Forum:How to I change the setup of a Wiki to look more like Wikipedia/halo fandom.

My Wiki looks like the standard Wikia pages. I want to look more like Wikipedia/Halo Fandom, ect. How would I go about doing this?
 * Please remember to sign your comments by typing ~ . Which wiki are you talking about? Are you talking about the look of pages, the look of skins, or both?--Imaginationac (Talk) (Edits) (Email) 23:10, 26 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I just started a wiki, and I want to have it skinned for all the users. Jon God 05:35, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Again, which wiki is it? And do you mean you want to change the default skin? Skins are always present whether someone is logged in or not.--Imaginationac (Talk) (Edits) (Email) (Aselia, the Tales wiki) (Tabula Rasa Wikia) 13:48, 27 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, I don't like the standard skin, and I didn't want to ask everyone to change their skin for it. Jon God 05:11, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, you could request a staff member to change the default skin to one you want, but they probably won't do it. There working a new skin that allows users to choose colors custom colors schemes easily.--Imaginationac (Talk) (Edits) (Email) (Aselia, the Tales wiki) (Tabula Rasa Wikia) 09:07, 28 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I am the Admin of a wikia I just created. I was wondering how to set it. Jon God 10:03, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
 * While you are a founder, you are not a staff member (staff gets paid, and knows what they're doing, hence why they get paid). And while I am too not a staff member, I do know what I'm talking about most of time. If you want a second opinion ask on IRC. Bottom line is you can't change the default skin yourself.--Imaginationac (Talk) (Edits) (Email) (Aselia, the Tales wiki) (Tabula Rasa Wikia) 17:10, 28 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Oh, dang, I guess I will just ask everyone to change their skin. Jon God 19:57, 28 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Why is it so important for people to use monobook? Telling users to change their skin isn't recommended... As what skin to use is a user's choice, and anons don't get anything other than a cookie which can only be set by logging in. Even if you change the default skin you're going to be getting many users using both Quartz and MonoBook. So the best thing to do is make your wiki work in both skins. Besides, content isn't supposed to care what skin you're using. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) (tricks) (current topic) Aug 29, 2007 @ 05:09 (UTC)
 * I differ on that last part Dantman "how the skin looks" important on how you are going to arrange the information, the difference in monobook is that the space to the right is rather empty with only google ads so adding a menu in the page or certain infoboxes to the right of the page makes it look good as you are making a distribution of information also using an empty space so the user can read more with out moving up and down and loosing interest due to build up of reading stressing for not finding something he/she likes opposed to having the menu bar to the right and then in the article adding another menu or content. Its by popular choosing that menus go on top or left side column/row, if there is a right menu column normally it has lower relevance or are complements to the left/top menus like i have stated before (in the new skin talk page long time ago). In other words... having the wikis menu to the right and then having the articles related stuff menu/infobox to the right = clogging making it stress navigation. so the battle between monobook and the new wikia skins will never end as the way it looks its like entering a Hebrew or Arabic or etc page (no offense to any of the languages as they have the menu also backwards) that has English translation --Cizagna (Talk) 16:02, 2 September 2007 (UTC)


 * All sites have their main menu on the left side. This doesn't demonstrate nothing. Maybe the main problem is the width of the new skin's right menu. And the design of the new skins seems to attract the focus on the ads, next to the menus and all the top and right links and finally to the content, in contrast of Monobook. And this makes effectively some confusion to visitors. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -@WikiDex 18:00, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
 * As we can see from your example, the logo and rest of main info is on "top-left" the "right-top" its near empty making a visual more wide space, the lines in the menus are simple and minimal so its not clog, yeah there is no ads. And what i said was "popular" not a "standard" then again here is an example of the wikia skin with a article menu to the right as its designated for the other skins --Cizagna (Talk) 18:35, 2 September 2007 (UTC)