On 20.10.2014 09:05, Krabina Bernhard wrote: > Hi, > > regardless of the skin used, I think it's worthwile to have a look at some > sites we should aim to match regarding their appearance, e. g. > > http://www.drupal.org/ > https://wordpress.org/ > http://www.joomla.org/ > https://www.atlassian.com/
You are right. We really need to up our game there a little in terms of professional appearance. Looking at these very professional websites (and taking into account how much time it takes to do such a thing properly), we need to think about how to implement this. We do have a number of powerful components available (Chameleon, all the Bootstrap basics, I also have some not-yet-released extra code to use further Bootstrap features on the Wiki), but it will still be work to use that on our site (change table-based layouts on wiki pages; choose fonts, colours, images, and textures; style key elements; redesign site navigation to go with a collapsing menu, ...). How could we best move forward to put this into practice, ideally before the end of this year? Cheers, Markus > ----- Am 17. Okt 2014 um 11:58 schrieb Stephan Gambke s7ep...@gmail.com: > >> Well, I plan to maintain the skin for a while yet, not least because I >> use it myself. >> >> I want to finally release a version 1.0 this weekend. Should have done >> that a long time ago, but always put it off. There is one major issue >> left that I want to fix before, which is the un-responsiveness of the >> navbar. Should not be too hard to do, somebody recently sent me some >> code I think I can use. :) >> >> There are some rough edges left, but they are mostly related to >> styling of special pages and the like and should be easy to fix >> (patches welcome). >> >> Cheers, >> Stephan >> >> On 17 October 2014 10:40, Markus Krötzsch <mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Good idea. Chameleon is great (also because of the nice Bootstrap >>> styling that becomes available on all pages). I am using it right now to >>> build a site (to be published soon). >>> >>> A big advantage with Chameleon is that most customizations happen in CSS >>> or by inserting HTML into the page through configuration files. so there >>> are fewer dependencies on how MW does their skinning in PHP -- assuming >>> that Chameleon is always updated to support this properly. >>> >>> My only concern would be that Chameleon is still classified Beta. It >>> would be good to know if we can hope for future support for this if we >>> switch now. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Markus >>> >>> On 16.10.2014 19:52, James HK wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I'm calling for some opinions on replacing the "old" Vector skin on >>>> smw.org with something fresh. Stephan in his relentless pursuit of >>>> making MediaWiki more usable to non-Wikipedia users created the >>>> Chameleon skin [0] which seems more suitable to those who want to use >>>> MW/SMW in different environments. >>>> >>>> SMW no longer tries to be a product that seeks to fulfil requirements >>>> from either WMF or Wikipedia to be used as encyclopaedic semantic >>>> content management (that's now the job of Wikidata/Wikibase) therefore >>>> using the "Vector" skin somehow appears to be outdated by trying to >>>> look like the good old Wikipedia site. >>>> >>>> Furthermore, MW 1.24 (to be released soon) made some changes on how >>>> skins are deployed [1] and it might be a good time to say farewell to >>>> the "old" skin and rediscover SMW's identity by changing its >>>> appearance. >>>> >>>> [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Chameleon >>>> [1] >>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24#Skins_no_longer_loaded_after_upgrade.3F >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. >>>> Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. >>>> Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. >>>> Take corrective actions from your mobile device. >>>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Semediawiki-user mailing list >>>> semediawiki-u...@lists.sourceforge.net >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
