page's header, which contains the wiki's logo and the personal tools element
- The column content, including links to JazzMeet's sponsors, and the search feature
- The views and navigation elements
- The page's primary content (this remains the same as mentioned earlier)
- Page title
- Your wiki's tagline
- "New message" notification, if needed
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jump-to-navlinks, to skip to either the wiki's navigation or the search feature - The content itself
- The category links, if any
- The print footer
- The toolbox
- The footer
[edit] Content Ordering
Ideally, we want each page's primary content to be as close to the top of the page as possible. This is not only good for the search engines, as they can instantly see what your page is about, but is also better for those who use text-only Internet browsers.physical education degree
[edit] Layouts with CSS
To create the basic two-column layout that is required for JazzMeet's design, we can use the following:
<div id="globalWrapper"> <div id="content"> <!-- main content here --> </div> <div id="column-one"> <!-- column content here --> </div> <div style="clear: both !important;"></div> </div>
By assigning widths to the content and the column divs and making them float left, we can easily create a two-column layout that positions the primary content higher in the page's structure than the content in the column.Life Experience Degree Thus, the CSS would be as follows:
#globalWrapper {
margin: 0 auto; /* centre the layout */
width: 950px;
}
#content {
float: left;
width: 710px;
}
#column-one {
float: left;
width: 215px;
}
| More CSS-based Layouts:
There are a lot of CSS resources on the Internet. Two of the best are Bluerobot's Layout Reservoir (http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/), and Position is Everything ( |
[edit] Moving Blocks Around
Currently, the JazzMeet wiki's content is in a single column, with the page's primary content displayed above other elements such as the toolbox and navigation links, and the search feature.
| Back up your skin template frequently:
Moving the content around in the template can become messy. So make sure you create copies of your skin template frequently, just in case! |
JazzMeet's design means that we will need two columns, with the primary content to the left, and the other content, such as the search feature and our sponsors to the right, as we demonstrated earlier.
[edit] The Header
We have already dealt with the <head> elements. First in the page's <body> are the #p-personal element and the wiki's logo, which we need to enclose in a new div to style them more effectively. We can insert the following existing div inside:
<div id="header"> <div class="portlet" id="p-personal"> ====The Content Column: #column-one==== The JazzMeet design has a column along the right-hand side of the page's primary content that displays JazzMeet's sponsors, and some advertisements. 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