User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Tips for being a great admin/@comment-5710775-20121028162629/@comment-4674838-20121028170851

Wikia has features such as the Theme Designer to make things like setting a background and stylizing the wiki easier. However, it's still true that coding will always be needed for some things. There's a number of resources available for those looking for coding help.
 * 1) The forums on Community Central are a great place to ask for technical help. Quite a few more knowledgeable users can be found editing there and will be happy to help out.
 * 2) The Community Development Team can help with design and improving the main page of your wiki.
 * 3) The Admin Mentor Program may be able to help your wiki with things such as creating templates, designing themes, organizing rules and policies, etc. The AMP approach places emphasis on "showing" rather than "doing", as it's intended to be a learning opportunity.
 * 4) There is online documentation and tutorials about various types of coding used on Wikia. Learning coding is a hands-on experience, so make sure to do your research and practice, practice, practice :)
 * 5) *The Wikia help pages are a great first-stop for learning about what Wikia features are available to you and the basics of how they work.
 * 6) *If you're looking for more technical information, mediawiki.org has great documentation about using parser functions and other advanced wiki markup used in templates, as well as MediaWiki Extensions. Help pages on Wikipedia are also a great resource.
 * 7) *A CSS tutorial can be found at w3schools, same with HTML. Other websites may also be helpful, so don't be afraid to do a google search.
 * 8) *For JavaScript, you might stop by the Wikia Developer's Wiki to see a list of scripts available. You don't need to know how to write JavaScript code to make a wiki or use scripts that are already written. Learning JavaScript is very challenging and isn't for most people, but if you are wanting to learn, there are resources online.