Elegance theme - slideshow, search courses block, marketing spots?

Elegance theme - slideshow, search courses block, marketing spots?

by Haakon Meland Eriksen -
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My Moodle 3 test site frontpage at https://moodle3-mor.rhcloud.com/  uses the responsive Elegance theme's slideshow to tell user stories about courses with a link to the relevant course, marketing spots with screencasts to explain the essentials for new users, course creators and management,  and finally a Search courses block below to make it easy for users to find what they want. (Note: the test site does not contain the final content).

The current responsive layout:

[Navigation bar]
[Slideshow]
[Marketing spots]
[Search courses] - too low and requires scrolling

A nice touch would be to have the search courses box inbetween the slideshow and the marketing spots so users can start their search immediately. Is there a setting for this I have missed, or do we need to change the Elegance theme to allow it?

The wanted responsive layout:

[Navbar]
[Slideshow]
[Search courses] - scrolling not necessary on smartphones
[Marketing spots]

If I turn off the marketing spots, the search courses box comes up just below the slideshow, which works well on smartphones, tablets and PCs, giving a familiar "Google like" search feel to the site, but then we cannot promote our screencasts below the search box, causing more support requests for our support team. mixed

Mary Evans had a great comment somewhere about preventing tiling of the slideshow images, but I seem to have misplaced my bookmark. Anyway, another interesting thing for the Elegance theme slideshow settings would be to include the option to either tile or not tile each image. smile

Am I correct in thinking the correct image size for the slideshow is 1100 width x 250 height? smile
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In reply to Haakon Meland Eriksen

Re: Elegance theme - slideshow, search courses block, marketing spots?

by Richard Oelmann -
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The way to position the items as you want them would be to alter the layout file (frontpage.php from memory, but I'm not at a PC with elegance installed, or server access to my moodle sites).

You would need to reposition the marketing spots code below the region holding the main content. That would put it below the course lists, news items and everything else that can be set from dront page settings too, but it seems you are not using those anyway, so that shouldn't matter.

There is no way to add the marketing spots in the middle of the main content

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