Thomas Hanley

Hi Dan,

+1, and voted in tracker.

~thomas

Hi Chris,

Many thanks for your work on this. Recently I have been working on including static HTML pages within the Moodle interface, which is something that doesn't appear to be well-documented.

Your post about reorganising and improving Moodle documentation started me thinking (yes that is dangerous I know ; ).

You make the point that the Themes forum is very active and supportive and I completely agree with you. With regard to getting more people involved in theme documentation I think there is an issue in accessing the documentation. It took me almost 5 minutes to find the theme area.

I started from here:

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Main_Page

I figured to contribute to theme documentation I should choose 'developer'

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Developer_documentation

However, once here it is not clear from the contents list as themers are defined using a negative construct!

4 How you can contribute

• 4.1 Make a new plugin
• 4.2 Change core code
• 4.3 Ways to contribute that do not involve PHP programming

So rather than clearly stating 'theme developers' or 'theme designers' ie giving us a meaningful name we are referred to as the people who are not involved in PHP programming ; ).

In my opinion this is not clear as a label and if I were to perhaps be a touch controversial I would say it perhaps also indicates the low priority given to designers / themers working on Moodle interface design. I appreciate that this is changing and am trying to contribute in this area as best I can.

I would suggest changing 4.3 the contents list to be clearer and more user-friendly. In fact all four items listed within 4.3 are valuable and should be given more prominence in the contents.

Thanks again for your efforts on improving the documentation.

~thomas

Navin,

Martin Dougiamas has decided that as Moodle was created in Australia, all text in the forums from now on should be placed the right way up for Australians.

For those of us in the Northern hemisphere there are two simple solutions:

1) Turn your monitor upside down
2) Stand on your head

; )

~thomas

Hi Richard,

Actually this is the optimal way to write this value, because this way a) you save time typing and b) you reduce the number of characters in a style sheet so that it will download as quickly as possible. Have a look here:

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/hex/

~thomas