Help:Theme Designer

The Theme Designer is an easy-to-use admin tool that allows you to quickly customize your wiki's theme and wordmark. Choose from a pre-set theme or design your own unique theme that fits your wiki's topic and community. thumb|620px|left|Watch this tour of the Theme Designer to learn how to great a great wiki theme 

Step-by-Step

 * As an admin of a wiki, you can find a link to Theme Designer in the My Tools menu on their toolbar, or in the Admin Dashboard. You can also navigate to it directly by visiting the page, Special:Themedesigner, on your wiki.


 * You can access three tabs:
 * Themes: Choose from a variety of pre-set themes, which can be used in whole or modified.
 * Customize: Define background and page attributes.
 * Wordmark: Design how the wiki's name displays, upload a unique graphic wordmark, or add a favicon.


 * Every change made is immediately seen on the preview below, so you can see how your theme will look before you save it.


 * Theme_designer.png

Themes

 * You can choose from eleven pre-set themes by clicking on the theme you want. This will show you a preview of the theme below the designer.
 * If you want to change parts of the theme you choose, simply click on the customize tab, and modify links, button colors, and more.
 * Theme_designer_-_theme_tab.png

Customize

 * Background: The background is the area outside of the content area and appears on all pages of your wiki.
 * Select the background color of your choice in the color picker.
 * You can choose to add a background design by choosing one of the images in the graphic picker. Some of these are transparent images, and will use whatever background color you have already set.
 * If you would like to add your own background image, click on the graphic picker and use the upload tool available. You can upload a .jpg, .png or .gif. The maximum file size is 150 kilobytes.
 * You can tile the background image (so that it repeats across the page) by checking the "tile" box.
 * You can fix the image (so it stays in place as you scroll down the page) by selecting "fix".
 * If you do not wish to tile the graphic, it will appear once, and the background color will appear in the remaining space.
 * Page: Page controls the colors of the buttons, links, header and content.
 * Click on the color swatch under each category to change the color. A color picker will appear to let you choose a color or add in a hex code.
 * You can change the transparency of the content area by moving the transparency slider.
 * Theme_designer_-_customize_tab.png
 * Theme_designer_-_customize_tab.png

Wordmark

 * The wordmark can be either text or a graphic and appears on every page. Users can navigate to the main page of the wiki by clicking on the wordmark on any page.
 * Text wordmark:
 * The wordmark text is originally set to the wiki's sitename. To change it, click the edit button.
 * To modify the font, choose from the dropdown menu of fifteen font options, along with the size of small, medium or large.
 * Graphic wordmark:
 * You can create and upload your own graphic wordmark.
 * Graphic wordmarks can only be .png files and must be 250x65 pixels or less.
 * The workmark graphic file is stored at File:Wiki-wordmark.png.
 * Favicon: 
 * ​ Favicons are small icons appear at the top of your browser, and are frequently used in tabs and bookmarks.
 * You can upload a favicon using the upload tool. Select Choose File and then select "Upload" to complete the process.
 * Your favicon must be 16 x 16px with a .ico extension. You can learn more about Favicons here.
 * Theme_designer_-_wordmark_tab.png

Saving and past revisions

 * When you are finished, click Save and your new theme will appear to users instantly!
 * If you would like to see or revert to a past version, you can do so in Theme Designer. Click on a past version and it will load in preview mode.
 * Theme_designer_-_history.png

Monobook logo
You can customize the Monobook logo as well! Upload a 135x155 pixel logo onto File:Wiki.png.

Next Pages

 * Learn how to edit the Community Corner
 * Learn how to edit the Wiki Navigation
 * Learn how to edit your My Tools

Further Help and Feedback
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