David Scotson

Very nice, I like the colour-scheme.

You might want to change the following line:

.sideblocklinks {
    background-image: url();
}

to

.sideblocklinks {
    background-color: transparent;
)

to prevent the odd-looking repetition of the background image within the Main Menu, Courses and Activities blocks.

Assuming that you only want the embellishments along the sides of the boxes, the images texture2.jpg and texture3.jpg should probably be extended or else you get unwelcome repeats of the pattern in larger blocks. For texture3.jpg (the heading) I think extending it downwards another 50 pixels should be fine for headlines that wrap onto a second line. The lighter background (texture2.jpg) you probably need to extend it out to 600 or so pixels, maybe 800 to be safe to prevent repitition in places like the login screen.

hope that helps, and congrats on the nice theme.

If someone is going to go through and standardise these/check they are used appropriately can I express a preference for moving the ellipsis into the anchor tag so that styles applied to the tag also affect the ellipsis.

I've noticed that 'action' links (i.e. hyperlinks that allow you to do something, rather that go somewhere e.g. I just clicked on "Add a new discussion topic...") are sometimes followed by three dots, or ellipsis, in Moodle.

I have a few questions about these:

• are they used consistently throughout Moodle? And if they are, what is the rule for when to use them and when to not use them?

• Why are the ellipsis sometimes hyperlinked, and sometimes unclickable text that follows the link?

• would anyone mind if they were removed completely? They strike me as more a desktop user interface metaphor, and I can't recall seeing them used in any web applications.

If they are removed it might be worth revisiting the wording of the links to make their action nature more obvious e.g.

"All courses" -> "Show all courses" "New event" -> "Create new event" or just "Add event"

Yes I did, apologies for the delay in responding. I'm still catching up on a backlog of mail from the holiday period.

I'm a bit skeptical of Textpattern's CSS editor. For anyone who actually understands CSS I can't see it being an improvement over their desktop tools (whether that means vi or CSSEdit or Dreamweaver) followed by a file upload.

On the other hand, for absolute beginners, who just want the basic theme in their 'corporate' colour-scheme plus a customised logo this is way overkill. The current ability to upload logo.jpg and have it appear automatically combined with the previously discussed 'colour sets' (where a small number, say between 1 and 4, colours can be specified via a web interface and inserted--or 'cascaded'-- into the CSS).

There is also the possibility of leaving these choices to user preference, to aid those with impaired vision (amongst others), but, without wanting to sound like a broken record, this will be all be impossible if the styles continue to be defined anywhere else but in CSS.