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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 link styles


  1. 1. Open up the user_styles.css file if it is not already open.

  2. 2. Open Firefox, then open Firebug, and click on the Inspect icon.

  3. 3. Hover your mouse over one of the links in the Site Administration block (make sure that you are logged in as an administrator).

  4. 4. Copy the two top CSS classes as seen in the next screenshot (you will need to copy these separately) and paste them into the bottom of your user_styles.css file.

  5. 5. If you look back to the Have a go hero section in Chapter 6, Planning your Moodle Theme, you should remember that you set the font-color to #3a5083 and set the font-weight to bold. Now change the a:link, a:visited, and a:hover classes to match the next screenshot, and then save your changes.

  6. 6. Refresh your browser, and check whether the changes have been successful; hover your mouse pointer over a link to check that it turns black.

What just happened?

In the last two exercises, you changed the body font to Trebuchet MS, and...