New version is out...
http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=26&rid=2618
It's VERY different, but also not so different, still sorry to those who like the old style, you're more than welcome and encouraged even to modify the theme to match your organisation.
The font I used is called "Christopherhand" by El Stinger
Note of the authorDear Fans of my Font!
I’m getting so many requests lately, that I can’t answer them all, so I hope you all read this note.
I’m not a professional fontdesigner and I never planned to make profit out of it, so here are my guidelines:
1. If you want to use it personally (print a t-shirt, use it on your own webpage…) – feel free to do so.
2. If you want to use it professionally (i.e. make money in any way by using it, like printing t-shirts and selling them) don’t ask for any license since I don’t know how or wouldn’t have time to handle it.
If you would however like to show me your appreciation, send me an e-mail, I’ll give you my adress and you can send me something from your hometown (a hard rock café t-shirt - in Size XL - a coffemug or a bottle of tequila, whatever…).
THANX
For the columns you need to remove the fixed width of the links...
#aardvark_menu li ul li{
list-style:none;
float:left;
background:transparent;
padding-left:9px;
height: auto;
font-size:0.9em;
width:12em;
}
)Don't use FTP use your hosting companies file manager. But I think Shaun has fixed this now so you could download it again and try it. (Something to do with files built half on mac,half on windows)
PS. You need to extract file using hosting companies file manager
Hope this problem is resolved soon...I'm running out of ideas! LOLGood morning, Jonathan Konrad'm new here in the community moodle, I wonder if you can give me a help on how to make a menu similar to yours? The problem is that I understand very little about html and css, as long as a thank you.
Hi You might find this document useful.
http://docs.moodle.org/22/en/Theme_settings#Custom_menu_items
Mary
Thanks Mary, I'll try here.
Can I ask a follow up to this...
I want some menus to have submenus but others not to...
Rob
Great thanks Mary works perfectly!
Rob
Hi, I liked your theme. I'm using and learning a lot from it. I'm an amateur and I have a question.
I made some changes to the lay-out and after that I can not view the image that shows a box of grouped activities in the body of the course. See the figure below. I speak of the vertical gray bar that involves the number 9 (in red).
This bar is gone.
Where do I set up this bar? I searched in aardvark.css, couse-view but I could not make it appear again.
Thanks.
Fantastic theme - thanks.
I just have a couple of problems at the moment
Cheers,
Lee
Thanks Mary...
Cheers,
Lee
Richard,
Perhaps you are working on things at the moment but the menu isn't showing properly for me (Windows 7, IE8). The first two menu items dropdown fine but the others are messed up.
Thanks Mary,
Can add IE7 and Chrome to the list of browsers it works on too. So seems the problems are just with IE8. Plan on investigating it tonight (in front of the Superbowl!)
Been doing some reading through and found some of the known issues in MS' latest offering including this one.
Guess if I'm going to get more involved in this sort of thing then I need to download some more of the alternative browsers as you have so that I can do more testing in them and not just rely on the ones I normally use myself 
Its not just the php and css to learn - its how to get things across so that other people can use them cross browser (and basically the how to be a developer bit - even on a small scale!!!)
OK Lee,
Had some chance to take a quick look at this problem. first off, apologies - I had IE7 on my winXP laptop, not IE8, have now downloaded IE8 on there and replicated the issue you had with the menus.
IE8 has a compatibility view button next to the address bar (I believe this can be turned on and off like other toolbars if it is not on there - right click on one of the toolbars and select the Compatablity View button). If you click this button to activitate the compatibility view, then the menus work as expected.
Looking at the discussions around (away from MS' own pages) this appears to be something to do with whether a site/browser is standards compliant or not. From my own point of view, if it works on Firefox, Chrome, IE7 I'm not sure if I have the expertise (or to be honest the time as this is more of a hobby fun/learning thing for me) to be able to explore the inner workings of the yui menu system to ensure it works in IE8. That may seem bl**dy-minded of me, but although I am happy to use IE in work, I do tend towards the advice given in several of the other comments on the forum - dump IE and use a decent browser . Perhaps someone with more expertise can comment on whether the problem is with the css/php code used, which I would be more than happy to look into, or with the yui menu javascript in the background, which would need developer input from someone far more experienced than myself.
