Hi Jonathan,
Welcome to Moodle. Nothing can be really off topic in this forum but maybe you would get more answers in Moodle Jobs.
Cheers,
Glenys
Thanks G !!!!
I'm not a develper and I'm also relatively new, however, let me say this. If you're going to be doing Moodling-- you might as well use the Moodle classroom and people like us to get up to speed on everthing from course design to East PHP 5.3.3. You can get info on theme design on Moodle if you have the time. I think it would help to know your timeline and whether you actually have Moodle up and running and any support at all from an ICT administrator so people can give you good advise. For example, If no ICT support/ little-- maybe an Intranet is better than putting your stuff out on the Internet; There are server issues, e.g., IIS versus Apache (they compete for port 80) so if you want to use Easy PHP 5.3.3 to modify PHP file (and you will, e.g., to modify upload sizes) you must stop IIS (if installed) so Apache will work, etc.. Many things to know but you can get all you need for free/ openware (except Adobe Presenter or Captivate) and information from reading and talking on the forums. You'll need jedit (free PHP, SQL, XML, HTML editor)... I'm a lecturer and course designer at a Maritime Institution and find even ICT personnel/ developers don't really understand entirely what we teachers want when it comes to development-- they speak mostly code and hardware. Iman