Forum:New appearance
For the longest time, we've been the NIWA wiki with the least unique skin in all ways - even DQ Wiki, the other NIWA wiki not much changed from the default white Monobook/Vector, has a unique background image from the standard MediaWiki flower. I think we're overdue to fix this.
Here are some concept images of the new scheme I've been dabbling with: [1] [2] I chose to take the blue in the logo and 2px-thick borders used for templates, and put them together to get something simple but fresh. It's based on Monobook because the skin poll showed pretty conclusively it was the favoured skin, though a Vector-based variant would make sense once the Monobook one is close to done.
A few notes:
- I'm pretty set on the "shades of blue with 2px borders" theme, while keeping strong colours for templates. You can argue for something completely different, but you'll probably need to provide your own mockups before others will support you.
- The background is currently a solid colour, but an image-based background could work as well (if it's not eye-catching, the background isn't supposed to be a focal point).
- Things like infoboxes and navboxes will probably get a redesign to match this, but it might have to be a "stage 2" kind of thing; it's surprisingly difficult to design a new table format while the old format still exists.
So, have a look at the concepts and give me your opinions/ideas. Toomai Glittershine 
The Superlative 11:39, 18 July 2014 (EDT)
