Packt is pleased to announce a new book on designing skins for a MediaWiki website. Written by web designer Richard Carter, MediaWiki Skins Design teaches the users how to customize the appearance of their MediaWiki site by creating custom skins.

Wikis are a great way to collaborate and share knowledge online. MediaWiki is a popular and powerful wiki engine, powering some of the biggest wiki sites in the world – including Wikipedia, the biggest and most famous wiki of all.

This book takes users through customizing their MediaWiki skin. It is full of practical examples of MediaWiki skinning techniques, and provides a clear explanation of how MediaWiki skinning works and the necessary template and CSS customizations required to completely alter MediaWiki's appearance.

mojoPortal.com: "The main focus of this release is making mojoPortal more attractive,
with the addition of 21 good looking new skins for a total of 34 skins
now included with mojoPortal. There were also a few minor bug fixes for
things reported in the Forums since the last release."

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"Since releasing those 10 good looking skins the popularity of mojoPortal seemed to spike upwards fairly dramatically so I concluded that the time spent implementing those skins was well spent and the lack of good looking skins prior to that probably really was holding us back in terms of popularity...Currently we ship about 30 skins with mojoPortal, 10 of which are good looking and 20 that are just ok or mediocre, or just outdated looking. So I'm thinking its time to drop out most of the boring ones and do another round of 10 skin implementations to bring us up to 20 good looking skins."

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