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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—changing the link colors


  1. 1. Open your web browser and browse to your Moodle site.

  2. 2. Open Firebug by clicking on the Firebug icon or by pressing the F12 key.

  3. 3. Click on the inspect icon and roll your mouse over one of the site administration links.

  4. 4. Copy the second CSS class and paste it in your my_style.css file (under the body class).

    a:link, a:visited {
    color:#0000FF;
    }
    
  5. 5. Change the color: #0000FF; to #000000;—the former is the standard blue link and the latter is black. Save your my_style.css file and refresh your browser. All the links (visited and unvisited) should now be black.

    Note

    Please note: I wouldn't ordinarily advise people to have the same color for their link and visited link selectors because this can detract from the normal functionality of the link selectors. It is a useful feature to have different colors for these selectors because the users can easily identify where they have been, as the links change color once they are clicked.

  6. 6. Following on from...