NewSchool Learning: Standards Based Moodle Designs

How we work

Who we are

NewSchool Learning is an online store that sells the Moodle themes created by Patrick Malley. The idea for this site was conceived in June 2007 as a way to justify the countless hours that Patrick was spending with Moodle's HTML and CSS. Today, it has turned into quite the little project!

Patrick has been designing web pages since 1999, and has been working with Moodle since 2005. He designed his first Moodle theme for Niles High School, where he works full time as a History and Psychology teacher. It is his view that Moodle can change the way teachers (and students) do work in the classroom, but that no one will use it if it's ugly. So, he has made it his goal to make as many Moodle themes as possible in his spare time. The small fee that he charges is simply his motivation (and justification to his wife) for meticulously working to make them better and better.

How this site was built

• This site was hand coded using Coda and CSSEdit on a 24 inch iMac.
• Grid provided by the very useful Blueprint CSS framework.
• All background images and designs were created using Adobe Fireworks.
• The blog is powered by Wordpress, which we have dressed in elegant black to match the rest of the site.
• The support forums are powered by Vanilla - also carefully themed to match.
• This site was designed to conform to Web Standards, and every page should validate as such. If it looks like crap on your screen, that's probably because you are using a crappy browser. Try Firefox.
• Javascript is used throughout this site to handle some behavior tricks (Lightbox, Glider, etc.), and also the shopping cart appearance. All of this should degrade nicely if your browser either does not support javascript or if you are an internet purist who disables such things. If it doesn't though, and something either doesn't look right or doesn't function properly, please let us know so that we can either fix it or get rid of it.