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Bundy
Read your text on Ted Bundy. Looking great! By the way, according to Evil Beyond Belief, a 2009 book about serial killers, Bundy would, in addition to his fake arm cast ruse, sometimes pose as a fireman or even a cop. He also did burglaries and would bludgeon and then rape his victims in their sleep. By the way, congratulations on 4000+ edits! --Jpx400 12:01, October 11, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks :) I did hear about the cop/fireman thing. Bundy was a very effective "hunter", having much more confidence than the average killer. He was probably the only serial killer ever that was actually able to use his looks to his advantage, although Dahmer was also considered attractive to his victims. I watched the movie the other day and was inspired to write about him in my own words (with a little paraphrasing from wikipedia). It should be a good article when it's finished. -

New Wikia Look
You're right, it's awful. Based on what I've been reading, they seem too detemined to make the change and that's not good news as they are saying they are not going to support monaco.css for long. What will we do then? :(


 * We'll have to learn the way the new system works, and try to translate the look to the new software somehow. I'm sure there is a way to keep the basic feel of the wiki with the new *.css (if there is one). -


 * I've been checking our wiki with the new look and some things look good, but others just don't work, for starters that the page proportion has changed and the part for the actual content has gotten its width reduced to 660px. Even worst is what it does to the content of the current left hand list of contents, I just see the first four :(. And everything is BLUE *argh* and the new *cool* theme designer is crap.
 * PD. From the central: You'll be able to switch back and forth between the two skins until November 3rd. At that time Monaco will be removed as a skin option.
 * PD2. From an angry user: Guys, everyone copy this coding into their personal /wikia.css before it's too late:
 * http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/User%3AJoeyaa%2Fwikia.css
 * It makes Oasis more bearable. (From me: Not sure what to do if we want to make certain changes to the others themes)
 * I'm NOT a happy camper


 * What exactly does this code do? If it only affects individual users, it's pretty useless. I've always hated the fact that users can have their own skin. It kind of defeats the purpose having a wiki theme to begin with. -


 * Not too sure, but as it states just affects one of the themes of the new wikia.css, the all-blue one, useless for us. Use the link (copy/paste) and you'll get to a user page where the code is and you'll maybe be able to compare after changing to the new look of the wiki. I think it tames the blues.
 * I've just found this under my username: http://community.wikia.com/index.php?title=User:Mvpl/global.css&action=edit&preload=Template:Airhogs777/personalCSS, please check it and tell me what is (code is not my forte)


 * It's your "preferences". That's all. -

Wiki Logo
It seems you're right, so don't be shy and do the honors! ;) ... and sorry not to help, but I've seen them so many times, I don't know which one I prefer...
 * And after playing a bit with the new "wiki look", I've discovered that neither is going to be of any use to us, as the new size for the logos is 250x65px. I'm feeling murderous!
 * As no2 I don't remember what I did, try the one you reduced so we can see how it works and I'll try to adjust it to the new size once I've calmed down :(. Good news is that we would be able to use the tiled background picture and change the color scheme to erase blues and others colors that clash with ours.

Bah! Stupid Wikia. I didn't really do anything to the one you made, Photoshop just has a batter resize filter than GIMP. You should try to find a copy of it. Maybe an older version is available somewhere for less money. This new look thing is pissing me off >:( -
 * As I've had time to calm down, I've concluded we can make several things work maybe even better than now (the screen seems less crowded?). I've customized the new look for a preview in white, black and red, and the effect is really good, specially if we get bold and use a black page with white font (it's a dark show, so why not!). And one of my problems with the new look (the shortcuts of the left hand bar) is seemingly going to be addressed, so admins can modify the content. Not everything is so bad, just the added work for us and probably a handful of thing we're not yet aware of :p
 * Photoshop can wait, I don't use those programs so much; and to resize the new logo, I've got you :D
 * Update: I've made some customization, including a logo, to our wiki on the new-look-side-of-the-world; take a look, rant and rave, and opine?

You're right, my main problem is that they have overdone the "squishing" part, but just for the content, the right hand bar is just as wide as it was, and now visually it seems even wider. And I did the logo (look the Update bit :p), another thing I hate is its reduced size. Everything else, I can live with, as it's just a matter of getting used to find things in different places ;)

The problem is the page content is at a set width now, where as before, it was adaptive, depending on your screen resolution. I don't know why they changed that. -

Top Menus
Hi Sec. You can customize the new menus at MediaWiki:Wiki-navigation. There should be 4 dropdown menus of up to 7 items each that you can fill in. There's a help page for that here. It looks like when they copied your old menus over, you had the first few entries as single links and not directories, so it is a bit unusual for your wiki at the moment. When the dropdown menus are working you should also see a link to edit them at the bottom of each menu. I recommend using one of them to contain any community/wiki type links that you want and put content in the rest, but that is up to you. Any special page type tools that you used to link there can also be put in your My tools menu on the bottom menu bar.

In terms of the page width, I'm afraid it is fixed and cannot be altered for the wiki as a whole. It was chosen to allow all ads to be taken out of the content space, and to still have everything fit onto a 1024px wide screen. With the old screen, pages were designed at one width and without ads by a user, and then frequently looked horrible for a different user who maybe saw the ads, or had a much smaller or much larger screen. This way, everybody sees the same page.

If you would like to view the wiki yourself with a wider content area you can create a personal Wikia.css for yourself that forces it to be wider; but be aware that your readers will not see the same width and you shouldn't design super-wide tables and things like that. Let me know if you have any further questions. -- Wendy (talk ) 21:40, October 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * No problem -- I'm glad I could help! And I'm glad you are getting used to the new skin. I think some things are actually handier myself (I love the "My tools" menu). At anyrate, if you want custom text colors you are welcome to add that to the sitewide Wikia.css. I know some people really like having followed links a different color (for example) which theme designer doesn't do, but you can set it yourself. And Wikia does collect statistics on the screen resolution of its visitors; right now there are still enough using 1024 that it was chosen as the width, but if that changes I'm sure they will reassess. -- Wendy (talk ) 23:45, October 25, 2010 (UTC)