Wonderful theme, it looks really well on my Moodle installation. However, the tables appear to go all wrong (even with a clean installation) in Moodle 1.9+

Moodle messes up the layout so I get white stripes between the main logo and the photograph beneath it... this happens without modifying any php/css file... any help would be greatly appreciated!

Problem solved.

Also tried sending/receiving messages with the theme using Moodle's built-in message module. For me the default windowsize doesn't fit well, all messages arrive filled with scrollboxes, making it a rather cumbersome view. Is this something that can easily be fixed?

EduMoodle Fixes

EduMoodle has had some minor adjustments made over the last 48 hours.

Latest version is now available with fixes.

The EduMoodle Theme has now had some fixes applied to make it more compatible with IE and version 1.9 of Moodle.

Specifically:

Messaging window pop-up and contacts list.

Files - Files pop-up screen when choosing or uploading a file.

Tabs - IE css setup correctly now using meta.php which was originally pointing to the standard theme incorrectly.

If you have already downloaded the original version of the theme you will need to download the latest zip file above.

The individual files that require replacement are:

config.php
meta.php
styles_layout.css

The default setup is to use the standard moodle theme.

Hi Dan!

Thanks for replying. I've listed my changes below.

To config.php:
I've set $THEME->standardsheets = false; - the default is true and it gave my white stripes in the theme. Possibly because I still have the standard theme installed?

To styles_layout.css:
Ive appended the last area so it reads like this:

/*Accessibility: Skip block link, for keyboard-only users. */
a.skip-block, a.skip {
position: absolute;
top: -1000em;
font-size: 0.85em;
}
a.skip-block:focus, a.skip-block:active,
a.skip:focus, a.skip:active {
position: static;
display: block;
}
.skip-block-to, #maincontent {
display: block;
height: 1px;
}

For me, it removed the annoying "Show Main Content" link which appeared on top of every page (Moodle 1.9+). I can't really see if some of the stuff I've listed above was already in the file, but the #maincontent one, I copied-and-posted from the standard theme.

All is fixed and the theme looks wonderful. Thanks for your quick help, Dan. EduMoodle is going to be the theme for my school come september!

Hi Dan,

I'm sorry to inform you that the problem still isn't entirely fixed. For example, when I begin an empty discussion with someone and send that person a message, the window is still not the correct size... So when I click the mail-icon next to the name, the following occurs...

Change styles_layout.css:

#message-send {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
margin-left: -240px;
}

This will centre the text box for Firefox users, but IE users will see the box on the left hand side of the page.

I just cant think of the CSS hack that will make a CSS entry visible to Firefox only? Basically the margin-left: is not required for IE but is for Firefox. OR a hack which will tell IE to ignore this line?

Here I am again with a question!

I really love the theme, I've customized it a few times now for my school, just like Newbury does. So my students can pick several colour schemes come september. The theme is very easy to modify this way!

Now I'm really liking that menubar.php. I've tried to modify header.html and removed the:

<div class="menubar">
<?php
{
include('menubar.php');
}
?>
</div>

code from the "mainpage only" area. I've put it in the "<?php } else if ($heading) {" area.

This works beautifully, the menubar gets printed on every page. However, it also gets printed on (here we go again) the messages-window etc. Is there an easy way to exclude those pages from getting this menubar?

Ok. I am currently using this theme and it is GREAT!
Everything has worked out perfectly so far. I was able to lengthen my slideshow and and customize the menu bar. The layout has worked perfectly.

I have just one issue I cannot seem to figure out.

I am trying to embed a .wav file into the home page of my moodle site, yet cannot get it to work. Any help you could provide on this would be great!

Unfortunately, I've stumbled across another fixed-width issue... when trying to view a glossary-item, the window isn't resized properly as well. I've tried adding the following to styles-layout.php, but no success:

#mod-resource-view #page {
width: 980px;
margin: 0;
}
#mod-glossary-showentry #page {
width: 980px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#mod-glossary-index #page {
width: 980px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
body#mod-resource-view {
width: 980px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
body#mod-glossary-showentry {
width: 980px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

It is the mod/glossary/showentry.php file that is called, so I'm somewhat baffled how to fix this... am I using the wrong syntaxis?

And I haven't tried uploading the Standard-theme again, but is it just my site or does the Backup feature refuse to render properly with this theme?

Dan, I'm sorry to pile all this on you, it's just that the theme is wonderful to work with and I'd love to have full functionality! Any time you can spare would be great!

Meh, never mind the Backup-issue. I left a } too many in the styles-layout.php. The other issues still remain, unfortunately.

For your info...

i was getting :
"SoftException in Application.cpp:238: File "/home/myname/public_html/moodle/theme/edumoodle/styles.php" is writeable by group"

after unzipping and uploading the theme to my moodle website.
and the entire theme did not work

after changing the permission on styles.php no-group-write it worked fine


great theme !
thank you

I have a probleme with the theme and the lightbox gallery.

These doesn't work correctly.

Please help us!

great theme

thank you

Sepp, what exactly is your problem with the Lightbox Gallery? I installed it into this theme and it works without a hitch. The only problem is that by default it's being set to "Invisible". But that's easily corrected.

Hola a Todos...

Me parece excelente el Theme, muy bien concebido, pero me sigue presentando problemas con 1.9.x, no encuentro donde está publicado con las mejoras para las veriones 1.9.X.

De verda que no lo encuentro.

La aplicación en: http://www.indegroep.nl/mod/forum/view.php?id=1# también es muy buena pero tampoco permite descargarla la versión.

Gracias,
Marcelo Gómez

<div class="FrontSlideshow">
    <!-- Slideshow Code -->
        <script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo $CFG->themewww .'/'. current_theme() ?>/slideshow/rokslideshow/mootools-release-1.11.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo $CFG->themewww .'/'. current_theme() ?>/slideshow/rokslideshow/rokslideshow.js"></script>

        <link href="<?php echo $CFG->themewww .'/'. current_theme() ?>/slideshow/styles/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <!-- Slideshow Code End -->

Jaap, how did you get icons onto your menun bar?
Your page is fantastic!
Love the colours and love the icons...

Love this theme!

I have one slight problem. When I attempt to change the images in the slideshow they do not display right. They are cut off as if they are too small. I have checked the height and width of the originals and they are the same. What am I doing wrong.

Mike

Jaap,

Do you have a copy of your menubar.php file you could share. I really like the way you did this and would like to build off of it if its ok with you.

Mike,

Were you able to fix your problem? I too have same problem. Thanks