Forum:Wiki Skin Colour

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I've just signed up to wikia (in general) and memory alpha specifically (because I find the articles very interesting). I'd like to participate in forums, etc but cannot because the wikia is so dark that, if I'm on here for more than two minutes, I want to vomit (not exaggerating, it's that bad). I thought that signing up would allow me to choose a different skin but no such luck.

Please tell me how to fix it so I can start reading through the FAQ's and following the procedures so I don't make a complete doofus of myself.

Thanks,

Tr!ff!d

I think the only people who can change the skin are the admins, and it would be a universal change. I guess you could ask them to change it. Cybermat47 (talk) 08:53, January 14, 2014 (UTC)Cybermat47

That would be too much of an imposition for the rest of the people in the group. Thanks for the information though.

Tr!ff!d (talk) 10:30, January 14, 2014 (UTC)

I too signed up thinking I would be able to change the color scheme, and am disappointed/distraught that I can't. Does anyone have custom CSS for dark-text-on-light-background that I could copy & paste? Surely I'm not the only one looking for this...

(And yes, I tried googling already, but have yet to find anything helpful.) Kristanlh (talk) 00:33, February 4, 2014 (UTC)

.WikiaMainContentContainer {
  background-color:#FFF;
}

.mw-content-ltr {
  color:#000;
}

Add this to "User:USERNAME/wikia.css" (where USERNAME is your user name). For real customization I suggest using something like the Firebug extension for Firefox. - Archduk3 21:19, February 5, 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, I did figure out that I could customize the CSS, and I'm actually quite capable at web design, but there are a LOT of classes to dig through in each theme. For example, the code you supplied doesn't work for MonoBook -- and even if it did, it wouldn't account for all the links, section headings, image captions, navigation boxes, etc. :( But I do appreciate your response.

As for an extension, I've considered it, and that's probably a great solution for some people, but personally I'm just not willing to install a plug-in that I'll only use for one site. I prefer to keep my programs (in this case, Chrome) "clean." So I guess I just have to suffer through the white-on-dark design. But it'd be nice if the powers-that-be would consider adding a dark-on-light theme. Kristanlh (talk) 21:55, February 5, 2014 (UTC)