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   Dan wrote:

   Thanks for the credit of the original EduMoodle Theme : )

   I have noticed that when resizing the browser window in some instances the main content is wider than the header.

   You may benefit from setting a minimum and maximum body or container width to prevent this from happening.

   Great stuff!

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   .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) wrote:

   Thanks Dan for your suggestion.
   I apologise for my delay in this answer but I have quite no web access since I am having holidays with my family.
   I will upgrade my theme following your suggestion asap.
   Thanks again.
   Ciao.

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   .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) wrote:

   If I may be critical the system stats around / in the footer are a bit of a mess…the contrast of the background color and links could also be greatly improved

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   .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) wrote:

   Coming from a designers point of view - the footer is a mess in my browser (Firefox), the main body text is very bland and the top header is quite amateurish.

   Overall, not a very aesthetically pleasing site.

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   .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) wrote:

   Steve makes a good point above!

   One issue a lot of people have with Moodle is the look and feel of it…a fantastically powerful system but people get turned off because it doesn’t look great.

   I must be honest and say this theme isn’t aesthetically pleasing either (nothing personal Daniele), if anything it’s going back a step with regards to design in Moodle. It’s not modern, fresh or appealing to look at.

   I should say I’m surprised at a theme such as this currently winning the contest…but I’m not. Googling “Daniele Cordella” you can see Daniele contributes to the Moodle community and sadly fellow “moodlers” will support this theme regardless of how the theme actually looks.

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   .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) wrote:

   Functionality is important but that can always be fixed, the visual identity and graphical appeal of a site will encourage return visits.

   My votes would go out to Decaf, Magazine (how this is UNDER average of 3/5 amazes me!) and Splash for daring to be different and appear like a modern website and I would appeal for other people to consider the design before voting. Do you really want your Moodle site to look like it’s from the 1990’s!?!

   Apologies for my rant but as an avid user and promoter of Moodle it genuinely saddens me to even think of a Moodle 2.0 site looking like this…it’s time to move forward.

   Dessie

   p.s. before i get comments below I’m not affiliated with John Stabinger (magazine entry) and I’m not a designer so therefore am unable to submit a theme for consideration but I do have eyes and am sympathetic towards “good designs” just giving my honest opinion. I appreciate people have spent time designing these I just hoped for a higher calibre to be submitted…

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   .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) wrote:

   Hehe… contest gets heated and it would be nice to see from which ip.s each vote comes from - are all italians voting for Daniele’s theme etc.

   Seriously this kind of voting system does not tell which theme is “the best” - each theme in this contest is buggy and leading Shadow has some big bugs - calendar for example gives “Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: Trying to reference an unknown block region side-post” and if you move calendar block to the doc and open dock you will see another interestring effect…When you turn editing on buttons are not properly aligned and so on.

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   .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) wrote:

   I agree that this design of Shadow is far from “perfect” but I don’t believe that “fellow moodlers” could vote for Daniele’s theme simply because “Daniele contributes to the Moodle community” and regardless of how the theme actually looks. If you have followed the ratings during the past days the first ratings were near 5 and since that most themes have gone down day by day. Maybe the first raters were indeed theme designers themselves (I give myself 5…), then some of their friends and some active moodlers gave new ratings and at the end of this week most themes have almost equal rating near 3…

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   Patrick Malley wrote:

   The average rating is not the sole criterion for selection. If it were, I would have picked a more precise “voting” method. It’s simply ideal to pick themes for the core (and the winner of the iPad) from all the themes that the community finds most appealing. At the end of the day, the winning theme will need to be well built and make creative use of the Moodle 2 theme engine.

   Furthermore, no theme will be included in the core with buggy features, regardless of how popular those features are. We need solid themes more than we need flashy themes.

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    Patrick Malley wrote:

    As an aside, people really like these rounded corner designs. Regardless what some may think, this general look is popular.

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    Dan wrote:

    The theme above is a port of an existing theme, EduMoodle. I think its a great idea to take an existing theme and port it over to Moodle 2.0.

    Although some people may not like this design there are plenty of others who do. As i designed the original EduMoodle theme and host it for downloads I can tell you that since it was released 2 years ago it has been downloaded about 28,000 times. If my maths is any good that means its downloaded about 35 times every day so there clearly are Moodle users out there who want, like and appreciate this theme design.

    Use your vote wisely and in accordance with the rubrik, also bare in mind the competition details:

    http://newschoollearning.com/theme/contest/

    Particularly take note of the Selection text.

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    Dan wrote:

    I’ve entered a theme, and to be honest it was a learning curve. Things are different in Moodle 2.0 which means that we have to start somewhere. The EduMoodle theme originally came about to work alongside a Joomla theme, so it wasnt about design it was about consistency.

    We also all took time out of out personal lives to create these themes, can we play nice : )

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    Dan wrote:

    Its also interesting to look at the number of votes cast along side the average:

    Splash:      231 votes
    Magazine:  117 votes
    Shadow:    195 votes
    Silvern:      104 votes
    Skyhigh:    107 votes
    Edumoodle:  139 votes
    Decaf:        140 votes
    Kickass:      90 votes
    Innovare:    95 votes
    Ocean Blue: 97 votes
    Acqua:      100 votes
    Creatif:      117 votes

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    Patrick Malley wrote:

    Dan, those numbers are interesting, but I’m not convinced that anything funny is going on. The higher numbers for some themes over others could be attributed to several factors.

    You’re right to defend the developers. The Moodle 2 theme engine is completely different and we didn’t provide much time (2-3 weeks) for developers to get their competition themes ready. The time and effort of these developers ought to be respected.

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    Dan wrote:

    I just collated the numbers for my own sake really, I dont think anyone should read anything into them.

    The more people who get involved the better, more votes, more exposure, more opinion which equals great food for thought for the future.

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    .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) wrote:

    Go Shadow!  A remarkable surge up the charts.  A lot of work has went into the voting if not the theme itself.  Well done.

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    .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) wrote:

    There are a good 6 or 7 better themes than this in the contest - very strange voting habits i think for this one. Someone must want an Ipad desperately. Pretty sub-standard theme. Buggy and unattractive.

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