Thread:Project:Support desk/Controlling how a page's Categories appear on the page/reply (3)

Apparently, modifying Vector is going to require a lot of mucking around in PHP, which I understand even less well than I get CSS. But when I modify MonoBook to create a skin, the result ends up looking exactly the same as MonoBook, regardless of what I change. Somewhere I'm not actually activating the skin, but I don't know where. Steps I've tried:


 * Choose the skin in Preferences > Appearance. Doesn't make a difference.
 * Add require_once "$IP/skins/CalteirBook.php"; to LocalSettings.php. Tried this, still doesn't make a difference. (And contradictory to this page, trying $IP/skins/calteirbook/CalteirBook.php instead makes the wiki blank, since that isn't normally where the .php files are stored.) This makes the skin the default, but the CSS changes for the skin are not displaying.
 * Trying to change various MonoBook or monobook mentions in the .php file doesn't seem to make my preferred CSS work. (And I'm still not clear exactly which ones to change -- there aren't many tutorials on the web that clearly explain what to change or why.)
 * I've of course made significant changes to the CSS file, but these aren't reflected in the resulting webpage.

Is there a way to fix all this? I'm getting really confused.