Forum:Christmas theme 2018

I've mentioned on the Discord server a few times that I'd like to bring back special wiki themes for the holidays. We discussed rolling out a Halloween theme, with the intent to put out the theme right about now and run it through Halloween and into the first couple days of November. For various reasons, however, this has not come to pass. I think part of the problem is that, while Discord does enable easy communication between people, it doesn't necessarily offer much in the way of long-term stable planning. The topic of conversation, especially in a more general-use channel, tends to move to other things too quickly so it's hard to plan out large complicated things like a theme change.

With all this in mind, I'd like to discuss the idea of implementing a special Wiki theme for Christmas. Right off the bat, I'd like to specify what needs to be changed, when it would be changed, etc... so there's no confusion, and all are clear on the timeline we'd be working under.


 * When?
 * Ideally, we'd be able to implement the Christmas theme sometime in early December. My goal would be to have everything set to go on December 1.


 * What needs to be done?
 * The wiki's theme is a collection of many different things, which all have to be changed in order to bring about a full theme change. These things are:
 * The Wiki wordmark (the "logo")
 * The wiki background image (which is currently the static "abstract green plumbbob" design)
 * The wiki navigation background image (currently a collage of a few TS4 renders of Sims)
 * Wiki bottom-bar and wiki button color
 * Main page "pagecover" image
 * Main page header bar and background colors

We already have existing examples of some of these elements, while others might need to be created (specifically the wiki background image and the navigation background image).

So... who wants to help with this? --  LostInRiverview talk · blog  ·  contribs 04:48, October 14, 2018 (UTC)