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Archive for June, 2008

06.27.08 / Site Optimized

I just spent the evening “cleaning house” around here. Not the most exciting of chores, but, boy, was it necessary! Our recent redesign took me over a month to layout and code, and I spent no time whatsoever thinking about load times, etc. Then, yesterday, while I was participating in a screen-share [...]

06.21.08 / Autumn and Serenity Updated

I’m glad to say that two of our free themes are now completely up-to-date for Moodle 1.9. While Autumn received only minor tweaks, Serenity was given a complete overhaul with fresh images and CSS.
Both themes are 3-column, fluid-width, and really quite small, so they should still work quite well on older installations.
Download

http://newschoollearning.com/themes/autumn
http://newschoollearning.com/themes/serenity

Enjoy.

06.12.08 / Demo Site Scheduled Downtime

The demo site (http://newschoollearning.com/moodle), and certain themes on it, will be up and down quite a bit over the next couple of days as we upgrade our Moodle installation and themes.
Update: The demo site is back up and running 1.9.1. I’ve also added a new feature! On every page, you should now see a [...]

06.11.08 / New Theme Available: Vitality

I have just uploaded our newest theme, Vitality, and it is now available for purchase.
This is our first (of probably many) themes to take advantage of the new “Custom Corners” variable that became available with the release of Moodle 1.9. What this means is that Vitality uses dynamic rounded corners in places that just [...]