Posts made by Martin Dougiamas

Moodle in English -> Lounge -> Graphic Design -> moodle.org front page

by Martin Dougiamas -
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Let me try a different tack by being specific, because I'd like to get this done soon. Perhaps you can help me find graphics.

I'm rewriting the front page there to have four short distinct paragraphs flowing down the page, and I want a nice shiny graphic for each to flow around. The idea is to make things really accessible for new people while still providing easy links for regulars.

The graphics should be styled and clean with a light shadow, something slick like this sort of thing or a bit friendlier.

  1. The first paragraph will be for newbies, with a very brief explanation of what Moodle is and a link to an online 5-minute presentation. So we need a good icon that represents that, like a question mark with a Moodle hat on.
  2. The second paragraph is about the community, and will link to various important areas (especially this course). The icon needs to be a group of several people (with Moodle T-shirts on!). Clicking on that icon will bring you here too (shortcut for regulars).
  3. The third section is about documentation, and will point out all the major sources of information about Moodle in more depth, including developer-level information and other reference stuff.  Perhaps a big reference book?
  4. The fourth section is about downloading stuff.  Where to find the main distribution, mention CVS, blocks repository, themes repository etc.  So a packing case, or perhaps one of those fake retail boxes with Moodle on the cover.

Even some temporary graphics I can put in there would be welcome. I'll be working on the text tonight.
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Most of my tracking of Moodle forum posts has always been done in mail (I use Mozilla, now Thunderbird). You can show in threaded view and it works. You can flag messages, junk them, sort them, search them etc.

For this reason I would want to keep an email copy of all messages even if I read them online.  It makes sense to have them this way as a reference.

But I can also see a case for not emailing messages that were read online (which is actually how Messaging works now). Needs some thinking (for Moodle 1.6).