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Moodle Theme Development

By : Silvina Paola Hillar
Book Image

Moodle Theme Development

By: Silvina Paola Hillar

Overview of this book

Theming is one of the main features of Moodle, and it can be used to customize your online courses and make them look exactly how you want them to,according to your target audience. If you have been looking for a book that will help you develop Moodle themes that you are proud of, and that your students will enjoy, then this is the book for you. We start off by introducing Moodle 3 and explaining what it is, how it works, and what tools you might need to create a stunning Moodle theme. We then show you how to choose and change the pre-installed Moodle themes in detailed steps, and explain what Moodle themes are and how they work. Next, we show you how to change an existing theme and test the changes that you have made. You can not only plan the customization of theme, but also tailor it using advanced Moodle theming processes; this book is your one-stop guide to creating your own personalized Moodle 3 theme.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Moodle Theme Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Dedication
Preface

Using HTML tags to define colors


HTML is found on all those pages that we find on the Internet. What we see on the screen has HTML code behind it. It also includes font colors, therefore we can change the color of text using HTML tags.

HTML tags are a bit complex. But we do not need to master the HTML standard in order to change colors. We can change colors using HTML code in a simple way. We can use a dynamic HTML color-code chart or an HTML code picker, such as the ones offered by the HTML Color Codes website: http://html-color-codes.info/ .

We can click on one of the color boxes in the chart and the site will display the selected color code, as shown in the following screenshot:

In this case, the selected color code is #FE642E. HTML codes define a color using a symbol (#) and a group of three two-digit hexadecimal numbers. Thus, we will see the # followed by six letters (A-F) or numbers (0-9). The three two-digit hexadecimal numbers represent the intensity of the red, green, and blue...