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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—setting the margins and adding a logo


  1. 1. Using Firebug, roll your mouse over the blue header section until you get a blue line around the whole page. This is known as selecting a page element in Firebug.

    Note

    We used the Rectangular Marquee tool in Photoshop to measure the height of our header. There is a specific measurement tool on the Tools palette, but it is rather difficult to use. Feel free to try it out if you would rather use the proper tools for the job. Also, when you selected the area you needed to measure, you might have found it a little difficult. If so, try zooming in to the design by pressing Ctrl and + on your keyboard.

  2. 2. Now highlight the body class in the right-hand Firebug window and choose Copy, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. 3. Open your user_styles.css file and paste this text above the other CSS code. Then add the following line of CSS:

    margin:0px;
    
  4. 4. Now refresh your browser window, and you should see something similar to the following screenshot...