User:Eleazaros/Skins

Introduction
 This is all based upon 10.x+ versions of MediaWiki. If you're looking for older version info, have fun with your search. Information on designing skins for a site is a bit tricky to locate and some of the examples are quite misleading. I'll expand upon those as we come across them but, for now, here are some links to resources here on skin development. These links are split up into Administrator information and User information. The reason for this is distinction is Administrator based information assumes you have free and open access to your php files to adjust and modify them at your leasure with no limitations on what you can and cannot do with these files. In effect you are "the god of your wiki" and can do anything you wish. User based information links assumes you have limitations upon what you are doing and/or you are "prototyping" work in such a way that you will first "tinker it into place" then finalize it for submission to an admin or place it yourself as the admin. Administrator information is plentiful on this site. It basically assumes anyone working here has full, global, access to adjust things as they see fit. This means most of the questions, that would fall into this category, will be covered by the links.
 * Administrator Information

User based information is scant and tucked off into corners so I've a hunch I'll be typing a lot to provide this level of information.
 * User Information

General Reference Links

 * Skins
 * Customize page layout
 * Layout customization
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