NewSchool Learning: Standards Based Moodle Designs

I’m pleased to announce that Solstice (my first “Premium” theme) is finished and currently available for the low price of $39.95! It was a long week; I pushed myself to get this theme done as soon as possible. My goal was to have it available throughout the summer while I work on my [...]

On two separate Moodle themes (VikingNet and Serenity), I’ve hacked the CSS of the login block so that it appears in the header instead of in a sideblock column, where it belongs. For some layouts (VikingNet is a good example), this really works. So, I thought it might be helpful to others if [...]

I’ve just completed the layout and three color schemes for what will become NewSchool Learning’s first Premium Theme. I’m calling this theme “Solstice” because the first color scheme I came up with reminded me of the change from spring to summer (clever, I know).
As of yet, Solstice is only an idea - the image [...]

Here is a really good example of what can be done with an existing theme. For this client, I stripped down the colors and background gradients from the Autumn theme and replaced them with images matching their company website and logos. The result is a very clean, bright theme branded for their specific [...]

Let’s take a minute to highlight a few of the changes that have occurred on NewSchool Learning over the past week:

If you look to the top of this page, you’ll see that I’ve added a “Support” link to help with any problems you may encounter with any of my work (free or otherwise). This [...]

I spent a couple hours this week updating my free Autumn theme for Moodle. Here is a list of changes:

Autumn CSS has been completely rewritten on top of the Standard theme. This means that your Moodle installation will load Autumn in addition to the Standard theme, rather than in place of it. [...]

I present my first theme for Moodle. In fact, I learned how to code CSS making this theme.
VikingNet is a 3-column, 960px fixed-width theme for Moodle that uses the background images from a Joomla template purchased for a different reason. I liked the way that this template looked and, at that [...]