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    <title>New MediaWiki skin based off of MySkin: NullBook</title>
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    <published>2006-08-01T14:29:08-06:00</published>
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      <name>Samat Jain</name>
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    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>I've created a new theme for MediaWiki-based sites (by proxy, <a href="http://wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a> as well) called <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_user_styles#NullBook">NullBook</a>.</p>

<p>I do not like Monobook; I feel as if it wastes too much space on the screen, difficult to read, and doesn't follow established web usability guidelines. Some of NullBook's features:</p>

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<li>Fixed-position "tab bar", set to use GUI colors, that stays with you as you scroll down a page. The tab bar contains the contents of the "Views" menu, as well as the go/search box.</li>
<li>No font size definitions; uses your browser's default. Skin (mostly) scales well with font size changes.</li>
<li>Underlined links, and more recognizable link colors. Blue for unvisited links, purple for visited links, and green for broken (or uncreated) links. Moving over a link highlights it to red.</li>
<li>Removed sidebar to stop wasting vertical screen real-estate, and relocated it to the bottom of the page. Also hid the other languages list since I tend to only look at English Wikipedia articles.</li>
</ul>

<p>You can find more information about NullBook (including screenshots) by looking at the <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_user_styles#NullBook">NullBook section of WikiMedia's Gallery of user styles</a>.</p>
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