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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—setting the minimum and maximum block widths


  1. 1. From My Computer go to C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache 2.2\htdocs\theme\mytheme and right-click on the config.php file and choose Open With | WordPad.

  2. 2. Scroll to the bottom of the file and find the block width section of code.

    Note

    Point to note:

    You may have noticed that although the right-hand block's minimum width setting is the same as the left-hand one, it didn't get any smaller. This is because the calendar is one of the blocks that has its own block width settings and this is covered by the issues with block widths that you learned about in an earlier section.

    So, the only way to test the right-hand minimum width setting is to delete the calendar block. This can be added back at any time.

    This is a Moodle bug and has been reported as such.

  3. 3. Find the following top two lines of code in the block width code section:

    $lmin = (empty($THEME->block_l_min_width)) ? 100 : $THEME->block_l_min_width;
    $lmax...