David Scotson

The developers of the 'instiki' wiki have a nice solution for this (perhaps similar to the eWiki stuff, I'm not familiar with it).

http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000231.html

Maybe you need to be more specific in what you want to do:

For example, you want to change the Moodle logo in some way rather than just delete/replace it with something else?

The login link is specified as a font size larger than logout in the PHP with a font tag. I'm guessing that size difference might be intentional but if you really want to change it I think you might be able to overrule font tags by wrap it in a span or div with a class rule and doing something like:

.kludge font { styles go here}

where the styles will apply to any font tag within an element called kludge.

But if you really want to modify Moodle itself and move away from the mainstream of development (which I wouldn't recommend in any but the most pressing of situations) then I think you'll find the login text, including the font tags, in "index.php".

Have you looked at header.html and footer.html within the relevant theme directory? I think that's what you are looking for.

And note that these aren't simple HTML files, they have PHP in them which decides what gets displayed in which situations, e.g. the front page of some themes has a larger logo than 'inside' the courses.

Do people actually use the wingdings font?

I ask mainly because of a humerous misunderstanding I recently encountered that was a result of using this font.

The head of the newly reconstructed Internet Explorer team at Microsoft was blogging about the new features of Internet Explorer included in the XP service pack #2, one of which was introduced thus:

"We also came up with a very original idea popup blocking. J"

blogged here

Since pop-up blocking is certainly not a very original idea, the poster was subjected to a torrent of abuse and called a smug, lying idiot (amongst other things).

It was only much later that a commenter realised that the spurious J that many people were seeing at the end of the comment was actually in the Wingdings font and therefore supposed to be a smiley face: ☺

It changes the tone of the sentence, just a little.

I've got a Google Search block (attached) that I've been tinkering around with.

It's not much use to us, as all our courses prevent guest and Googlebot access, but it might be helpful for moodle.org and similar open sites.

It's simply the code that Google provides to webmasters for site search stuck into a block. It leverages the full power of Google search but has some limitations for this application:

• the site needs its own domain, moodle.org should be fine, or moodle.yourdomain.edu, but restricting searches to yourdomain.edu/moodle/science isn't possible with Google.
• it searches all public Moodle courses (and other webpages) in your domain, you can't restrict searches to a single course e.g. Using Moodle, unless you put the course title into the seach

but it does have some nice features too:

• It searches anything it finds including static documents (HTML and PDF etc. included), forums, glossaries, profiles etc.
• You get some benifit from Google's relevance ranking
• You can sign up and customise your search results page to match your site and remove the Google ads as a public service if you are non-profit or educational

I've got some future plans:

• safe-search option
• automatically reverting to standard web only search if the site is private
• localized and language specific search

but I think this might be useful on moodle.org even as it is. You can play around with it on our development site (I've hard coded it to search moodle.org). Searching for common Moodle error messages like "memory exhausted" gives good results but more general terms like "search" are less useful as it doesn't only search content (though I suppose that is a double edged sword).