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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 glossary resource


  1. 1. Open your user_styles.css file, and enter the following code into it, just as you did with the forum post:

  2. 2. Save this file, and then refresh your browser window. You have just made the bottom corners of the glossary post less rounded, just as you did with the forum post exercise.

  3. 3. Now open the user_styles.css file again, and enter the following CSS code. Save the file, and then refresh your browser.

A tip to consider is that if you can't find the correct styles by using Firebug, you can go to the standard theme's folder and find the styles for that particular module or glossary, and copy them all. You can then paste them into your user_styles.css file and slowly make changes to each individual style until you see the area that you are working on change. In this way, you can identify the correct styles for any given element on your Moodle site.

Have a go hero—adding a gradient background to all posts

When you added a gradient header...