Talk:Home

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• As you may notice there is a lot of links on the Main Page. I have tried splitting every section into individual pages but found it was difficult in seeing what was on the site. I have now added translucent links and will see how this works for a while. It is still not ideal and makes the main page very large but maybe we will be able to figure out a better site map strategy. (smcnaught)

Layout Ideas

One Idea would be to have all of those links colapsed under thier subsection in the side bar. I'm quessing that the wiki uses CSS and pHp, so we could easily move a bunch of those links off the bottom of the page and provide a more streamlined tree on the side bar. Forge

I can see what we can do to make this work. I would prefer to have this limited to CSS as I do not want to modify the coding of MediaWiki too much in relationship to the newer versions. Bugs/Exploits/etc do happen and I want to have it so we can upgrade the site easily. As we have discussed you being one of the site managers, we can discuss how we can move forward on this. (smcnaught)

That makes sense. With the CSS we should be able to put a list of the Top Level sections on the side bar, and then from there have each section it's own page. Just think it would make the main page a little easier to take. Forge

Your layout

Hey i'm trying to edit my own skin for a personal project. Could you let me know what the code snippet that you use is which drops the content area down compared to the normal monobook.css. Thanks. --Plkrtn 19:36, 15 October 2006 (MDT)

You need to modify main.css located in ../wiki/skins/monobook/

Look for #content { and change margin to a more appropriate magin setting. My settings are the following:

#content {
/* origin    margin: 2.8em 0 0 12.2em; */
   margin: 7.0em 0 0 13.3em;
   padding: 0em 1em 1.5em 1em;
   background: White;
   border: 1px solid #aaaaaa;
   border-right: none;
   line-height: 1.5em;
   position: relative;
   z-index: 0;
}

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Hope that helps.. (smcnaught 10:58, 16 October 2006 (MDT))