.block { background: none;}
That should get rid of the colors in the corners. If the white color background in the rest of the block disappears at the same time you can bring it back with:
.block .content { background-color: #fff;}
You could also make the top of the .block have rounded corners to match the .block .header, but sometimes that can give weird results so it's probably easier to remove the background color entirely.
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I looked at the default user images before and filed a bug:
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=219019
https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-37418
I found you could actually reduce them by 70% if you used lossy, yet visually lossless techniques.
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=219019
https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-37418
I found you could actually reduce them by 70% if you used lossy, yet visually lossless techniques.
This all seems really excellent. How much of this can be done in a theme, without waiting on changes in core?
I agree totally and fully agree with every point, with the minor exception of number 3.
I've noticed that, at least in our setup, administrators of Moodle spend a lot more time navigating through the hierarchy of courses than staff or students. We automatically enroll students into all their courses and so they primarily want to jump between courses in that (relatively) short list, and shouldn't have to worry about whether another course is up two steps in the hierarchy and then down again two steps into a different category. This design is all about the admin users use case I think, I think it would look very different if designed from the point of view of many students or staff using Moodle.
Some other random comments:
For part 1, having the users icon here in place of the user icon (when available) is a really nice personal touch, which I think some themes already do (Aardvark I think). User preferences and
For part 6, having a two-column layout makes life very much easier if you want to use Moodle on phones and tablets. On small devices the block column can just slip below the main content, and since you've moved the important stuff to the top menus, that's not a problem. Currently a lot of time and effort is spent supporting the 3 column look and making it work with RTL, accessibility and responsiveness. Enforcing two-columns cuts through that Gordian knot. The only problem is that people are really used to the 3 column look.
Great work!
I agree totally and fully agree with every point, with the minor exception of number 3.
I've noticed that, at least in our setup, administrators of Moodle spend a lot more time navigating through the hierarchy of courses than staff or students. We automatically enroll students into all their courses and so they primarily want to jump between courses in that (relatively) short list, and shouldn't have to worry about whether another course is up two steps in the hierarchy and then down again two steps into a different category. This design is all about the admin users use case I think, I think it would look very different if designed from the point of view of many students or staff using Moodle.
Some other random comments:
For part 1, having the users icon here in place of the user icon (when available) is a really nice personal touch, which I think some themes already do (Aardvark I think). User preferences and
For part 6, having a two-column layout makes life very much easier if you want to use Moodle on phones and tablets. On small devices the block column can just slip below the main content, and since you've moved the important stuff to the top menus, that's not a problem. Currently a lot of time and effort is spent supporting the 3 column look and making it work with RTL, accessibility and responsiveness. Enforcing two-columns cuts through that Gordian knot. The only problem is that people are really used to the 3 column look.
Great work!
The Aardvark Bootstrap theme does this.
The icons are in the footer and you only get the color on hover (I wasn't sure if you meant them to be colourful all the time). Either way with icon fonts it's fairly easy to customise them as you want just by adding some custom CSS to your site.
The icons are in the footer and you only get the color on hover (I wasn't sure if you meant them to be colourful all the time). Either way with icon fonts it's fairly easy to customise them as you want just by adding some custom CSS to your site.
It might be a bit late for that since he's already using HTML5 section and article tags, which means the javascript HTML5 shiv is required.
It's always a trade-off, but I personally wouldn't worry about IE8 users with javascript turned off.
It's always a trade-off, but I personally wouldn't worry about IE8 users with javascript turned off.