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Thanks Derek

I'm not a huge fan of sliders either, but as you say they are the flavour of the month, so flexibase includes one - it has similar options to the marketing spots about when to show it, how many slides to show, etc. I would tend to use the slider OR the marketing spots rather than both, but some people do like having both so they are there as options

Selecting which course categories to show - I'll definitely add it as a development request for the next release. Its possibly another alternative use for the marketing spots though if someone only wanted to show a limited range of their categories. There have been a few comments in other themes about the size of category icons, so these are css controlled and can easily be changed ( .categoryicons .course_category_tree .fa {font-size: 140px;} ). That doesn't change the box size though, so the titles would still fit. As a development, I may also see if I can enable adding images as an alternative to the fontawesome icons currently used.

Course images - are added as Course Summary files in each course, but then a site-wide setting whether to use them as a banner or separate image. And if the Summary Files setting (main moodle admin one, not theme based) is set to allow more than one file and you add more than one image file, you can even have a different image as a banner to the one used for the front page course tiles. The course tile takes the first image, the banner takes the last.

Styling course format plugins - not done in the theme, but the availability of customLESS and customCSS tools should make this fairly straightforward I could probably look at some of the most widely used options and provide some styling for them, but at the moment I only looked at how the core formats would look.

'Resources' is a moodle core term - could be overridden in the language file, or language customisation if required.

Bugs - Derek has been in touch and identified a couple of minor bugs through his testing. Hope to have fixes in place by early in the week. If anyone else finds any, please report them and I will obviously fix any issues as quickly as possible!

Marketing spots position - because they are in the layout file as an 'include', this would be a matter of just moving a line of code in the frontpage.php layout. However, one caveat - it is not possible to move them in between the main frontpage content items (as selected by the site admin in the main front page settings options). They would either have to go above all those, or below them all.

Course tiles - I normally just have the 'My Courses' rather than 'All Courses' displayed, but like the categories I will see if its possible to choose a few to highlight, although this would be separate from the core 'My/All courses' options

AwesomeBar - Hiding the Admin and Navigation menus would be a theme setting and part of the theme renderer overrides, so if a course opted to use a different theme (eg Clean) then the navigation and admin blocks should be available to them.

Thanks again for the REALLY useful feedback and testing Derek. I hope I am able to use it to make flexibase even better and more user friendly to fit in with needs and wants for as many people as possible.

Note to other readers, that I have already mentioned to Derek. While bug fixes will obviously be dealt with as soon as possible, future developments may take longer due to personal commitments (writing a Masters dissertation now the taught elements of my masters are complete - already doing this part time alongside my main full time job). They will be going on a development list and at some point will get prioritised for next release or longer term, but all constructive suggestions, like Derek's, will be considered.

Richard

It might be a Moodle styling bug rather than Flexibase, but I just tried purging all caches, and that didn't seem to help. I have narrowed down the problem, though. The mod-indent div isn't showing at all for labels, though other kinds of course activities/resources are indented correctly. The label is indented correctly if I switch to the More theme. So I think it's a conflict either in Flexibase or in Bootstrap3....

Thanks,

Elizabeth

Hi Derek,

As you've guessed, I'm on holiday right now, but I'll be back in the office Monday. I can't give you access to our production site, but I may be able to give you limited access to our development site.

We did not enable the AwesomeBar. We felt it added clutter without much additional functionality.

Thanks, Richard, for the css fix for indent. Any thoughts about the favicon issue?

Best regards,

Elizabeth Dalton

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The default, example code is taken direct from bootstrap.com and there appears to be an issue with the row class inside the tab-content. If you notice on my page it doesn't happen on the tab that gives the example code - that has no grid/row structure added within the tab content.

Try adding

.tab-content .row {margin-right:0;margin-left:0;}

to customcss. I will investigate further and make the change permanently in the theme once I know that it doesn't affect anything else - or if the change to row margins needs to be extended beyond just the tab-content. OR if I need to simplify the code extract from bootstrap.com in my example so that people are not adding those additional classes by default.

Alternatively, all you actually need for the tab content area is

    <div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="yourtabid">
        <p>Your content</p>
        <p>The rest comes from the bootstrap.com code and isn't actually needed for the tab to work, just for styling what's in the tab.</p>
    </div>

Thanks for the continued feedback, it is always useful to get someone else's eyes on work I've done!

As for tutors using it, bear in mind you could set up a content area with the required tabs and dummy content for them to edit just the content of each tab as normal in the editor - although I agree, you probably wouldn't even do that for most tutors as the chances of them deleting something important are quite high but the facility is there if you do have teachers who are confident looking at the html.

It's not really an extra feature of the theme other than raising awareness that when a theme is built on bootstrap, that is available in the content as well - and should be true of any of the bs themes (although code may vary between themes using different bs versions). In this instance its simply I have added it to the theme documentation to demonstrate what can be done.