User talk:SamByrdBlues

Hi SamByrdBlues -- we are excited to have Blues Wiki as part of the Wikia community!

Starting a new wiki can be overwhelming, but don't worry, the Wikia Community Team is here to help! We have put together a few guides to getting started. They say imitation is the best form of flattery so absolutely check out other wikis on Wikia for ideas on layout, ways to organize your content, etc. We are all one big family at Wikia and the most important thing is to have fun!


 * Our guide to Getting Started gives you 5 things you can do right now to set your wiki up for success
 * We also put together some Advice On Starting a Wiki which provides a more a in-depth look at some of the important things you should consider when building a wiki
 * If you are new to wikis in general than we recommend checking our new user FAQ

If you need help (which trust me we ALL do) you can access our full in-depth help at Help Wikia, or email us through our contact form. Also, you can visit our live #wikia chat channel any time. A lot of the veteran "Wikians" hang out here so its a good place if come if you want to get some advice or simply make friends.

Now, go edit! We look forward to seeing this project thrive!

Best wishes, Catherine Munro

Hello
Hi, I'm Wendy, a helper with the Entertainment group on wikia. I noticed that you had uploaded your logos to the wrong filename (you had PNG in all caps; it needs to be lower case). I moved Wiki_Wide.png for you; you should be able to see it on the skins now. Your Image:Wiki.PNG is too big; it should be 146x155 pixels or so. Do you want to remake it? I couldn't easily see how to get it to the right size simply by shrinking it, so I left it alone. I do like your logo -- it's nice and bold.

If there's anything else I can help you with (the favicon, menu-customization, more with the logos, getting things started, whatever) please leave me a note on my talk page! -- Wendy (talk ) 21:54, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Skins
Skin is the right word for it. You can see all the available standard options by going to your preferences and clicking the preview buttons. If you find a standard skin you like, then you can choose it and save your preferences. To make sure others view the site that way, you would edit MediaWiki:AdminSkin and put the name of the skin you like there. There are also ways to tweak and customize the default skins, but first why don't you pick one out that's at least close to what you want and then I can help you with any further tweaks you need.... -- Wendy (talk ) 01:50, 8 March 2008 (UTC)