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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 background color


  1. 1. Click the word theme on your breadcrumb trail to take you back to the front page.

  2. 2. Open Firebug and click on the Inspect icon, and then hover your mouse over the Course categories box at the top of your Moodle site.

  3. 3. Inspect the CSS output in the right-hand Firebug window.

    The top line of CSS in the previous screenshot adds a margin of 9px to the body#site-index, the .heading block class, and the course-view heading block. Change is wanted only in the background of the Course category area, so you should leave the top class as it is. The second class only alters the font size of the text in the heading blocks, so you will also leave this for now. The third style is the one that we are aft er, which will change the background to all of the heading blocks. This is good, as it will create a consistent look throughout your theme.

  4. 4. Copy the third style and paste this into the user_styles.css file, as seen in the next two screenshots:

  5. 5. Add...