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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—making our changes permanent


  1. 1. Repeat the first seven steps of the previous exercise.

  2. 2. Scroll down the CSS (right-hand) window until you see the body selector. Copy it by highlighting the whole selector, as seen below, and then right-clicking and choosing Copy.

  3. 3. Navigate to your my_styles.css file that you created earlier in C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache 2.2\htdocs\themes\mytheme. Open this file by right-clicking and choosing Open With | WordPad.

  4. 4. Paste the CSS selector that you should have on your clipboard into this empty file.

  5. 5. Change the Arial font to Comic Sans MS and save the file.

  6. 6. Go back to your web browser and press the F5 key. As you can see below, you have now made the change to the body selector in the mytheme theme permanent without changing any CSS from the standard theme—the original standard theme has not been altered in any way.

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You have just learned how to make your CSS changes permanent by using Firebug. You...