Moodle: Coloured Boxes

James Neill
University of Canberra
April, 2009

The Problem

Moodle site home pages tend to be:Plain

Boring

Long

Navigationally complex

http://learnonline.canberra.edu.au/course/view.php?id=1414

Boxes and Tables

Organisation of content into tables, with judicious use of styling (e.g., colour), can improve the aesthetic and usability of information.

A box is simply a single-celled table.

Link

Cut & paste from word processor

Warnings: this canAdd excessive code

Make it difficult to subsequently edit html

Affect style of whole page

How to

Although the Moodle WYSIWIG editing interface can be used, it is probably easier to use an external HTML editor and to edit HTML table code.

HTML editors

Free, online: e.g., Online-html-editor.org

FOSS: e.g., NVU

Proprietary e.g., Microsoft Frontpage

Example

Hi, my name is James Neill.

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