Moodle Themes

Please note, I haven’t had time to maintain the themes for years, and they’re very well outdated now.  You could probably easily patch them up to work with the latest versions of Moodle, but, in some cases (esp. with Université) it might be best to start from scratch.  Hopefully I’ll get back to Moodle theme DEV in the next year or so. Take care. R

You might come to this blog looking for my moodle theme designs, Créatif or Université.  You can find info and help for the themes here, but the files now live at moodle.org, see below for the links.

The original blog posts about the themes, which have instructions, and the new download links are as follows:

• Créatif: Download the theme from Moodle.org, view the blog post
• Université: Download the theme from Moodle.org, view the blog post

DOWNLOADS GETTING SORTED

I’ve submitted both the themes at Moodle.org, and they’re pending review before release.  So, you should be able to download the themes there very soon : )

Updates – now available for Moodle 2.1

I finally just finished, checked everything over in all the browsers and I think I’ve got all the bugs covered for Moodle 2.1.  Funnily enough, I don’t think there was really anything going wrong in the Créatif theme, but Université had tons of problems, all of which are fixed (that I could find anyway).

Here’s a summary of the changes for the Université theme:

• Colour problem with dock titles, fixed.
• YUI3 tabs were putting tabs in the wrong order, this is fixed – I actually just removed YUI3 tabs from the theme and used the theme’s colour settings to skin tabs, so they match better now anyway.
• Tidied up and fixed a heap of bugs in the display of the course boxes – they’re the boxes where courses are listed on the moodle home and when you search for stuff – they’re layed out nice and clear without a problem now.
• Removed a bunch of not-needed commented out code :s… dunno why I left it there anyway.
• Lots of little minor adjustments.
• Skinned the Main Menu a little more so it uses the colours specified in the theme settings.  I also repositioned it so it actually looks nicer and more proper.
• Mobile detection: I also did some quick n dirty mobile detection, and this may or may not go down good, I’m not sure.  It basically reshuffles the whole layout client-side; like in my previous post about making the themes a little smarter.  I realise Moodle 2.1 has some fancy mobile detection enhancements (understatement), but I don’t have time to suss them out properly so this is an interim solution just to make the viewing of Moodle via a mobile a little better/easier on the user.
• Included in the mobile detection was some iPhone/iPad/iPod home screen icons – so if you bookmark Moodle to your home screen’s you get a nice Moodle icon.

So.. where to from here?

• About to begin on a new version of Université, called Université2012 which will do away with the jQuery skinning aspect and have every little colour detail customisable from the theme settings – which means much less javascript as well.. it’ll also include a couple of other features and hopefully mobile-friendly CSS.
• Files will still need a new home, as per the details below.. not sure when I’ll shut them down at this point.

Change the logo in the themes?

I noticed a lot of hits from people searching on how to change the logo, especially in the Université theme; so, I thought I’d recap right here as well.  To update the logo, all you need to do is replace the logo.png file in the images directory of the theme, with your own logo.png file! That’s it : )

Cheers
Rolley