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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—copying and pasting the width code from index.php to config.php


  1. 1. From My Computer, go to C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache 2.2\htdocs and locate the index.php file.

  2. 2. Right-click on this file and choose Open with | WordPad.

  3. 3. Copy the following lines of code by highlighting the text, right-clicking, and then choosing Copy.

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

  5. 5. Scroll to the bottom of the file, right-click on a blank line before the closing ?>, and choose Paste to paste the code as set out below, and then save your config.php file.

  6. 6. Refresh your browser window, and nothing should have changed. Nothing has changed because you are using the same widths as set in the code that you copied and pasted into your config.php file.

    Conti nuing with this task, you are simply going to change the width of the left -hand blocks...