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| Themes (or skins) define the look of a site. A number of simple themes are provided in the main distribution, but you may want to create your own theme with your own colours, logo, styles and graphics. | | Themes (or skins) define the look of a site. A number of simple themes are provided in the main distribution, but you may want to create your own theme with your own colours, logo, styles and graphics. |
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| Each theme is in a subdirectory of the "theme" directory, and contains at least the following files:
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| * '''config.php''': defines the theme colours used throughout the site
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| * '''styles.php''': the style sheet, containing CSS definitions for standard HTML elements as well as many Moodle elements.
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| * '''header.html''': Included at the top of each page. This is what you need to edit to add a logo at the top of pages, for example.
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| * '''footer.html''': Included at the bottom of each page.
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| To create your own themes for current versions of Moodle:
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| # Copy one of the existing theme folders to one with a new name. I recommend starting with one of the standard themes. | |
| # Edit config.php and insert your own colours.
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| # Edit styles.php and change your CSS styles.
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| # Edit header.html and footer.html to add new logos, or change the layout.
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| Note that all these steps are optional - you can make a radically different look to your site simply by editing the colours in config.php
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| Note also that Moodle upgrades may break themes slightly, so check the release notes carefully if you are using a custom theme.
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| In particular, Moodle 2.0 will have a completely new display system, probably based on XSL transformations of XML output from Moodle. It is likely that the themes for this will be a completely different format, but the advantage will be a much higher possible degree of customisation (including moving elements around the page).
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| More discussion about this in the Themes forum on Using Moodle. If you create a nice theme that you think others might want to use, please post your zip file on the themes forum!
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