Themes

Dear Julian,

One word! -> WOW

I was involved with the development of 'admin_setting_configstoredfile' so can help you with it.  What's the specific issue?

Also, I notice that you are using JQuery 1.7.2 directly and not included from core.  I was also involved with this development so can help migrate to using the method employed in the core 'MyMobile' theme.  If the slider will not work with jQuery 1.9.1 then there is a migrate package to use.  I can do a fork later today and see what I can do.

Cheers,

Gareth

Dear Julian,

I have been searching at themes for Moodle for a while now and the nicest looking theme I found was Rocket which I am currently using on 2 Sites.

I have to say that this theme is FANTASTIC!  -  I  L O V E   I T!    

I don't understand programming and the technical side of things, but I never understood why most Moodle Themes don't look modern (they are all also kind of similar too).  

Props to you for taking the lead man.  If you can manage to get it working properly, I think it will set the bar really high now for all the other themes...

I'm in line to be one of the first to jump on board when it's ready... well, in fact, I think I will also install it now on a test site to give it a closer look!

A big thank you for your awesome contribution!

Very nice! It all comes together really well to, as you say, look like it's not Moodle at all (or any CMS really) but a custom hand-crafted website, even though the look continues right into the Moodle courses. The Moodle Blocks in the footer is a particularly nice touch.

One totally unrelated question. I was looking at some of your bullet point lists to see how you were doing the icons and I saw this in the HTML:

<li id="yui_3_9_1_2_1369051526453_77"><strong>4 day</strong> long program</li>

I've seen those yui ids all over the place in Moodle before and never actually found out what they do. Does anyone happen to know? I'm a bit worried that Moodle's spending time adding ids to things via javascript for no obvious purpose.

Oh, and a quick bug report: the dropdown menus worked for me the very first time I clicked, but then didn't work after that and then didn't work at all when I tried another browser.

Fantastic theme! Do you have a login so that we can see what courses look like?

Hi,

Forum looks like this if you try to put a topic.

Hi Julian,

I've just cloned Essential from your github into my MOODLE_25_STABLE branch on my Localhost server and taking it for a spin.

It's looking good, but not sure if there is a problem when editing is on.

The whole layout changes, and all the blocks drop below the main content.

Also when editing a block in the hidden dock region I'm getting missing $string errors for the hidden dock region.

Just thought I would warn you.

Cheers

Mary

More problems I am afraid.

1. Can't drag'n'drop blocks into footer regions as these have not been defined correctly. The only way you can get a block into the footer is to configure it manually in the block settings to footer (left) (right) or (middle).
2. Once in the footer they seem to work OK until you decide to move them out or change their position in the footer, you get this error appearing:
    Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in C:\wamp\www\moodle25\lib\outputrenderers.php on line 1263
   Call Stack
   #    Time    Memory    Function    Location
   1    0.0029    837736    {main}    ..\index.php:0
   2    1.3758    49766912    core_renderer->header    ..\index.php:99
   3    1.4109    50869648    core_renderer->render_page_layout    ..\outputrenderers.php:777
   4    1.4120    51075448    include( 'C:\wamp\www\moodle25\theme\essential\layout\frontpage.php' )    ..\outputrenderers.php:847
   5    7.4032    96839768    require( 'C:\wamp\www\moodle25\theme\essential\layout\footer.php' )    ..\frontpage.php:438
   6    7.4056    96850568    core_renderer->blocks_for_region    ..\footer.php:40
   7    7.4057    96851192    core_renderer->block_move_target    ..\outputrenderers.php:124
Looking at lib/outputrenderer.php round about line 1263 we have this:

/**

     * Output a place where the block that is currently being moved can be dropped.

     *

     * @param block_move_target $target with the necessary details.

     * @param array $zones array of areas where the block can be moved to

     * @param string $previous the block located before the area currently being rendered.

     * @return string the HTML to be output.

     */

    public function block_move_target($target, $zones, $previous) {

        if ($previous == null) {

line 1263 ->$position = get_string('moveblockbefore', 'block', $zones[0]);

        } else {

            $position = get_string('moveblockafter', 'block', $previous);

        }

        return html_writer::tag('a', html_writer::tag('span', $position, array('class' => 'accesshide')), array('href' => $target->url, 'class' => 'blockmovetarget'));

    }

Mary

Hi Julian...

Sorry to report another problem...this time when changing to RTL Language. There is a problem with block regions.

נמצא טעות בקוד, נדרש לתקנה ע"י מתכנת: Trying to reference an unknown block region side-post

Felicitaciones Julian has hecho un excelente trabajo, estoy explorándolo y al mismo tiempo creando una versión en español, apenas tenga algo digno de mostrar se los estaré compartiendo a todos, gracias por mostrar el camino... Saludos.

