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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—copying the header.html and footer.html files


  1. 1. Browse to the Autumn theme's folder and highlight both the header.html and footer.html files by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking on them both. Right-click on the selected files and choose Copy.

  2. 2. Browse to your blackandblue theme's folder, right-click, and choose Paste.

  3. 3. Go back to your browser window and press the F5 button to refresh the page. You will now see the full Autumn theme.

What just happened?

You have copied the autumn theme's header.html and footer.html files into your blackandblue theme, so you can see the full Autumn theme working. You probably will not actually use the header.html and footer.html files that you just copied, as this was just an example of how the Moodle theming process works.

So you now have an unmodified copy of the standard theme called blackandblue, which is using the autumn theme as its parent theme. All you need to do now to make changes to this theme is to edit your CSS file in...