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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

Setting the minimum and maximum width of the blocks


You would have noticed in the last couple of tasks that there was a minimum and maximum block width that could be set. This setting enables the Moodle themer to have control over the block's column widths in such a way that the columns will stretch to a maximum width and contract to a minimum width, so that the block's contents do not get squashed if the screen size is small. This will work only if you have a full-screen liquid layout (relative), and it is a good way of making sure that your blocks remain within a certain size tolerance.

In the last exercise, you set both the minimum and the maximum block sizes to the same values because you currently have a fixed width layout.

In the next exercise, you will be setting both the minimum and the maximum block widths to different values. In order to see this work properly, you will have to change your theme from a fixed width layout back to the original liquid layout.