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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

Chapter 3. Customizing the Header and Footer

This chapter will cover the steps needed to make changes to the header.html and footer.html files in the theme directory of your Moodle site. You will start by making some small changes, such as changing the logo and the title text so that you can see how easy it is to customize the header in Moodle. You will also look at some basic HTML recommendations to keep your Moodle theme standards-compliant. After this, you will move on to changing the footer, including removing the Moodle logo and the login information links and adding your own copyright or footer text. Finally, in this chapter, you will learn to check that your changes are standards-compliant and look similar in more than one web browser.

In this chapter, you shall:

  • Replace the Moodle logo with your own

  • Replace the title text with your own

  • Replace the footer logo and remove the login link

  • Add your own customized footer information

  • Download a different web browser

  • Test your changes in several...