Themes

Awesome, thank you!

Hi there,

I haven't downloaded your theme to look at in detail but the initial look seems fantastic and the rest of this discussion thread certainly gives them great acolade

just a thought - where you hard code the wwwroot into the theme vle.newbury-college.ac.uk you could replace with $CFG->httpthemewww or $CFG->httpsthemewww (if pages are needed over a secure connection) this way the theme would be easier to use by others without having to edit any of the code

just a thought - brilliant designs

Jason

@Shaun: awesome work, thanks for sharing!

Hello Shaun, 

Your themes are wonderful. You rock!

Can your menubar.php be edited to insert a completely different horizontal menu bar? I have attempted to modify it by inserting a different menu bar that I have, but when incorporated into the code it doesn't work.

I've used 2 different types of menubars, both implemented with javascript, but the javascript does not work for for either of them. One is actually an embedded .swf file that is called with a javascript function call, the other is image based. 

I tried modifying ../lib/javascript.php so that the .js file is included, but it still does not work.  I noticed that the javascript used for your menubar works great.  Do you know of anything that could be preventing the javascript for my customized menu bar from working?  

Your help is so much appreciated.  Thank you!

I have updated the package now to include these. As we're only on 1.8 i didn't have these icons in situe.

Hi Shaun

The themes are excellent! I think what you've done is strengthens Moodle further as themes and templates are not everyone's cuppa!

Couple of Questions:

1) On http://vle.newbury-college.ac.uk you've got for the Password/Login block and Weather block a title in Blue and a grey line at the bottom of the block. How do you achieve this?

2) How do you get rid of the box around HTML blocks - have a look at http://vle.ashs.org.uk and then the same Weather block on your site. The grey box around it looks awful in comparison!

I am using Moodle 1.9 (Latest download).

Thanks

J.

Must be a misunderstanding, Eddie.
I want to drop the menu and keep the college blue theme as default.

Changing "auto" to "960px" in college_blue.css solved it.

body#files-index {
width: 960px;
}

Tried this on IE6: no errors.
(I'm using a version without the menu bar.)

After doing some research I found that it may be google api setting for the online users map or the google api for location of users by ip. What ever the case the site will not display on any ie browser. ie6 or ie7. I checked and your theme is working in ie so I apologize it must be either google api or another block.

I know the feeling! It's only in the last year or so that I have started to get the standards bug... After seeing another school's website that looked beutiful but crawled along and looked different in different browsers I started teaching myself how to write xhtml strict valid code... What I have produced is far from perfect but it should speed the site up a little and reduce the load on the server...

Shaun,

First, let me add my compliments and thanks for this wonderful theme collection. I am one, of many I'm sure, that would be lost if we had to create our own theme from scratch.

I've installed your themes on my development server and been working on customizing it to our institution and have a couple of simple, I hope, questions.

1. I decided to use just one of the themes (college_blue) and removed the theme select option from the menu bar. I don't know if that is the cause or not but the very thin black line that appears at the bottom of the menu bar has disappeared and I can't figure out why....? It's such a little thing but really polishes the look and without it the menu bar looks kind of unfinished. The gray of my menu bar looks dull.....I think for this reason.

2. I like the look of the front page block without borders but am so used to having borders that I put them back in. I'd like to have the same border around the 'topic section' that appears in the top center of the front page. I've tweaked several of the css files with no success. I'm a novice at all of this and learn through experimentation but haven't had any success at getting the border to appear.... please help

3. What controls the height of the dark gray footer section? I removed the Newbury College logo and inserted our logo (Nihon University). The height of the footer increased quite a bit and it looks a little bulky now. I thought adjusting it would be fairly easy but haven't been able to figure it out.

(Edit) - I was able to fix this, a little, by changing the cellpadding setting in footer.html from 15 to 5. It looks like the logo, on the left, and the links, on the right, are all controlled by this cellpadding setting so the footer height is reduced when I change from 15 to 5 but it also then puts the links, on the left, very close to the edge of the page. Is there another way to manipulate the footer height?


If you get any time in your day (I'm sure you are busy) any pointers will be appreciated.

Once again, thanks for contributing these great themes to the Moodle community!

Jason

Thinking about this a bit more... I don't think this warrants you having to expend too much energy for a fix. I would wager that just about all of my users don't even know that the emoticon code gets converted by the editor at all. I am willing to live with this and stick to the insert smiley button so that we can use the smilies you provided.

thanks - will try

OK! I'll try it with alternate langages! thanks Shaun!

Try this link:

http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=26&perpage=10&search=newburry&sort=121&order=ASC&advanced=0&filter=1&advanced=1&f_121=&f_122=&f_123=&f_124=0&f_125=&f_126=&f_127=&f_128=0&u_fn=shaun&u_ln=

Frank, thanks for your suggestions but there was no such line in the styles.php file. I found it in styles_variable. It worked then as you said.

Thanks a lot!