danIT Posted July 3, 2008 Posted July 3, 2008 Over the last couple of weeks i've been dipping in and out of Moodle trying my level best to create a Moodle theme based on the Joomla EduGeek Theme or I think what Joomla calls Templates. Obviously there are differences between the two system but I have managed to create something which i think looks pretty respectable, but of course i would think that. I have tried to keep the changes to a minimum and based everything on the standard moodle theme and built on top of that. Attached to this post are a few screen shots which should give you a good taste of the theme, I will be releasing the theme as a zip file once I have cleared up the CSS, PHP and Images files and of course added some comments. Feedback greatly appreciated - are there any moodlers out there who are interested in this?
Jona Posted July 3, 2008 Posted July 3, 2008 Looking good, a would say a major thing that lets moodle themes in general down is the icons. Might be worth trying to find some nicer ones than the moodle defaults. Some possible available from here: famfamfam.com: Icons It's looking good, well done! Cheers Jona
danIT Posted July 3, 2008 Author Posted July 3, 2008 (edited) Icons currently in Dev, just making sure I have them all covered. Im probably going to use the icons from the esocratesorg theme, which can be downloaded from here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=40778 But with it being an older theme its missing one or two icons which i might just lift from FamFam. In the mean time i've just added a javascript slideshow to the main page (see new screenshot below). Took the idea from the Joomla plugin which SYSMAN_MK mentions in his blog: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/blogs/sysman_mk/63-lightgreyhighslidebox.html Edited July 3, 2008 by danIT
danIT Posted July 4, 2008 Author Posted July 4, 2008 As promised, and as the Moodle icons also look a bit tiresome in places I have replaced a significant number of them with icons from: famfamfam.com Really finishes the theme off - See screen shot below I might as well release the icon set as an Moodle Theme Icon Set once its all been completed. Famfamfam.com permission pending....
Jona Posted July 4, 2008 Posted July 4, 2008 Looking good, 2 minor criticisms: Restore and import are next to each other and have the same icon which looks a bit weird/confusing. I also don't like the heads facing each other for the forum. We use a speech bubble type icon for ours, can send over if you like? Cheers Jona
danIT Posted July 4, 2008 Author Posted July 4, 2008 Unfortunately that's Moodle for you, both restore and import have the same icon. Only a code change would correct this, attached is a screen shot of the default icon set for Moodle. Also attached is an image of the new Forum icon, I still need to source one or two of the icons for the Modules in Moodle.
danIT Posted July 16, 2008 Author Posted July 16, 2008 Here are my updated Icons for the EduGeek Moodle Theme, Does any body know of a cheap Moodle hosting solution, I basically just want to showcase my Theme so im not interested in many people using the site as everything will be guest access. I would obviously need to have access to the server via SSH or FTP to update the theme on a regular basis?
Jona Posted July 16, 2008 Posted July 16, 2008 Could edugeek possible host it as it does for joomla? If not I can probably offer hosting so long as it doesn't kane bandwidth.
danIT Posted July 16, 2008 Author Posted July 16, 2008 I would need to be able to offer the theme for download, its a huge 1.2mb, and any traffic from Edugeek and the Moodle Themes page on Moodle.org. SYSMAN_MK did mention adding it as an EduGeek Project and hosting along side Joomla but its gone a bit quiet since EduGeek went down.
Jona Posted July 16, 2008 Posted July 16, 2008 Sent you a PM, hopefully edugeek will be able to host it eventually but I've set you up some space to get you started.
danIT Posted July 17, 2008 Author Posted July 17, 2008 (edited) Its finally here: EduMoodle Moodle Theme The EduGeek Moodle Theme, based on the Joomla Package from EduGeek. Edited May 17, 2009 by danIT
Jona Posted July 17, 2008 Posted July 17, 2008 Looks good Dan, the links News, Parents, etc actually go to Joomla.... I don't think this is what you intended? Cheers Jona
Edu-IT Posted July 17, 2008 Posted July 17, 2008 Looks good Dan, the links News, Parents, etc actually go to Joomla.... I don't think this is what you intended? Cheers Jona They're example links I think which could link to other areas on the school website.
Jona Posted July 17, 2008 Posted July 17, 2008 Possible, just worth checking it's slightly confusing because the two pages look very similar but you've moved systems! A better page to see the moodle'ness is here: http://moodle.jonahosting.com/moodle/course/view.php?id=4 (click login as guest if asked). It's looking awesome. One thing I would suggest for the future is making another theme without so much orange as it's a bit in-your-face! Cheers Jona
danIT Posted July 17, 2008 Author Posted July 17, 2008 Yeh the navbar just has example links but they should probably point to pages held inside Moodle rather than jumping to Joomla - Could be confusing. Im also going to be removing the curved boxes around the topics section in each course as 1. It doesn't render correctly and 2. Too much orange as Jona said. Glad people like it.....
danIT Posted July 17, 2008 Author Posted July 17, 2008 All demo links on the orange navbar point to the demo course, instructions have been added to the login screen on how to gain access, e.g. Guest access.
danIT Posted July 17, 2008 Author Posted July 17, 2008 (edited) The theme is now available for download here: EduMoodle or direct download here: Home: EduMoodle Theme Download (zip) or download the icon pack here: Home: EduMoodle Icon Pack (zip) Enjoy.... [Edit] The theme has now been added to the moodle.org theme database: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=26&rid=1641 [/Edit] Edited July 18, 2008 by danIT
danIT Posted July 21, 2008 Author Posted July 21, 2008 The EduMoodle Theme has now had some fixes applied to make it more compatible with IE and version 1.9 of Moodle. Specifically: Messaging window pop-up and contacts list. Files - Files pop-up screen when choosing or uploading a file. Tabs - IE css setup correctly now using meta.php which was originally pointing to the standard theme incorrectly. If you have already downloaded the original version of the theme you will need to download the latest zip file from: Here! Then replace it fully, or the individual files that require replacement are: config.php meta.php styles_layout.css
EduTech Posted August 31, 2008 Posted August 31, 2008 Cnt download this theme as you have reached your bandwidth limit.. any chance you can email this me please. Ta
danIT Posted September 15, 2008 Author Posted September 15, 2008 The EduMoodle Theme can now been seen, and downloaded from: Moodle Themes
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