Difference between revisions of "Nuvola Skin"

Revision as of 04:34, 12 July 2009

In the summer of 2009, I created the Nuvola skin for MediaWiki. I had originally started it in the summer of 2006 (less than a year after I had gotten my website.) It is based off of the Nuvola icon set for KDE 3 by David Vignoni and the MediaWiki homepage design draft I adopted for my homepage. It is based off of the Monobook skin, which is the MediaWiki default. I kept the content area and layout, because I liked it. I wanted to create a new skin because all of the MediaWiki skins suck. With Wordpress, everyone installs a new skin, and every site looks unique. With MediaWiki, almost no one uses a new skin.

I did not get much done in 2006, except some new file icons and a start to the CSS. I did do a full design on paper which I can not find anymore. In 2009, I decided to finish the skin. The skin is comprised of 3 main elements: far better drop downs, a new sidebar, and a new footer.