Hope that's helpful Lee
Richard
Mary
Many thanks for all your help with this and the links you've provided - looking at the csshover one now
Like the new logo and the menu layout on your demo site - very appropriate for this current discussion topic of menus LOL!
Richard
Hi Lee,
Thanks to help from Mary and other research here think I have sorted the IE8 issue with my menus! 
IE8 has compatability issues with yui 2.6 which is the version in the moodle library by default. Initially corrected this using Mary's suggestion (see other posts in this thread) using peterned's whatever:hover script. That worked for the layout issue but left the inconsistently disappearing menus. With reading up, I decided to upgrade the yui library in my moodle installation to yui2.8 (so far I haven't found any problems with this, fingers crossed!) which means the whatever:hover script isn't needed as Yahoo! dealt with most of the IE8 issues within their own code in v2.7. Unfortunately, that still didn't cure the disappearing menus so followed Patrick's suggestion (after all the menu is taken from his base_menu code originally) and went right back to his original code making one change at a time (as I had done before - but this time checking it on IE8 as well as Firefox!) and testing everything. Discovered that the problem was in some padding changes I had made in the css file - causing the submenu and the top bar to overlap I guess. With that corrected, was able to go back to my menu with the conditional statements for the different users and, hopefully, now it works OK.
So it was both a problem with IE8 and with my css code - only thing I don't really understand is how that caused this effect in IE8 but not in any of the other browsers.
One thing outstanding is the opaque effect that still doesn't work in IE8 - but that does not effect the working of the menu, so for the moment, I'm going to let that one go. and hopefully implement this menu on my school site shortly.
Oh - updated code etc. will be on my sandbox site shortly for those who want access to it.
Hi - I am back on the moodle trail again!!
I am using the purple / pink theme of Aardvark-stf and I am having this error with the profile c=block when a user is not logged in. I have tried remving the "or isguestuser()) and I still get php errors about {
My Profile block is as follows..
HTH.
Thanks in advance
<div class="profilepic" id="profilepic">
<?PHP
echo '<a href="'.$CFG->wwwroot.'/user/view.php?id='.$USER->id.'&course='.$COURSE->id.'"><img src="'.$CFG->wwwroot.'/user/pix.php?file=/'.$USER->id.'/f1.jpg" width="80px" height="80px" title="'.$USER->firstname.' '.$USER->lastname.'" alt="'.$USER->firstname.' '.$USER->lastname.'" /></a>';
?>
</div>
<div class="profilename" id="profilename">
<?PHP
function get_content () {
global $USER, $CFG, $SESSION, $COURSE;
$wwwroot = '';
$signup = '';}
if (empty($CFG->loginhttps)) {
$wwwroot = $CFG->wwwroot;
} else {
$wwwroot = str_replace("http://", "https://", $CFG->wwwroot);
}
if (!isloggedin() or isguestuser()) {
echo '<a href="'.$CFG->wwwroot.'/login/index.php">'.get_string('loggedinnot').'</a>';
} else {
echo '<a href="'.$CFG->wwwroot.'/user/view.php?id='.$USER->id.'&course='.$COURSE->id.'">'.$USER->firstname.' '.$USER->lastname.'</a>';
}
?>
</div>
<div class="profileoptions" id="profileoptions">
<?PHP
if (!isloggedin() or isguestuser()) {
echo '<ul>';
echo '<li><a href="'.$CFG->wwwroot.'/login/index.php">'.get_string('login').'</a></li>';
echo '</ul>';
} else {
echo '<ul>';
echo '<li><a href="'.$CFG->wwwroot.'/user/edit.php?id='.$USER->id.'&course='.$COURSE->id.'">'.get_string('updatemyprofile').'</a></li>';
echo '<li><a href="'.$CFG->wwwroot.'/my">'.get_string('mycourses').'</a></li>';
echo '<li><a href="'.$CFG->wwwroot.'/login/logout.php?sesskey='.sesskey().'">'.get_string('logout').'</a></li>';
echo '</ul>';
}
?>
</div>
Stephen,
I think I might write a Moodle Doc to add all the fixes for this theme!
