2-Column Startpage and an Elastic Wiki

2-Column Startpage and an Elastic Wiki

by Urs Hunkler -
Number of replies: 3
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Hi everybody,

_ 2-Column Page
in this 2-column startpage the underlying 3-column layouttable simply "looses" it's right column by hiding it with CSS.

_ Reading on Screen
65 characters per line are much better readable on screen than the about 120 chars/line and more you get in a standard wiki page.
Proposal - You can make the column smaler.
Objection - In a smaller column the amount of char/line decreases rapidly when you enlarge the font size.
Solution - What about letting the width of the column grow corresponding to the growth of font size? The length of the line will stay about the same.
Can i try it? - Please have a look here.

_ Change of the Block Switch
The first approach of the block switch disabled the icons within editing mode sad. Now you switch only via the cross-icon. I think this solution is not too bad.

I'm very interested in your opinions.
Urs

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Re: 2-Column Startpage and an Elastic Wiki

by Paul Evans -
Hi Urs,

I did try scrolling my mouse wheel in both konqi and firefox -- very nice!! I was suprised by the power the effect had on me.

Any more writings on this by you or others?

I have stuffed mambo/bb/moodle/phpshop together and am working on making them all look nice with one another. Graphic arts are not my forte. at all. sad

I would like to end up with a 2 col moodle to show in mambo. I will just brute strength it, but I'd like to know about your css approach ,so that the moodle site could remain the same at 3 cols.

Please enlighten me when/if you have the time.

Regards, Paul Evans
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Re: 2-Column Startpage and an Elastic Wiki

by Mark Little -
Nice design..

We also want to turn off the three colums and only have two.

What files did you change to do this?
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Re: 2-Column Startpage and an Elastic Wiki

by Ger Tielemans -

You can do this in the config.php, so everey new course get these as default settings for example:

$CFG->defaultblocks = "participants, admin, news_items, calendar_upcoming, recent_activity";

(after the ; you normally place the blocks for the right column. A teacher can add the right column again if he likes that)

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