User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/@comment-1705800-20100820000538/@comment-761251-20100820085051

toolbar on the bottom is a terrible idea - when having different pages open on a tabbed browser, this means your mouse is constantly moving from the top to the bottom (and sometimes the sidebar), which is awful from a usability perspective.

I've done a reskin with a fixed toolbar at the top here, and that works fairly well; but with the contraint of having the ad at the top, Wikia can't do it like that.