User blog comment:Yyp/New Wikia Skin:What we can expect?/@comment-1429792-20101016224025

Couple more staff responses (both from Sannse):


 * On the width, that was a combination of design choices, the "norm" for fixed width, and analysis of the various screen resolutions used by visitors to Wikia. We have looked at the idea of text going under the sidebar... but there are a couple of issues. Firstly, it's possible there will be future units that change the length of that sidebar (I mentioned the infobox unit idea), and secondly, it would be hard to design for a page with that variation. Imagine you had a big image in that area, and someone removed an excess paragraph at the top. Now that image collides with the sidebar.
 * Again, this isn't to say the current choices won't change -- we need to see how all this works in practice on 160,000 wikis first :)


 * this is the first version of the Theme Designer, there are likely to be new additions we see how it's used. The 100k limit is important I think, I've seen wikis with vast background files that load on all pages... that's going to significantly affect loading times - and loading times affect not only the irritation levels of those loading them, but Google rankings too. One thing I'd like to see in the future (and I don't even know if it's possible) is the ability to upload a large file, and have it automatically optimized to be the background.