David Scotson

Ah, interesting stuff. If no-one else beats me to it, I'll look into implementing Darren's text idea. I think it's clearly the best solution.

My general approach to icons is to eliminate as many as possible for the reasons outlined in the third numbered point of this usability assesment.

The icons that I've left generally convey some information over and above the text they are next to, e.g. the filetype (powepoint, pdf) of a resource file.

For some of the more decorative uses, such as the calendar icon that appears on the main calendar page, larger icons might be more appropriate such as the one I've attached below.

I really like the co-ordinated color scheme of these icons, it goes well with blue themes. Maybe a color shifted set could be created in Photoshop for those with red, green etc. themes?

However, I have a few suggestions about the icons.

• The calendar icon has the number 3 on it. This is somewhat confusing when the icon is used to highlight events happening on other days of the month. No number, or an unreadable blur would probably be better.

• The course block hide show icons have + and - on them, yet the one with the + actually 'adds' other sections, not the one that has the + in it. Similarly, the icon with the - actually removes all the other sections. So there's a bit of a disconnect there.

Other than that I highly commend the repurposing of prexisting open source resources such as these icons to make Moodle better. Great stuff!

I also had trouble with my password in the bug tracker. What confused me was that it was asking for my email and password, but what it really wanted was my username and password.

And similarly to you, when I entered my email address it wouldn't send out my password, it simply said 'invalid login' (or something similar) in red.

swapping

#header

for

.navbar

or

.breadcrumb

should reduce the area that is targetted. Navbar includes the button on the right hand side as well as the link bar (breadcrumb trail) on the left.

If that is the exact CSS that you used then the problem seem to be that the #header is far bigger than it should be. Perhaps you are missing a closing div tag for the div id="header".

The other possibility is that there is an extra comma in your CSS:

#header, a:link {

which would mean that all a tags will be affected.