User:Dvyjones/Skins



Copied from Essjay
This user style is copied from Essjay, I have nothing to do with this style...

My MonoMonobook

 * Dvyjones
 * Monobook.css, Monobook.js
 * Included in the Gallery of user styles on Meta

Monobook.css
Essjays monobook.css has elements that offer several useful functions. The basic format is the Main monobook.css, with the following changes:
 * The skin is a true monobook; nearly everything renders in grayscale, unless color is needed for a specific purpose, in which case the colors are generally muted.
 * The background of all pages renders white, with gray text.
 * Link colors have been altered to appear as gray (except interwiki links, which remain blue, and redlinks, which are a dark red.
 * The "orange bar of death" has been replaced with a white background and the same black text. The major indicator of new messages is the 75px image of a penguin. (Intended to be soothing, for those of us who have blood-pressure spikes at the thought of new messages.)
 * The entire footer has been removed.
 * Various notices (sitenotice, watchlist notice, etc.) can be disabled if they become annoying during long-term use.
 * Diffs render in a more readable format. (See screencap #2)
 * The class settings (infobox, messagebox, etc.) have all been set to new colors. I believe strongly that there is no reason to complain about the default settings assigned to such classes; simply change them in your CSS settings, and be done with it.

Adapted from the "Milky"-style:


 * Most borders are round in Gecko-based browsers.
 * Dotted borders around pre are now solid
 * Userbar has been moved to the left with the rest of the bars
 * Yellow as an active color has been removed

Monobook.js
Essjays monobook.js has elements that are useful for all users, but particularly admins, including:

Tabs

 * The "edit this page" link has been reduced to read "edit".
 * A "purge" (purge server cache) tab is added to the top of every page.
 * A "last diff" tab is added to the top of every page, and automatically opens the "diff" screen.
 * New links and tabs added to the navagation and toolbox bars, depending on the page visited (see screencap), including a link to your personal monobook.js and to Interiot's tool on many pages. (Be sure to reset these functions to your username in the code.)

User
A "user" tab is added to user and talk pages. Hovering over it with the mouse pointer drops down a menu with a number of useful tabs. (See closeup at right.)


 * A "list" tab, which links to Special:Listusers for the user.
 * A "contrib" tab, which links to Special:Contributions for the user.
 * A "space" tab, which links to a Special:Allpages listing of the user's userspace.
 * An "count" tab, which links to Interiot's tool for the user.
 * A "whois" tab, which links to a Sam Spade WHOIS lookup for an IP. (This tab appears on all user/talk pages, but will only produce a useable result on IP pages, obviously.)
 * A "proxy" tab, which links to a restricted proxy-checking script maintained by User:Tawker on a private server. If you would like to use this tool, please contact Tawker for a password to the checking script, or insert the name of your preferred proxycheck script in the monobook.js code.)

Sysop

 * A "block", which takes admins to Special:Blockip and fills in the name of the user to be blocked in the username field.
 * A "log" tab, which links to the blocklog for that user.
 * An "unblock" tab, which links to the unblocking page (oddly, this is not Special:Unblock) and inserts the name of the user to be unblocked.
 * A "deleted" tab, which links to Interiot's Deleted Edit viewer.

Bcrat
A "bcrat" tab is added, but is unlikely to be useful for most users. This tab is bureaucrat specific, and adds three links:


 * "Sysop" links to Special:Makesysop and enters the user's name in the form. (You must still click "Make this user a sysop" to prevent accidental promotions.)
 * "Rename" links to Special:Renameuser and enters the user's name in the top field. The bureaucrat then enters the new username in the second field, and clicks "rename."
 * "Bot" links to Special:Makebot and enters the user's name in the field, bringing up the grant/revoke dialogue. The bureaucrat fills in the reason, and clicks the appropriate button.

Check
A "check" tab is added, but is unlikely to be useful for most users. This tab is checkuser specific, and adds three links:


 * "User" links to Special:Checkuser and adds the username in the "user" field.
 * "IP" links to Special:Checkuser and adds the IP address in the "IP" field.
 * "Log" links to the (private) checkuser log.

All of the above tabs require the associated permission, or the user will receive an error message. 

Personal Toolbar

 * The names of the functions have been shortened.
 * "Contribs" links to the expanded (500 per page) view of your contributions.
 * A dynamic clock is included (date and time show at the top of the page, and update continuously.)

Status Changer
I have a status changer script installed. It provides a custom menu (user defined) in the personal links bar at the top of the page. Mine allows the following status changes at one click: in, busy, hiding, out. I have other status settings predefined, but they must be set manually (such as "away" and "out of town").