Moodle 1.9 theme design : beginner's guide : customize the appearance of your Moodle Theme by using Moodle's powerful theming engine / Paul James Gadsdon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gadsdon, Paul James.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer-assisted instruction--Computer programs--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Computer-assisted instruction.

Instructional systems--Design--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Instructional systems.

Open source software--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Open source software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, U.K. : Packt Pub., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Gadsdon Paul: Paul James Gadsdon has been a web designer/developer since 1996. He specializes in graphic design, ASP, ASP. net, PHP, and DotNetNuke. He has recently been working as an educational technologist and currently works as a Moodle Virtual Learning Environment developer for the University of Wales, Lampeter. Trust Moodle: Moodle is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalised learning environments.

Summary:

Customize the appearance of your Moodle Theme using its powerful theming engine.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewer; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: An Introduction to Moodle; What are Virtual Learning Environments?; Importing/exporting and/or creation of course materials; Delivery of course materials over the Internet; Communication and collaboration between students and educators; Online tracking and assessment of student progress; Modularized activities and resources; Customization of the interface; What types of VLEs are there?; What are the advantages of using a VLE?; What is Moodle?; Why should I use Moodle?; Features; Philosophy

CommunityFree and open source; What will you be doing?; What skills will you need?; Tools for the job; Hardware; Software; Adobe Photoshop; Firefox; FileZilla; Other web browsers; Summary; Chapter 2: Moodle Themes; Important preliminary points; What is a Moodle theme?; Browsing and selecting a Moodle theme; Time for action - browsing and selecting a Moodle theme; Theme types; Theme priority; Parent themes; Theme directory; Time for action - browsing the 'Standard' theme folder; The pix folder; config.php; meta.php; doctyles.php; screenshot.jpg; favicon.ico; README.html; header/footer.html

styles_moz.cssstyles_ie6.css; styles_ie7.css; styles_fonts.css; styles_color.css; styles_layout.css; rtl.css; Searching for and downloading Moodle themes; Time for action - searching for Moodle themes; Installing a new Moodle theme; Time for action - downloading a new Moodle theme; Time for action - extracting and installing your Moodle theme; Moodle's theme settings; Time for action - forcing users to use your theme choices; Theme settings list; Theme list; Allow user themes; Allow course themes; Allow category themes; Allow users to hide blocks; Show blocks on module pages

Hide activity type navigationSummary; Chapter 3: Customizing the Header and Footer; Important preliminary points; Customizing the header; Time for action - making a copy of the standard theme; Adding your own logo; Time for action - copying your logo to your mytheme directory; Time for action - adding the logo code to your header.html file; Time for action - adding the logo code to your; header.html file again!; Making your own Moodle logo visible; Time for action - changing the title text; Customizing the footer; Removing the Moodle logo; Time for action - deleting the Moodle logo

Removing the login info text and linkTime for action - deleting the login info text; Time for action - adding your own footer text; Browser compatibility - checking whether your changes have worked; Time for action - installing Mozilla Firefox; Time for action - checking whether your changes have worked; Recommendations; Summary; Chapter 4: Adjusting the Colors and Fonts; Important preliminary points; Installing Firebug and the Web Developer Toolbar; Time for action - installing the Firebug extension for Firefox; Cascading Style Sheets and Moodle

Time for action - creating a new Cascading Style Sheet

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786612557422

9781282557420

1282557424

9781849510158

1849510156

OCLC:

797916612