ISBN: 9789350230893    Publisher: Packt Year of publishing: 2010     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 312        Language: English

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. 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. What you will learn from this book: • Plan a Moodle theme from scratch • Install a Moodle theme and change Moodles theme settings • Add your own customized logo, title text and footer information and test your changes in several web browsers • Customize the Moodle site to fit in with other elements of your web site • Create a design mock-up using graphics software • Slice and dice your design mock-up and create your graphic elements • Build your theme using HTML and CSS • Create themes that you can share with the Moodle community • Theming core Moodle functionality Who this book is written for If you are a Moodle administrator, ICT technical personnel, designer or a teacher and wish to enhance your Moodle site to make it visually attractive, then this book is for you. You should be familiar with the basics of Moodle operation and some familiarity with web design techniques, such as HTML and CSS, will be helpful.
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