New Theme - Simplicity

New Theme - Simplicity

by Patrick Malley -
Number of replies: 8
I've finally gotten around to uploading another free theme to the database. It's called "Simplicity" and is available here.

A few of its features:
  • A front-page PHP image swapper that loads a new image whenever the page is loaded.
  • Built on top of the Standard theme.
  • Use of the site description as tagline on the front page header.
  • Separate stylesheet for colors, with instructions on editing, for easy customization.
  • Lightweight.

Once it gets approved in the Themes database, I will add a link to it here.

Please post any issues or requests you have here where I can find it.

Enjoy.

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Re: New Theme - Simplicity

by Patrick Malley -
Just for the record, this theme has been approved in the theme database and can be found here:

http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=26&rid=1859
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Re: New Theme - Simplicity

by Julie Carothers -

Patrick-

I am attempting to customize Simplicity. I added a background image. I want to add a white border around the all the way around the sideblocks and content but cant figure out where that code it.

Thanks, Julie

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Re: New Theme - Simplicity

by Patrick Malley -
I would recommend searching styles.css for the following:

#page {
  margin:0 5%;
}

And adding the following line:

#page {
  margin:0 5%;
  padding:0 12px;
}

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Re: New Theme - Simplicity

by Patrick Schreck -
This is a very clean and elegant theme. Thank you for making it available. I have adopted it for my site.

My favorite feature is the randomly displaying images. I have invited my digital media students to create images that follow the same size and colour palette and I said I would add them to the roster of images.

My problem is that I cannot increase the number of images. I have added additional images to the 'images' folder using the numbering sequence, and I edited the header.html file and changed the value in the $PIC_TOTAL = 3; statement trying different values other than 3. But no matter what I change the value to it only displays one of the first three images.

I have changed the first three images, and the new images display. But only the first 3.

Am I missing a step along the way? I would like to have the theme randomly select from more that just 3 images.


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Re: New Theme - Simplicity

by Bryan Alwright -
I've looked at several free theme in this forum. And this one I like most. With slight modification will be prefect.
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Re: New Theme - Simplicity

by Patrick Malley -
Thank you. Let me know if there are any modifications you need help with.
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Re: New Theme - Simplicity

by Vasken Hauri -
Hi there!

We're currently using the simplicity theme at the university where I work and I have a question about the body.png image referenced in the styles.css file. It doesn't seem to exist, and as such we're seeing a lot of errors in our Apache logs. I'm wondering if there is an image that is intended to go there, or if it's a placeholder for one that we are expected to create. If it's the latter, it might be better to leave that section commented in the packaged version in order to prevent 404s.

Thanks very much for your work on the theme. It's working quite well otherwise and is very popular with our faculty.
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Re: New Theme - Simplicity

by Mary Evans -
I created my own...it is only a gradient image, very simple...I've uploaded it for you.

I suspect it was an oversight, but if you look at the screenshot in the theme's folder you will see it has a grey gradient running along the top edge of the background to the site. You are the first to report this missing image, I never noticed it to tell the truth...but I hope you find the image I just made for you useful! Mamatheka


Cheers

Mary
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