Ah, I get your point. Thanks for the suggestion, and that link has a pretty easy to follow tutorial, so I'll try that.
Much appreciated. > To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:56:59 -0800 > Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Requesting help and advice on making a custom > Vector skin > > On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:51:32 -0800, Arcane 21 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > My question is simple: How do I (A) clone the Vector skin and (B) make > > it so my customized Vector skin can have custom background and text > > colors. > > > > I tried using this skin initially: https://code.google.com/p/darkvector/ > > > > Unfortunately, it has graphical errors in my version of MediaWiki > > (currently 1.19.3), so I decided it would be better to take my own > > version of Vector, clone under a different name (currently DarkVector is > > the name I'm using), then I planned to make my own version of darkvector > > (I was going to change the colors slightly, but I like the version on > > google code) > > > > Unfortunately, I'm only really good at editing CSS. I tried editing my > > clone .php files, but I either (A) keep screwing up the layout (and the > > sidebar disappears) or (B) I get it looking right but all of my edits to > > the screen.css to change the colors have no effect. > > > > I'm not sure I know what I doing, so if someone could walk me through > > what I'd like to do or could provided me pointers on what I might be > > getting wrong, I would appreciate the assistance. > > You don't want to clone vector. Rather you want to create a skin that's > based on it. > > See http://blog.redwerks.org/2012/02/28/mediawiki-subskin-tutorial/ > > -- > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/] > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
