Your Simple Skins are AWESOME
Posted: March 16th, 2009, 3:05 pm
Hey paul... your skins are terrific. I am completely new to CMS and webpage building, and the amount of anxiety i get just by looking at MediaWiki makes me sick -- and then to think how im gonna get rid of all that useless clutter makes me sicker. I dont know what any of that clutter does, and frankly i dont care. Not interested. All i wanted was a simple site that does simple functions!! Thanks for providing plenty great skins. (now ive got to figure out how to install it!)
I have a suggestion for you too. You obviously know how to make complex things simple. While I was searching the bottomless pit of the internet for non-techie instructions on how to build my own site with MediaWiki, i found nothing. Some things came close, but nothing ever could answer the question of all questions:
Q: Ok, so you tell me to type in "yadieyadie" in the localsettings.php file to change this to that. How do i get to the localsettings file??? what is it??? Why do i have to type in CODE to just get rid of a menu item???
Basically, no one has ever been attempted to explain, or chart out, the format/process of MediaWiki. Whats a php? what language do i need to know (and how do i learn it) in order to use a php?? (why cant mediawiki just get a regular user-friendly interface?? can you tell im frustrated? agh.)
ok! thanks for your work! let me know if you need a test dummy to see if things are sufficiently "dummied down"
I have a suggestion for you too. You obviously know how to make complex things simple. While I was searching the bottomless pit of the internet for non-techie instructions on how to build my own site with MediaWiki, i found nothing. Some things came close, but nothing ever could answer the question of all questions:
Q: Ok, so you tell me to type in "yadieyadie" in the localsettings.php file to change this to that. How do i get to the localsettings file??? what is it??? Why do i have to type in CODE to just get rid of a menu item???
Basically, no one has ever been attempted to explain, or chart out, the format/process of MediaWiki. Whats a php? what language do i need to know (and how do i learn it) in order to use a php?? (why cant mediawiki just get a regular user-friendly interface?? can you tell im frustrated? agh.)
ok! thanks for your work! let me know if you need a test dummy to see if things are sufficiently "dummied down"