Fix attached to this post. Just open the file in Notepad then copy-n-paste code into your profileblock.php overwriting the first section relating to the profile pic.
HTH
Mary
Thanks for your help Mary.
I fixed it by removing this
title="'.$USER->firstname.' '.$USER->lastname.'" alt="'.$USER->firstname.' '.$USER->lastname.'"
Is that ok?
Thanks
S
I think it's tidier using the little bit of code I added, but if you want to delete that line of code, and it works for you, that's fine.
Mary
OK. Thanks I will add the new code to replace my hack.
Now I know you love the Aardvark Header. How about this!!
I would like the CEOP Logo on the site and if you visit http://vle.ladypool.bham.sch.uk you will see what I mean. What i would like ot is put the logo in the header so it is always on show and not taking up space in the main site and course pages, etc, etc.
I had a go at this but the logo appeared below the picture of the logged in user - I think it would be best just to the right of this image or maybe in the menu bar with the date moved inward.
Can you advise?
Many thanks
Stephen
I haven't tested this but what you need to do is add a div container within the logo di. Something like this...
<div id="logo">
<div id="ceop">
profile block
profile options
</div>
</div>
Then put the following css at the end of into your theme's aardvark.css file...
#coep {
background: url("CeopButton.jpg") no-repeat scroll 50% 50% transparent;
height: 100px;
width: 100%;
}
Should be a starting point for you to finish it.
HTH
Mary
Will give it a go.
Thanks
Hi Mary,
I have added the Css section and edit the path to the image - I have placed it in images/header/.
I a little uncertain about the first bit - html/css novice - at the minute I have added <div id="ceop"> directly below <div id="logo"> like this....
Can you advise?
Thanks
Stephen
if ($heading) { // This is what gets printed on any other page with a heading
?>
<?php print_container_start(true, '', 'header'); ?>
<div id="logo">
<div id="ceop">
<div id="profileblock">
<?php
{
include('profileblock.php');
}
?>
</div>
</div>
<?php print_container_end(); ?>
<div id="aardvark_menu">
<?php
{
include('aardvark_menu.php');
}
?>
</div>
Hi Stephen,
You need another </div> here...
<div id="logo">
<div id="ceop">
<div id="profileblock">
<?php include('profileblock.php'); ?>
</div>
</div>
</div>
I have shortened the code of the profileblock php for neatness.
Hope this helps?
Mary
Thanks for that Richard - I'll pick apart the two themes.
Students will be able to use high contrast as a session theme. I'm sure that some courses will look wrong with high vis (ie. if they've forced a dark colour for text) so if it is an easy thing to switch on/off then the students will be able to use it whereever they want. To that end I'm planning to have a simple theme switch link in the header so that they can change between the two options (normal and high vis).
I think I'll leave the font size the same as this could cause further issues in courses, and students can simply zoom in or adjust the text size in their browser.
Cheers,
Lee
Hi all,
Thanks so much for the awesome theme, I really love it!
My only issue so far is on your demo site the menus look opaque and on mine they are transparent. I'm really new to any kind of scripting etc. and have tried to fix it myself but so far no good. Can you help? I attached a screenshot
Thanks a million
Dianne
You were absolutely right. For some reason I was missing the entire menu folder in my images directory. Yaay it looks great now. Thanks so much for your help Moodle Queen!
I have the same problem with this theme. It worked well fore 3 weeks after I installed it. Now some code appears on the right of the screen. I haven't mofified any files.
You can see it at www.teinet.cl
Thanks.
Regards from quaking Chile!
Hello everyone,
Great theme and great community support.
Since installing the theme, I had been missing the home icon from the menu and the moodle icon at the bottom. I checked the folders and all the icon files are where they are supposed to be and also referenced properly.
I was able to take out the sub-menus, to add my own logo in the header, but for the life of me I can't get those two things to show.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks!
