User talk:Tom Sponheim

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Formatting
User:CzechOut is the user you need to speak to, he's the one who has done pretty much all of the formatting, fonts and other magic you've seen here. Thanks. --Tangerineduel / talk 14:09, May 16, 2011 (UTC)

Drop-downs
Hiya :) I saw your query on Tangerineduel's talk page.  As the tech admin round these parts, I thought I'd swoop in and answer for him.  I'm not quite sure whether you're talking about the changes to the wikia header drop downs (as these would be "global" across all of wikia) or the navigation drop-downs (as these would be global across our wiki).

So I'll just tell you about both.

They are both styled through changes to MediaWiki:Common.css. Although I've not finished cleaning up the code — cause I'm still constructing it — I've tried to leave behind a ton of annotations. Fortunately for you, this part of the code is basically finished, and is pretty readable, especially if you know a bit about CSS.

If you go to that page and use your browser's search function to look for .WikiHeader, that'll take you to a whole section of code that is primarily concerned with defining the space from the wikia strip to the search bar. Though it does a bit more, this is what controls the internal global navigation drop-downs ("stories", "individuals", etc.). The code for the wikia strip can be found just below the wiki header section. Look for .GlobalNavigation and .AccountNavigation.

I hope that helps. 14:23:41 Mon 16 May 2011


 * That helps a great deal. Thanks! Tom Sponheim 15:36, May 16, 2011 (UTC)