Congratulations Julian has done an excellent job, I'm exploring it while creating a Spanish version, just have something to show you all I will be sharing with everyone, thanks for showing the way.

Greetings.

Great, I had some problems getting it to install into 2.6 Alpha, so will keep you posted if I figure out a work around. You may beat me though.

A M A Z I N G !

( I would really like to write some more adverbs but I am overwhelmed )

Thank you Julian!

hi Julian

Congratulations for this excellent theme. I have a concern where I can modify animated images that are on the frontpage? I have looked frontpage.php file but I can not appear on my site www.mediostic.com/moodle could you guide me? or give me a hand? maybe i make something wrong

Thank you very much

Hi Julian

How glad I am to discover your theme!

2 questions:

(1) How do I make the slide image appear larger? The image's actual size is larger than what appears on the rotating banner. Would like the image to appear larger or even as per actual size.

(2) I noticed that when the coursepage loads up, the rotating banner skips the first slide (blanks out) and then countsdown N seconds for the second slide to appear. I think even the http://2013.imoot.org/ 's rotating banner exhibits this behaviour. How can I make sure that upload loading, the first slide appears as what one would expect? 

Regards
Frankie Kam

This is a really nice looking theme but there's an issue with the menu not overlaying over the slider images correctly. 

Cheers,
Paul

Great news "Essential" fans. I have put in a whole bunch of updates (many committed by the community) and I think we can safely say we are ut of "Alpha" and into a very workable "Beta".

Included in this update are:

• All "imoot" related frontpage code is now gone (yay!)
• All settings now work. You can change colors and logo's to your hearts content
• Z-index of the menu is fixed. Now goes on top of slider
• now can take up to 5 different social network settings (Google+, Youtube, Flickr, LinkedIn and Twitter)
• Awesome Font now loads properly on mobiles
• Compatibility updates fo latest bootstrapbase version
• Can now drag into footer blocks
• numerous redundant divs removed
• New setting to toggle slideshow display on mobiles
• and a slew of other smaller bugs.

You can still grab the code from Github using the previous link at the top of this discussion thread and keep the feedback (and fixes) coming.

Regards

Julian

Hi, your theme is awesome. I have come across a problem not encountered with other themes: I am using a table with pictures on the front page which I use as icons with shortcuts to access other pages. In Firefox these display correctly, but in Internet explorer the pictures appear in their original size, independently of the pixel size inserted. This only seems to happen on the front page. Is this a bug of Essential?

Hi Julian - great theme! I really like it, especially with all the customisation options. Not sure why, but the theme looks different on the different browsers and their older versions. I viewed in on IE 10, IE 9, IE 8 Firefox (not sure which versions) and Chrome (not sure which versions).

Hi Julian,

Two quick questions:

First:  How can I make the Site news and Available courses on the frontpage to show across the whole page as in your screenshots (meaning in 1 column)?

At the moment, they are only showing on the main area excluding the space for the two columns on the right (which by the way in my install is empty to give space to the main 1st column).

Second one:  I know you answered this before, but I would like to ask if you could please consider making it possible to add a label between the slideshow and the marketing spots (as you had in your iMoot site)

The reason for this is that We have a main content we would like people to see, and then we'd like to market something else... not the other way around.

The only workaround I have so far is either not showing the marketing spots  or use the slideshow with only one element to showcase our main content.

Thanks for your help

Hi All,

First I would like to thanks for giving the best theme.  I am using the theme for my site. I have came across a problem. Actually, my requirement is the marketing row should only be visible before login, after login it should be disabled. Please anyone help me out. I need to accomplish as soon as possible.

Thanks in advance

We use the Main Menu block to add activities to our homepage and in my original testing everything seemed to work fine, but I just noticed that I can't add new activities. When I turn editing on the "Add an activity or resource" option appears, but it's not clickable.

If I change the theme to something else, the feature works fine, but if I switch back to Essential it breaks again. It is only on the Main Menu block that this doesn't work. It appears to work everywhere else just fine.

My installed version of Essentials is 2013090400 on Moodle 2.5.2+ (Build 20130913).

Has anyone else seen this behavior or have a solution?

Hello Julian,

Since I upgraded to the latest weekly release (Moodle 2.5.2+ (Build: 20131004)) I have a problem when theme is set to Essential: the tinyMCE editor is missing everywhere (well not really, it is still available in forumng but I guess this is because of the very special way forumng is displaying the editor).

Everything is OK in other themes including Clean.