Forum:Customisation questions

Hey, been searching for ages through old supports, and still can't quite find what I need, so....
 * 1) How can I change the right side bar's look, not what it says or anything, just like the colour, so it contrasts more from the rest of the wiki's background colour, like this wiki, with the white background, and darker shadow?
 * 2) How do you change the chat moderator icon?
 * 3) Is it possible to make a different chat icon for various roles, admin, bcrat etc?
 * 4) Is it possible to make the chat background different from the wiki background colour?
 * 5) How do you change how and what shows up in the user profile page for admin/bcrat/etc?


 * To answer in order:
 * Much of what you like about a wiki can be found in their CSS files. If you like  scratchpad's design, go to w:c:scratchpad:Wikia.css and take a look around.  Judging from their css, however, they seem to be importing huge quantities from w:c:admintools, so you may want to explore there.  Or you can come on over to tardis:MediaWiki:Wikia.css and look at the way we do it.  Just look for the section labelled "Modules" in our Wikia.css.  What you'll find is that you have to basically style each one of the components separately.  Well, I don't know about have to — but it certainly gives you more control.  Each "box" in the right rail has a different name —   —  so you add all the names into a style declaration, and there ya go.
 * Through CSS, the same way you change any other icon. The element you need to change seems to be  .  Upload a new photo, preferably a small .png transparent pic.  Then click on it when you're viewing the file page.  This will take you to its "true" web address.  Cut and paste that address into a declaration like    That should work out for you.
 * Don't think so, because chat only recognises "moderator" or "not moderator". Unless they've changed it recently, there is no distinction between bureaucrats, admin and moderators.
 * Yep. It is.  Again, it's just a matter of finding the right element name.  Be aware, though, that the chat window seems highly segmented, so you may have to make several declarations to get the thing to be uniform.  The main chat window, though, seems to be  .  You'll want to play around with Firebug, Web Inspector, Dragonfly or whatever your browser has that lets you inspect elements of pages.  (These subprograms are accessed by right-clicking and pulling down to "Inspect Element".)
 * Question too broad to answer. Care to narrow it down a bit?
 * Well, hoped that helped, at least a little! 20:08: Thu 19 Apr 2012