Forum:Preparing for Venus Skin

So as may already know, staff is planning to roll out a new skin for wikis. Personally, I actually like many of the changes (to hell with the bar on the right!), though it still looks quite buggy right now, and needs several changes on staff's end. You can try it out on our wiki by adding the following code to any URL on our wiki: ?useskin=venus

But this forum isn't about how nice or terrible the new skin will be. It's about preparing us for when wikia randomly decides we're next to get it. We're much better off changing things before we get it than waiting for it to show up and break everything.

We have WAY too many templates that won't work with it. Check out The Straw Hats article with it. Many of our templates are too wide to work right with the top. While the real problem is definitely with the Recent Activity thing being in the way, we could stand to make some changes too. Many of our templates are way too out of date and haven't been visually altered since the Monobook era.

Now is a great time to revaluate our templates and make them look more visually exciting, while also attempting to make them Venus compatible. So this forum exists to be the centralized place we can discuss changes to them. 04:06, January 16, 2015 (UTC)

Discussion
So I'm no code wiz, but is it possible for us to dial in some variable widths to these templates? Doing that alone would fix most of the Oasis problems, I'd think. If not, then perhaps just limiting the width more? I dunno... 04:06, January 16, 2015 (UTC)

Good thing it's still beta now, those lines are still far apart from each other. And regarding the widths of the templates, yeah. It needs to. 14:05, January 16, 2015 (UTC)

I think editing templates with venus skin in mind right now will mess up the pages on the current skin.

On this wiki there are a lot of templates that uses "em" units to set dimensions. These units are relative to the font-size, so since venus increase the font size, all dimensions are increased as well. We should switch to "px" to keep the templates the same size. We can also set the font-size inside the templates to avoid the font increase inside them.

If we lock the font size inside the templates, won't that also limit the size of the templates too? If so, that seems like a very good option to prepare the stubs and templates like that.

But what about things like the tabs on the the SH pages? Should we just allow for more rows or something? 16:14, January 17, 2015 (UTC)