Hi, Tom!
You are now in the right place! I am sure Mary will get right on this for you?
Is this theme here, the one at moodle.org, what you are after?
You can always learn to design your own themes if you are not liking what you see here! I think that is what has happened to others here as well. It's worth checking out any way!
Judi
Hi Judi,
I've decided to go with the Post-it theme and learn to customise it. I've started on that path with inserting my own logo. I'd be interested in learning to design my own theme, but I think at the moment I've got too much to do already so that will be for later.
Thanks for the helpful suggestion,
Tom
Tom,
I am surprised that you say the choice is limited - Have you checked in the themes database? There are over 20 Mdl2 themes in there not counting the ones that are shipped as part of the moodle core package anyway. And that's without doing a general internet search to find any others that I know are out there from various sources, but which are on different licences so are not released into the community database.
This particular theme is not available in the community, as has been discussed on occasion before. I believe the idea was not to release this particular theme in order to maintain some kind of individuality for the moodle.org site itself, rather than having an array of other sites using exactly the same theme.
There are many themes around with full width rather than fixed width pages, and the majority of them use a standard font size, which on all my PCs/laptops at least shows up exactly the same size as this one. I know that just about every theme I have put in the community is full width and that one of the most popular recent themes - Mary's Aardvark-Postit theme is a full width variation of Shaun's original Aardvark. And many of the themes are highly customisable in themselves with a settings page that can range from changing the logo, through to my own flexi_ii which has (too) many options for customising, or the many themes which have a custom css tool on their settings page which basically allows you to add/alter any css you want to.
The best option if you can't find a theme to completely suit your needs is to choose one closest to the general look you want and then start to customise it yourself - there are plenty of people on the forum who are only to willing to help with support and advice.
Richard
Hi Richard,
Thanks for that. For the moment I decided to go for the Post-it theme. I had some trouble inserting my own logo but figuring this out. I guess I'm going to have to invest time into learning how to customise the theme. I guess it all takes time.
Thanks again,
Tom
Hi Tom,
It all depends how much customising you want to do. There are some simple tips for relatively small scale customisation:
And a final hint - if you get stuck, do a search to see if anyone else has already faced similar problems and an answer already exists, but then ask on the forums - we're a helpful, friendly bunch as a rule :D
Richard
Hi,
Have you tried Formal White in Moodle 2.2.1? This has more functionality built into it, and a theme which looks nice as well as works nicely too? There is a Font setting too so you can adjust the font size should you want to.
Cheers,
Mary
I would think that "All Content" would meed this need.
As far as a large font size- that can be set for any theme using the "extra HTML" field in the admin settings and just specify a large font. Then the theme doesn't matter.
