As we approach the end of the book, let's just take a look back at Chapter 1, Getting Started. There, I pointed out that for the young students we are teaching, appearance is everything. It was important for us to make our course page appealing to the eye, and so we spent some time in adding images, changing font styles and colors, and trying to keep our resources in a neat order. We have a busy course, full of content, now. Although our Moodle course has got lots to keep our youngsters occupied, it still has that rather conventional Moodle layout of different topic sections, where we have to scroll down to reach the activity that we want.
On ordinary websites, the pages are much shorter, and you can get to the other sections by clicking on the text or on image hyperlinks. Moodle offers some additional course formats (extra to the topics section format we've been using) and they help a great deal to make your course page easier to navigate...