Hi,
Does anyone have any idea why the "Home" button from the menu and the Moodle logo at the bottom of the page are missing? PLease see my original post on April 20th.
THank you.
Thank you Mary for your response.
The file is there, but when I use the IE browser to open the path, I get a 404 error and it doesn't matter which file I try to open either (another image from that folder).
Any other ideas? I simply copied the theme as-is from the download to my FTP and from the get go, those two icons were missing.
Thanks.
Hi Shaun
Thanks for the amazing theme. I've tried personalising it and it works in a course but on the front page I get links above the blocks saying skip "blockname" and the icons are all strange.
So I tried upload your file without any alterations and I get the same.
Any ideas?
Hello,
Thanks for providing such an excellent, robust theme for us to use. I'm having an issue when using https protocol on IE8 on the login page. I'm displayed a security warning which tells me some items may comprimise the security of the page I wish to view if I display them and asks if I would like to prevent these items from being displayed. Choosing No allows the site to display normally. Choosing Yes breaks the menuing system and scatters the menu options vertically down the page.
Any helpful ideas?
Hi all,
I've been editing the wonderful themes by Shaun and am having a bit of an issue.
I have trawled through the numerous posts but got a bit lost in the quantity!
I edited it all at home with my personalisations and got it just right (with the profile options displaying in the right hand part of the header). Now back at school in IE8 the theme is displaying wrong with the profile options in a second block just below the header.
Can someone point me in the right direction to fix this?
Many thanks in advance for any guidance!
Kathryn
I have uploaded using ftp... After selecting the theme I see only a white screen. why?
Hi
I'm trying Moodle 2.0 in my local computer, and put this Theme but it not shows in the Theme Selector list.
Also tryied erasing the files in the theme named "anomaly" and copying the files of Aardvark there, but now the "anomaly" theme doesn't show in the Theme Selector list.
Can anyone help or anyone who have installed in Moodle 2.0 ?
Erika,
The aadvark themes are for Moodle 1.9. The theming works differently in Moodle 2 and the themes cannot be directly exchanged from one to the other.
Richard
I'm not surprised it wouldn't show up in the Theme Selector, Aardvark Pro 1.2 is for Moodle 1.9.x.
Development:Themes 2.0 is a good starting point if you want to learn how to customise a theme for Moodle 2.0.
Mary
Hi there...EXCELLENT theme! Is there a way to change the names/titles of the delivered blocks? For example, I want to change the title of the "Course Categories" block to read "Modules." Thanks in advance.
Hi Mike,
If you go to the site admin block and the Language option, under Language Editing, you can choose to edit words and phrases.
If you have not done this previously it will set up a en_utf8_local folder with a copy of the en_utf8 language files (assuming you are using English as the language to edit). This should avoid your changes being overwritten in any upgrades (I think).
The 'Course Categories' phrase can be found in the moodle.php file, but through the list of files, you can change just about any of the language used in Moodle as you need for your site.
Richard
Greetings!
My cron job just quit working, and now my forum email isn't going out to my subscribers. What do I do?
Hi Ray,
Can you please start a new discussion wich this as it is nothing to do with this theme, even if you do use the theme.
Thank you
Mary
Sure... sorry....
This is a great theme. Thanks. I am using this theme basically as the front page of a regular site. Only two or three admistrators sometimes login to add information and no other people need to be in the site. How can I hide " You are not logged in - log in" button from viewers, however, when myself need to login I just need to type: site url/login/index.php?
You can do this using Notepad. Open up aardvark.css and add the following line of code, which acts to hide the logininfo in the header. Hope this is what you meant?
.headermenu .logininfo { display: none }
Hi,
It appears they have been taken down...or that they have been moved to a new location but forgot to change the information!
I'll email Shaun and find out.
Mary
... this theme? Aardvark Pro 1.2 -- Is it a stable version?
Is it the last versión?
I really like it!
Thank you so much!
P.d. I have Moodle 1. 9. 12+
I don't know where you can download this original Aardvark Pro, but you may want to try Aardvark Lite instead? It is built on Aardvark Pro and is for Moodle 1.9:
