I've been playing around a bit with the core files to see if I can have the course descriptions (the buttons) cascade into a grid rather than just be a vertical row, and I think I've done it.
In
course/lib.php around line 2043:
echo '<div class="coursebox
clearfix">';
echo '<div class="info">';
echo '<div class="name"><a title="'.get_string('entercourse').'"'.
$linkcss.' href="'.$CFG->
wwwroot.'/course/view.php?id='.$course->id.'">'.
highlight($highlightterms, format_string($course->fullname)).'</a></div>';
Delete clearfix.CSS in the standard theme has
.clearfix{display:block;}, which is nice for pushing things down the page, but we don't want to vertically "stack" things in this manner anymore.
After that one, small change, now everything looks okay on the frontpage provided your exisiting CSS doesn't get in the way (and it probably will - you'll have to play around with it). However, clicking the "All courses" button sends us to
course/index.php. And in this file, there is no clearfix, so there's nothing there to push the footer down the page. Adding the clearfix back in solves this. I suppose it can be added back in any number of places, but I've added it back in here:
course/index.php, around line 85, just before print_footer();
print_course_request_buttons($systemcontext);
echo '</div>';
echo '<div class="clearfix"></div>'; print_footer();
exit;
You'll have to play around with the CSS removing borders, setting widths, setting padding, and so on depending on your theme to make it look right. I should also mention that I have not poked around to see if these small changes mess up anything else around the site, but I don't *think* that will happen.
