Forum:Building a main page around the advertisement

Hey, I want to do a more complex layout for my wiki's main page http://camphalfbloodroleplay.wikia.com/wiki/Camp_Half-Blood_Role_Playing_Wiki using more than just 2 columns (left/right) but how do I style around the advertisement, it's fixed in the top right side, and it varies on size depending on what ad is showing, any way around this?


 * Because of the varying height of the adverts, the only real way to guarantee that they don't clash with the content is to use the standard main page column tags, as you currently are doing on that wiki.


 * Then what was that whole thing about making all those changes to the back end of wikia to allow for more options? Or was that just for regular pages?


 * The recent layout changes allow more flexibility with page and tool design - this is mainly for Wikia designed elements, but wikis are free to incorporate this as well. The main page column tags conform with this layout design - they match the widths of the standard content area and sidebar, and the standard sidebar advertisement width.


 * The WikiaGrid changes can be used for this. With the changes that were made, the left column is just a .grid-4, you can get rid of it and use your own columns if you want:

 My column 1 My column 2 My column 3 My column 4  My column 5 (330px) 
 * This will give you 4 columns and a fifth 2-column wide column. You can do any combination you want as long as the sum is equal or less than 4: you can do a 2 grid-2s (2*2=4), a grid-2 and 2 grid-1s (2*1+1*2=4), a grid-1 and a grid-2 and another grid-1(1+2+1=4), a grid-3 and a grid-1 (3+1=4), etc, etc. and it should all work fine. (Beware of Monobook though, I have no idea if the grid stuff works there, it probably doesn't so you'll need custom CSS to recreate the .grid-X classes) Lunarity 02:53, October 19, 2012 (UTC)