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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

Important preliminary points


In order to continue with the exercises in the chapter, you will need to understand the importance of web browser compatibility. All web browsers are different, and most of them handle HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) differently. It is not so much that one web browser is better than another or that one web browser is more accurate at rendering HTML or CSS. Rather, it's that CSS rules are often interpreted differently by software developers who designed these browsers. For web developers and designers, this can be very annoying, but an unfortunate and inevitable reality.

So, to make sure that the changes that you make to Moodle's theme files are the same or similar across most of the major web browsers, you will need to install various web browsers, such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera, Safari, and so on, and make sure that you remember to test your changes. You shall learn to install the required web browsers as you work through this chapter...