gshaw Posted March 31, 2010 Posted March 31, 2010 We've took the (slightly unusual) step of combining our website content onto our new Moodle VLE platform as I couldn't see the point of having 2 separate web entities and I think we've prettied up our Moodle sufficiently to do the marketing side of things as well as the learning environment Also works quite well as a method of getting people used to the interface before going on their course! Redbridge Institute of Adult Education Any feedback from fresh eyes would be great... can you find where to go to get info on courses, where to get a map of our centre etc... 1
danbuntu Posted March 31, 2010 Posted March 31, 2010 i really like it - Moodle has a habit of looking old and tired but that themes really nice and fresh. Are the 'standard' pages just course with all the weeks turned of? 1
round2it Posted March 31, 2010 Posted March 31, 2010 when i hover over a menu item the background moves up and down looks good though using win 2000 ie6 that will be the problem not your site 1
gshaw Posted March 31, 2010 Author Posted March 31, 2010 i really like it - Moodle has a habit of looking old and tired but that themes really nice and fresh. Are the 'standard' pages just course with all the weeks turned of? Yup it's a 1-topic course with guest access on and the topic hidden (just using the intro section) Had to do a lot of theme tweaking, Photoshopping and icon browsing to get the fresher look... glad it's working so far when i hover over a menu item the background moves up and down looks good though using win 2000 ie6 that will be the problem not your site Yup I know all about IE6, what a nightmare browser Had to rewrite the menu to display at all in IE6, the aardvark theme ours is based on doesn't work on 6 at all but I figured the slight flicker \ background bounce is acceptable on such an old browser, hence the browser detection message a bit further down hehe
kmount Posted March 31, 2010 Posted March 31, 2010 Wow is all I can say, that is stunning, absolutely stunning. Well done.
gshaw Posted March 31, 2010 Author Posted March 31, 2010 site is blocked by our ISP(durhamNet) Does it say what category of offensiveness we've fallen into lol?
Flakes Posted March 31, 2010 Posted March 31, 2010 Does it say what category of offensiveness we've fallen into lol? doesnt say, unfortunately the filter they use is naff, sometimes we get the red screen telling us why the site is blocked but 99% of the time we get a white page with no message, which is what im getting today.
Flakes Posted April 1, 2010 Posted April 1, 2010 Does it say what category of offensiveness we've fallen into lol? filter working correctly today, heres what it says: Your requested URL has been blocked by the Real-Time Classifier. The page contained content which is not allowed by your administrator at this time. URL: Redbridge Institute of Adult Education User: - (10.174.112.22) Policy: PontelandHigh Categories: sexual, erotic or adult content (66% probability overall) (Realtime Classifier) Reputation: Neutral (0) Media Type: text/html 1
gshaw Posted April 1, 2010 Author Posted April 1, 2010 Haha quality, I bet it's the "Adult" in our title that's done it! Reminds me of when I was leaving my last job to come here years ago, told them I was going to an Adult Education college to which the reply was "do they do film courses"
danbuntu Posted April 1, 2010 Posted April 1, 2010 for the IE 6 issue my new theme uses this: Pushuptheweb.com Stops having the code for such a horrible browser and also helps make the web a safer place 1
gshaw Posted April 1, 2010 Author Posted April 1, 2010 for the IE 6 issue my new theme uses this: Pushuptheweb.com Stops having the code for such a horrible browser and also helps make the web a safer place How I wish I'd knew about that before spending ages on if statements and css trickery to do my browser detection block! Just added the code in and it works nicely, should be enough of a hint to stop using IE6 for anyone still with it
painejake Posted April 1, 2010 Posted April 1, 2010 (edited) Page still not loading for me not sure if its a issue on our side though as the net provided by BGfl hasnt been exactly reliable lately... Edit: Tested via 3G on my phone and still gettting a 504 error. Edited April 1, 2010 by painejake 1
gshaw Posted April 1, 2010 Author Posted April 1, 2010 Page still not loading for me not sure if its a issue on our side though as the net provided by BGfl hasnt been exactly reliable lately... Edit: Tested via 3G on my phone and still gettting a 504 error. That's odd, seems to be working for me on Orange 3G
danbuntu Posted April 1, 2010 Posted April 1, 2010 if working fine for me both from the college and the my home
gshaw Posted April 9, 2010 Author Posted April 9, 2010 The migration is complete and it's now our live site Added a few extras onto it as well now, OWA link in the top login section and a Moodle Bar addon for the bottom... so far so good
Cue Posted April 9, 2010 Posted April 9, 2010 Returning Untitled Document for me, or did I just come at a bad time where you had a blank index.html uploaded?
Devontechie Posted April 9, 2010 Posted April 9, 2010 Returning Untitled Document for me, or did I just come at a bad time where you had a blank index.html uploaded? I ended up replacing the vle with www in the address to get it to work - Redbridge Institute of Adult Education
EduTech Posted April 10, 2010 Posted April 10, 2010 i am shocked! that it absolutly great.. well done! looks very nice and those little things you have done make a huge difference! James.
mac_shinobi Posted April 10, 2010 Posted April 10, 2010 (edited) Most likely how its meant to be with ref to the ispy live posts bit , however when I click on it and it keeps moving posts down, most of the time I see one and it keeps moving them down so I don't have a chance to click on it and I find it annoying. Don't suppose there is a preference so that it just loads all of them as they are without moving them down. Other then that the rest is great Edited April 10, 2010 by mac_shinobi
srochford Posted April 10, 2010 Posted April 10, 2010 Not loading at all for me in either Chrome or IE8 - just a blank page. Intrigued at @flake's block report "policy: PontelandHigh" - that's the name of a school in Northumberland. Is the filtering company blocking your site because Ponteland requested it or is their school site and others like it blocked??
Cue Posted April 10, 2010 Posted April 10, 2010 Looks good, though I can't help but wonder whether it may be a little too crowded in places? Also, I'd fix up the domain so that it works without the www, not allowing www-less access generally annoys people to no end (why do we even use that any more?).
Edu-IT Posted April 10, 2010 Posted April 10, 2010 Not loading at all for me in either Chrome or IE8 - just a blank page. Intrigued at @flake's block report "policy: PontelandHigh" - that's the name of a school in Northumberland. Is the filtering company blocking your site because Ponteland requested it or is their school site and others like it blocked?? It's moved from development to live, the original vle. link no longer works. Redbridge Institute of Adult Education
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