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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 border around the central box


  1. 1. In your browser, open Firebug and click on the Inspect icon on the left-hand side.

  2. 2. Hover your mouse over the central box so that the very outside of the box is highlighted, as seen below:

  3. 3. View the inspect window in Firebug in the right-hand pane. Slightly confusing, isn't it? This is because we have several loginbox styles listed.

    An explanation of these styles is probably helpful. The top .loginbox style is to add the cur ved corner to the bott om of the box (this only works in Firefox). The two middle CSS styles just give the box its gray border. The bott om .loginbox style sets the width of the border, the width of the box, and its padding. You will need the first four styles here. So highlight each of the fi rst four styles and copy them one at a time into the user_styles.css file, as seen below:

  4. 4. Change the following lines of CSS, and then save the user_styles.css file. This is the CSS file that you created for your...