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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

Testing your changes


The final part of this chapter will be to test all of the changes that you have made. I do hope that you have been thinking about this as you worked through the exercises in the chapter. There is nothing worse than working for three hours only to find that the changes that you have made do not work in another browser.

It's also worth pointing out again that all browsers are different and handle HTML and CSS in different ways. So don't be too worried about getting your Moodle theme to look exactly the same in all of the different browsers. Just try to get your theme to look okay in most browsers, and if there are tiny visual differences, don't worry too much.

So now you are going to view your Moodle theme in several different browsers. There will not be any exercises in this section; I will just give you some screenshots and comments about any differences encountered.

Microsoft's Windows Internet Explorer 8.0

The first browser that you are going to test with is Microsoft...