Forum:Width adjustments for the new skin

Wikia's new skin is something we're going to have to use as our default skin after the 20th of October, regardless of whether most users here like it or not.

Since we're going to be using it, there are a few changes we might have to make. One of the biggest issues with the new skin is the width of content pages. The width of articles, excluding the sidebar and borders is going to be 660 pixels. Problems with this are:
 * Card articles usually have a 400 pixel wide image, leaving everything else squashed.
 * Most if not all infoboxes are 300 pixes wide, so the article text next to it is just under 360 pixels wide. This one isn't too bad.
 * Tables with lots of columns are messy.
 * Galleries, I think will overlap the sidebar. (The sidebar doesn't appear in the "Card Gallery" or "Set Card Galleries" namespaces at the moment, but that will be changed soon.)

The reason for the width changes are:
 * Everything looks the same in all screen resolutions.
 * The 300x250 box ad can be placed at the top of the sidebar, rather than in the article itself, pushing everything out of place.
 * People find it easier to read when the text is spread over many short lines rather than a few long ones.

I want to ask what changes everyone else thinks we should make to said problems.
 * I think the width of the image in card articles is something that definitely needs to be changed. I suggest making it 300 pixels rather than 400.
 * Infoboxes could be reduced to something like 250, but it might be okay to leave them as they are.
 * Some tables could need complete reformatting.
 * Galleries, I think we should change to three per row rather than shrink the images further.

I've added some screenshots of what stuff is currently like and some possible changes below.

If anyone wants to view the new skin for themself, they can change their skin in Special:Preferences or just add ?useskin=wikia or &useskin=wikia to the end of urls. -- Deltaneos (talk) 23:32, October 14, 2010 (UTC)