Alternatives (Newbury College Theme Set) v3.0 - Launched

Alternatives (Newbury College Theme Set) v3.0 - Launched

by Shaun Daubney -
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I have officially launched a new version of my 'Alternatives' theme set. They can be found in the Moodle Themes repository and contain a number of fixes and a total rework of the css code. They no longer require 'standard' to be used which reduces the IE6/7 CSS errors we were having but will add an extra couple of KB to the package size (like ****ing in the sea in the grand sceme of things).

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Camo Theme

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Emo Pink Theme




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Re: Alternatives (Newbury College Theme Set) v3.0 - Launched

by Shaun Daubney -
If anyone gets the chance to download/test any of these, I'm having a little trouble with the layout in certain areas. Most notably...

  • Admin / Notifications page
  • File Upload (non-pop-up)
  • some others i can't remember off the top of my head.
Any suggestions/fixes would be greatly appreciated before the long summer vacation. Thanks. Shaun
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Re: Alternatives (Newbury College Theme Set) v3.0 - Launched

by Patrick Malley -
Hello Shaun,

I thought I'd do some testing for you this morning, and I am getting the "Skip links" showing up on the page.

Here's your styles_layout.css reference to these links:

/*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;
}

And, here's what I found referencing them in Standard:

/*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;
}
Any reason for the difference?

Oh, testing on college_red


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Re: Alternatives (Newbury College Theme Set) v3.0 - Launched

by Patrick Malley -
Also, your second row tab links aren't grabbing your anchor font color (they never do) and need to be styled separately using:

.tabtree ul li ul li a span
I typically take care of this by adding the above to my anchor color:

a:link,
a:hover,
.tabtree ul li ul li a span {
 color: #example;
}

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Re: Alternatives (Newbury College Theme Set) v3.0 - Launched

by Patrick Malley -
Can you be a little more specific about the problems you're having. For example, I agree that the files pages are a little messed up, but it might help to know what you're trying to do before I offer suggestions on fixing it.

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Re: Alternatives (Newbury College Theme Set) v3.0 - Launched

by Shaun Daubney -
Thanks, I'll get some screen shots when I'm back at work on a PC tomorrow. It's just that certain pages do not follow the fixed, centralised width of the main pages.

We were having trouble referencing the standard theme set, it was causing some kind of weird timeout with IE6/7 which doesn't appear to occur when I took out the referencing to Standard and placed all the code into the one place.

It makes the theme a little more bloated and may cause problems with upgrades but fingers crossed it's better than the problems we were facing before where the CSS didn't load correctly.

Thanks for the tips too, I'll try and implement them in the morning.
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Re: Alternatives (Newbury College Theme Set) v3.0 - Launched

by Clare Smith -
Hi

This is a great theme, just having a look at it!

One basic problem I'm having is that it's not loading on other machines - I'm using it on my test machine but when I ask other people to take a look, it's just loading a text based screen, not even standard theme layout.

Is there something obvious I've missed?

Many thanks,
Clare

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