Forum:Changing color or skin after creating a wiki

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I have already created a wiki, but now I don't like the color and/or the skin I chose. Is there a way to change these things? Actually I like the skin "Monaco" and that's what I have but I want to change the background color of the pages from lavender to white. I see that there is a white background monaco skin. Can I change to that now that I cannot delete or move this wiki to another address (too much time devoted already)? -- Muhammad2017 (talk) 11:39, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi Muhammad, Send the theme name and your wiki domain to support@shoutwiki.com and we'll change it for you. Best regards.--Cook879 ShoutWiki Staff talk 14:05, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. The wiki is named "42". I want the background colors of all the pages to be 'white' instead of 'lavender'. Another thing: can a general user do this himself using css or something like that? If so could you add any tutorial somewhere on how to do that? -- Muhammad2017 (talk) 10:07, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
There is a page on your wiki called MediaWiki:skinname.css where skinname is the name of the skin. For example, Vector's CSS would be at MediaWiki:Vector.css. CSS on these pages is the same as CSS anywhere else. You just have to know the names of the elements you want to change. (If you use Firefox, you can just right click then select "Inspect Element". ☆The Solar DragonShoutWiki Staff 10:10, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
I created a few gadgets on my Orain based wiki that might be what you're looking for. You can find them here. They are based on the various alternative skin themes built into Monaco. Arcane (talk) 20:42, 4 October 2013 (UTC)Arcane
Thanks everyone for the suggestions I finally could do what I wanted, i.e. changing the background color of the text area to white. For others who might look for the same thing I am pasting below the code I used. I changed the "MediaWiki:Common.css" as that automatically works in every skin.
/* CSS placed here will be applied to all skins */
 
/* To change the background colors of only the text areas of all the pages to "White" */
 
#article {
background-color:#ffffff;
}
 
#articleFooter {
background-color:#ffffff;
}