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Moodle 1.9 Theme Design: Beginner's Guide

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Moodle 1.9 Theme Design: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Moodle is a highly extensible virtual learning environment and is used to deliver online teaching and training materials. Theming is one of the main features of Moodle that can be used to customize your online courses and make them look exactly how you want them to. If you have been looking for a book that will help you develop Moodle Themes that you are proud of, and that your students would enjoy, then this is the book for you.This book will show you how to create themes for Moodle, change pre-installed Moodle themes, and download new themes from various resources on the Internet. It is filled with suggestions and examples for adapting classroom activities to the Virtual Learning Environment.This book starts off by introducing Moodle, explaining what it is, how it works, and what tools you might need to create a stunning Moodle theme. It then moves on to show you in detailed steps how to choose and change a Moodle theme, and explains what Moodle themes are and how they work. It shows you how to change an existing theme and test the changes that you have made.The latter half of this book will start you off on the road to creating your own themes from scratch. It provides detailed instructions to guide you through the stages of creating a stunning theme for your Moodle site. From planning theme creation, through to the slicing and dicing, and more advanced Moodle theming processes, this book will give you step-by-step instructions to create your own Moodle theme.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 Theme Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Glossary of Useful Terms and Acronyms

Time for action—customizing the forum


  1. 1. Open Firebug and hover your mouse over the Discussion box as seen below:

  2. 2. Copy the top CSS class from the Firebug window, and paste it into the bottom of your user_styles.css file.

  3. 3. Change this CSS statement so that the class looks like the one below:

  4. 4. Save and refresh your browser window.

  5. 5. Now click on the Inspect icon in Firebug and hover your mouse over the forum name, and then copy the top class from your Firebug window. Paste this copied class into your user_styles.css file.

  6. 6. Change the CSS code to look like the following screenshot:

  7. 7. Repeat this for the lastpost forum header and the lastpost content area below it, and change the two classes to look like the next screenshot:

  8. 8. Save the file, and then refresh your browser.

What just happened?

In the last exercise, you changed several parts of the forum module. You have added the same gradient background to the forum header that you used for the block headers. You also changed the background...