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

Hei!

(Wowhead does not use MediaWiki; neither for the front page, nor for the system itself. But(!) you can customize the design of MediaWiki.)

In your wiki you have a page called MediaWiki:Common.css. On that page you can enter CSS styles, which should be applied for all skins. If your starting page has the name "Main Page", then the following rule would apply for the element with the ID "content" on that page. Since this element contains basically the whole content, the rule would hide the page content:

body.page-Main_Page #content { display: none; }

You can add rules of that kind in any way you like. Just check the source code of the page to see, how you can address the elements. In the example above I did that with the ID "content". You could then for example hide the namespaces (ID "p-namespace") with this rule:

body.page-Main_Page #p-namespaces { display: none; }

and so on...

Then add some paddings/margins around the elements you want to keep

body.page-Main_Page #p-search { padding-top: 300px; padding-left: 100px; }

and you should be done. :-)