Exactly ... my thinking with the "smudge" was to try and connect that image with the page better ...
Not sure the circle will help ... then it will just be floating too ...
Martin Dougiamas
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Moodle in English -> Moodle community sites -> New Moodle.org theme and menus -> Re: New Moodle.org theme - where is code?
by Martin Dougiamas -
Glad you like it Chris! Yes I liked the idea of the reaching hands the most too but it turned out to be just too hard to render them clearly in the same style as these other icons which people seemed to like. But the pyramid is good too. 
What do you think about using the icons in the background like http://moodle.org/support ? Or should it just be plain like http://moodle.org/community ?
What do you think about using the icons in the background like http://moodle.org/support ? Or should it just be plain like http://moodle.org/community ?
Moodle in English -> Moodle community sites -> New Moodle.org theme and menus -> Re: New Moodle.org theme and menus
by Martin Dougiamas -
Well, right now there is still heaps of work to do ... I estimate the new "look" is still only about 50% done. I'm working myself pretty much full time on tweaking things at the moment ... Something based on this might end up as a new theme in Moodle 2.0, but it won't look exactly like this theme. I think it's important that Moodle.org is a bit unique on the web.
Codewise for the menus and top level pages etc there is a lot of hardcoded PHP and a lot of magic going on, since the virtual "moodle.org" server is actually spread out across many physical machines and systems. All the strings are in language files. So this wouldn't be too useful for most Moodle sites.
What would be useful would be packaging all this up with a nice GUI into a proper CMS system for the front end (and there are a couple of modules/hacks out there already awaiting review).
Codewise for the menus and top level pages etc there is a lot of hardcoded PHP and a lot of magic going on, since the virtual "moodle.org" server is actually spread out across many physical machines and systems. All the strings are in language files. So this wouldn't be too useful for most Moodle sites.
What would be useful would be packaging all this up with a nice GUI into a proper CMS system for the front end (and there are a couple of modules/hacks out there already awaiting review).
Moodle in English -> Hardware and performance -> Serious Performance Issues -> Re: Serious Performance Issues
by Martin Dougiamas -
Try it without https ... under https you will find a lot of browser caching doesn't work and this will impact a lot as Moodle can have some big stylesheets etc. I could be wrong about this for your case but at least you can eliminate https as a cause this way.
Generally 1.9 should be quite a bit faster than 1.8 ... a lot of optimisation was done on roles etc.
You may need to do some database tuning if the database sizes have changed.
Generally 1.9 should be quite a bit faster than 1.8 ... a lot of optimisation was done on roles etc.
You may need to do some database tuning if the database sizes have changed.
Hi Simon,
It's unlikely this exact theme will be made available for download:
a) it has some specialised PHP for moodle.org
b) the menu Javascript is not GPL
c) I'd like moodle.org to look unique
However, I'd like to see something like it (perhaps with different colours) being released as part of Moodle 2.0.
Cheers
It's unlikely this exact theme will be made available for download:
a) it has some specialised PHP for moodle.org
b) the menu Javascript is not GPL
c) I'd like moodle.org to look unique
However, I'd like to see something like it (perhaps with different colours) being released as part of Moodle 2.0.
Cheers