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MediaWiki Skins Design - ebook
MediaWiki Skins Design - ebook
In Detail
Wikis are a great way to collaborate and share knowledge online. MediaWiki is a popular and powerful wiki engine, powering some of the biggest wiki sites in the world, including Wikipedia, the biggest and most famous wiki of all.
If you have a MediaWiki-based site and want to tailor its appearance, then this book is for you. MediaWiki Skins Design shows you how to fully customize the appearance and interface of your MediaWiki-based wiki. You will learn how to change every aspect of your wikii's appearance to produce a MediaWiki site fully tailored to your requirements.
The book provides full details of how MediaWiki skins work, and the necessary template and CSS customizations required to completely alter MediaWiki's appearance. Using this book, you will learn to develop rich, attractive, and friendly skins for MediaWiki.
  This book will show the reader how to customize the appearance of their MediaWiki site by creating custom skins.
Approach
This book takes you step by step through customizing your MediaWiki skin. It is full of practical examples of MediaWiki skinning techniques, and clear explanations of how MediaWiki skinning works.
The early chapters go through each element of a MediaWiki design, showing the CSS and PHP tags necessary to customize MediaWiki's appearance. Later chapters look at ways to further enhance your design using extra graphics, JavaScript, AJAX, dynamic CSS, and more.
Who this book is for
This book is aimed at web designers or wiki administrators who want to customize the look of MediaWiki with custom skins.
The reader will already have a MediaWiki installation that they are targeting with their skin. It might be their own installation, or they might be a designer developing a custom look for a client. The book does not cover setting up or using MediaWiki, except features specifically related to skinning.
The book assumes that you are familiar with CSS and HTML, but no prior knowledge of PHP is required.
Kategoria: | Computer Technology |
Język: | Angielski |
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ISBN: | 978-1-84719-521-0 |
Rozmiar pliku: | 9,0 MB |