http://newschoollearning.com/blog Standards Based Moodle Designs Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:20:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As the summer comes to an end for those of us in the academic world, I thought I should share with you what I've been doing with my time. I've been making a lot of custom themes! Here they are (you can click the thumbnail for a larger view): If interested ... http://newschoollearning.com/blog/summer-of-custom-themes/ Last week, I finally finished the Equinox theme for Moodle. It is now available for the low price of $39.95. Download yours today! http://newschoollearning.com/blog/equinox-is-here/ I've been working hard on our 2nd Custom Corners theme, and have finally completed the coding stage of things. It's called Equinox, and you can think of it as the long lost big brother of our Solstice theme. I still have some browser testing/debugging to do, documentation to write, and ... http://newschoollearning.com/blog/coming-soon-equinox/ A couple of months ago, I removed the Stealth theme for some optimization and image replacements with the intent of putting it right back up. Well, needless to say, it's taken me a little longer than planned due to a lot of custom work at the start of this ... http://newschoollearning.com/blog/stealth-is-back/ 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 ... http://newschoollearning.com/blog/site-optimized/ 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 ... http://newschoollearning.com/blog/autumn-and-serenity-now-updated/ 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, ... http://newschoollearning.com/blog/demo-site-scheduled-downtime/ 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 ... http://newschoollearning.com/blog/new-theme-available-vitality/ I had two goals coming into this summer: Redesign the site. Double the number of themes offered. With the exception of a couple small bugs, the first item on my to-do list is done. So, now its time to start making themes! The goal is to double the theme offerings in the ... http://newschoollearning.com/blog/whats-in-the-works/ I'm in the final stages of testing a complete redesign of this site. Be prepared for some changes here in the near future. Update: So, things have clearly been updated. I know some parts are still a little ugly ... I'm working on it. Please let me know if ... http://newschoollearning.com/blog/site-overhaul/