Thread:Project:Support desk/ Making the front page look different than the rest of the site?

I was wondering if there is a way to make the front page look a bit different than the rest of the site in a skin. All I would want on the front page is a search bar and a menu under like Wowhead, while every other page would be more wiki like (again like Wowhead). I would also like an area for a log in at the top, but it should be on every page. This is my first time working with Media Wiki, and I am just a designer, so knowing this information would help the developer with a lot of frustration. Thanks.

I'm not sure if this will help, but I am using the latest version of MW and the latest PHP under MySQL. Its hosted under Linux.
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