New themes for the Monaco Skin

Sarah Manley March 30, 2010

Wikians love to customize their wiki's look to match the feel of their community. One of the most frequent questions founders ask on the Community wiki is how to personalize their wiki's look to be more like the designs found on Percy Jackson, Wowwiki, Avatar and others. Well today our jobs got a little easier as our super talented designers have developed 6 new themes with a variety of colors and backrounds.

You can preview and select these skins under the Skin tab in your user Preferences, and they include:

With the addition of these new themes, we have unfortunately stopped offering support for 4 former themes, including Smoke, Slate, Gaming and Brick. Any wiki or user who is currently using one of these can continue to do so, but any switch away from it will be permanent. You will not be able to switch back to these options. Also, all future products and designs will not take these themes into consideration. Our new themes do offer similiar designs to those being removed. Any community that has customized their wiki on their own will not be affected.

We hope you enjoy the new themes as much as we do!

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No 2 is my favorite

May 25, 2010 by Darth Stefan
2 out 6 suck

May 25, 2010 by Rayous
im loving in it!

May 24, 2010 by Atika
Can I add a picture?

May 24, 2010 by Hey1234
I like the look of Forest.

April 9, 2010 by Bluethunder213
Nice. I prefer the "Obsession" over all of them, it must be my love of Gothic looking colors and themes. These designers are talented with HTML and what not.

April 9, 2010 by PacBoyCraZ
Thats good!! I prefer Carbon than other ones...

April 7, 2010 by Abraham2727
@The 888th Avatar - Thanks I'll check out the code behind it later as it has a clear look (uncomplicated) to the site unlike some of the other rather Dark looking Fanon/Gaming wikis and the 60-40 split looks better than my 50-50 current page which is disappearing at some screen settings. Less is probably more as i have too much info as well on the page.

April 6, 2010 by BulldozerD11
In-twes-ting.

April 5, 2010 by J.Severe
I made one some time ago that isn't complex on Avatar Wiki; not sure if it's suitable for you.

April 2, 2010 by The 888th Avatar
@Sxerks thanks for the link and tips. I'll look into customising it later after i finish reducing my template wanted list a bit, as part of a spring clean.
Question ? - anybody have any suggestions for good front pages to look at for new layout ideas instead of the standard one, for a revamp then for the wikis birthday ?

April 2, 2010 by BulldozerD11
The Theme code is still available, see Help:Customizing_Monaco/Theme_colors
When you pick a new skin you should copy the Theme css to your "MediaWiki:Monaco.css" and set the skin to Custom.
For example if you choose the Forest skin but want a 100% main page, copy the css and remove the "@group Main Page" section like I did here.

April 2, 2010 by Sxerks
This is cool - but I don't understand why you have to remove the previous themes. I think you should just keep adding on to the themes.

April 2, 2010 by Lucario621
Can we get the code for the superseded Brick skin that i was using on my Tractors.wikia so i can use it as a custom skin instead of the new versions and tweak it abit. ? As the red/brown colour represented Earth and the Yellow the typical colour of Construction plant. I had though of adding a more graphical back ground but messing with CSS and JS put me off, but the idea of a skin builder sounds good for allowing non code experts to tinker more with the wikis look,

April 2, 2010 by BulldozerD11
Nice, but I dislike the narrow page area. Its a bit pointless if you ask me.
My personal favorite of the new skins is Obsession. Nice job on designing that skin =)

April 2, 2010 by Seahorseruler
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Nice, I like them.

April 1, 2010 by Darth Stefan
**SIGH** I suppose your right. I can however still view them on preview.

April 1, 2010 by Gourleyo
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Gourleyo, I don't think think your request to choose from old MediaWiki skins will get anywhere. They were removed a while ago. The old skins, of course, do not work well with blogs. ;)
Interested to see what this skin builder would look like.

March 31, 2010 by The 888th Avatar
@Archduk3 - You can find an easier to read version of the Obsession skin's css here to help with making a green version.
@Gourleyo - You can easily make a red version of Sapphire with just the following 2 css items...
```
.color1 {
    background-color: #______;
}

.accent {
     background-color: #______;
}
```
Just fill in the blanks with the shades of red you want to use.
NOTE: color1 is the dark shade (widget title bars, page controls bar (Edit, History, etc), header menu buttons), and accent is the light shade (Latest activity widget and user masthead, which is the area at the top of personal pages, such as My Home, User page, Talk page, etc)
March 31, 2010 by JoePlay
@uberfuzzy I knows about the ruby theme, you gaves it to me..

March 31, 2010 by Lcawte