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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 header fonts


  1. 1. Go back to your browser and make sure that your Moodle site is visible.

  2. 2. Open Firebug again, click on the Inspect icon, and then hover your mouse over the Course categories area as you did in the last task. You should see the same output in the right-hand Firebug window as before.

  3. 3. Copy the second style and paste this into your user_styles.css file.

  4. 4. Change the following line:

    font-size:1.1em;

    to:

    font-size:1.0em;
    

    Note

    The pixel measurement em is a relative font-size and is dependent on the size that the font is set to by the parent element and by the user's browser. 1.0 em is equal to the current font size.

  5. 5. Save your user_styles.css file and refresh your browser window.

What just happened?

You have just reduced the font-size in the Course categories and Site news headers by a small amount. If you wish, you can experiment and try to change the color of the font used in the .headingblock class as well.