Martin Dougiamas

The world is largely not even observant of Christmas

However, I put a red hat on the logo today ... not sure if we'll be able to keep up with every major holiday like Google though.

It's been some years since Moodle.org had a facelift but yesterday I finally switched over to our new "Moodle2" theme.

It's far from perfect yet, but it's usable and we hope you like it better than the old theme.

Some of the things still being worked on over the next couple of weeks are:

* better artwork for the front page and the other top-level content
* translating all the top level pages and menus into every language we support (the texts will be included in all standard language packs)
* creating versions of the same theme and menus on Moodle Docs and Moodle Tracker
* adding a few more things to the menus
* fixing a few small accessibility issues
* any other suggestions you come up with (MDLSITE-132)

Thanks to Helen and Julian and many others for their help and suggestions with the theme and menus, and especially Urs who came up with most of the new "look" and code. Cheers guys.

I took a look at the site.

First thing was that you are trying to embed object tags in a label ... this won't work by default for security works. I enabled trusted text on your site which will let this work now.

Second thing was that the object code you had pasted in the label had errors (some missing tags and some bad characters from pasting). This wuold have prevented it from working anyway.

Third thing is that it's usually just better to use the multimedia filters for this sort of thing. All you need to do is to make a link to the SWF file and the mediaplugins filter will make the code for you.

I did this for you in the topic summary using an SWF I found on the net (timeline.swf) because your original one was deleted. Edit to point to any other file you wish.

Merry Christmas!

Jeff you don't need to do anything beyond including the config.php file then ... by default all code runs with full privileges (ie like an "admin") ... most of our scripts use functions like require_login and require_capability to *restrict* access only.

Lots of stuff is half done in Moodle 2.0 and some of it is still subject to change. If you use it in production your users will have a poor experience. Stuff may break. Data could be lost. Interfaces will evolve.

For developers though it runs fine enough and for people planning largish new developments it might be a good idea to do it with 2.0. If you describe your project I can probably give more specific advice.

I'll be publishing a detailed graphical status report of all new features in the new year so everyone can see where we are.