Getting there…
I a little happier with Mediwiki now that I have been able to change the Monobook CSS.  I highly recommend the following tutorial: MediaWiki Restyling 1.  It took me a little while to figure out what to include and where it should go but the work was made much easier with FireFox’s Web Developer.  I based the work that I have done off of a CSS that I had found awhile back that I currenlty use on my Online Learning Resources page.  Check out the changes so far here: http://www.mirliss.com/wiki/; it might not look like alot but it took me awhile to figure it all out.  The last thing that I need to do (in addition to adding some content) is create a nice header – almost got it but it is going to take some additional work.  Changes so far… (pic is just a placeholder)