User talk:Rmlucas
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Rob,
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[edit] MediaWiki:Sidebar
If you should need to, MediaWiki:Sidebar is a page where you can change what shows in the navigation box of the left sidebar. You can also create more boxes there if you wish and or change the title of the navigation box there. Everything from the search box down is controlled in PHP files on the server though. -- :-) Roger 18:05, 25 November 2006 (PST)
[edit] Logo
Logo and favicon ideas are on display in the Community Portal. I don't mind if someone comes up with something better but it might be best to use what we have for now rather than have folks look at the kinda ugly "Set $wgLogo to..." that we have up now.
To set my logo idea Image:OERGpv-logo-roger1.png as the current (not necessarily permanent) logo you would set $wgLogo in LocalSettings.php. To keep track of original settings I always leave them in LocalSettings.php and just comment them out and follow them with my own, like this, so I always have an example of the correct syntax in front of me:
# $wgLogo = "$wgStylePath/common/images/wiki.png"; $wgLogo = "images/4/48/OERGpv-logo-roger1.png";
[edit] Favicon
To set one of my favicon ideas as the current favicon, you would simply put a copy of its .ico into the top dir of the site, ~/oergrapevine.org/, by logging into the server and doing something like this.
If you want the purple favicon 
:
cd ~/oergrapevine.org cp images/2/21/OERGpv-favicon.3.ico favicon.ico
If you want the green favicon 
:
cd ~/oergrapevine.org cp images/9/99/OERGpv-favicon.2.ico favicon.ico
[edit] Default pages
It helps to put something helpful even if brief on all the default pages that are linked to
- at page bottom
- in left sidebar
- on the Edit page
-- :-) Roger 18:05, 25 November 2006 (PST)
