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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>That's a strange link ;-) I guess you mean <a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_9011">http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_9011</a> but that prompts for login.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Using the optional stylesheet option does work out much easier if you do have access to the server files rather than uploading all the separate images via media & quota. I've done this by creating a themes folder and then subdirectories in the themes folder for each theme. Haven't really noticed the "theme flash" Mark mentioned - I guess server performance or connection speed could have an impact though.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Julian Tenney<br><b>Sent:</b> 23 January 2014 08:40<br><b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: How to create a new template?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This customisation was all done by the end users, with no access to the server, and no questions to me. It is all possible – a bit fiddly in places I grant you – but possible. The new buttons were uploaded via media and quota and the rest is css.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www/toolkits/play_9011">http://www/toolkits/play_9011</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark Berthelemy<br><b>Sent:</b> 22 January 2014 17:22<br><b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: How to create a new template?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Thanks Ron,<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Understood.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Mark<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Mark Berthelemy<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Managing Director<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Tel:<span class=apple-tab-span> </span>01773 881 227<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Mob:<span class=apple-tab-span> </span>07922 146 761<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Web:<span class=apple-tab-span> </span><a href="http://www.wyversolutions.co.uk">www.wyversolutions.co.uk</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Wyver Solutions Ltd | Company number: 5731173 Registered in England | Registered address: <span style='font-size:10.0pt'>First Floor, 6 Bridge Street, Belper, Derbyshire, DE56 1AX</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p><span style='color:#A0A0A8'>On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 17:17, Ron Mitchell wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Mark</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>custom stylesheet is an optional property so what I meant was that you can include the addition of that in data.xml and the css file in the \modules\xerte\templates\Nottingham\media folder as though it was added to the LO whilst editing. That will apply to the Nottingham template sitewide but then users can obviously replace or remove the css file via the editor.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>pros and cons with each option but if the requirement is different themes for each department I'm not sure that multiple installations or multiple copies of the template are really viable long term.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>As others have alluded there are always areas for improvement and ideally wherever the itch is strong enough those improvements are contributed back.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ron</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark Berthelemy<br><b>Sent:</b> 22 January 2014 16:53<br><b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: How to create a new template?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Hi Ron, <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Forgive the basic questions, but data.xml only contains three elements. None of which are to do with CSS. Where do I find the list of elements that can be added and then tweaked?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Also, when you say customise an installation, do you just mean editing parent_templates/Nottingham/css/themeStyles.css - perhaps by using @import to pull in another CSS file?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>That’s where I’ve ended up so far.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>What I’m hearing is that each department that might want its own branding on LO's needs its own installation of Xerte - because it’s easier to maintain the installations than the templates. Is that right? Or a development team, working with multiple depts will need an instance of Xerte for each dept?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Mark<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>-- <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Mark Berthelemy<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Managing Director<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Tel: 01773 881 227<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Mob: 07922 146 761<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Web: <a href="http://www.wyversolutions.co.uk">www.wyversolutions.co.uk</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Wyver Solutions Ltd | Company number: 5731173 Registered in England | Registered address: <span style='font-size:10.0pt'>First Floor, 6 Bridge Street, Belper, Derbyshire, DE56 1AX</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p><span style='color:#A0A0A8'>On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 16:43, Ron Mitchell wrote:</span><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Mark</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You can make anything you want part of new LO's by tweaking \modules\xerte\templates\Nottingham\data.xml </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>However it's not that simple because of also changing buttons etc and as you suspect it may not resolve the loading order.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I would still suggest customising an installation rather than a copy of the template is a better long term strategy. I don't have time to detail all the reasons for that right now just my experience over many years of maintaining copies of templates and page types.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>HTH</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ron</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark Berthelemy<br><b>Sent:</b> 22 January 2014 16:18<br><b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: How to create a new template?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Hi Ron,</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>It is just the interface I’m looking at. So your idea makes perfect sense. It’s what I was hoping for to be honest.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Where do I find the optional properties for a main template, and the default XML? I know how to tweak CSS for each individual learning object, but not how to make it apply to every learning object.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Will your solution deal with the problem whereby the new CSS is only applied after the LO has loaded with the standard CSS - so you get a flash look at the standard design first?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Mark</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>-- <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Mark Berthelemy<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Managing Director<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Tel: 01773 881 227<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Mob: 07922 146 761<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Web: <a href="http://www.wyversolutions.co.uk">www.wyversolutions.co.uk</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Wyver Solutions Ltd | Company number: 5731173 Registered in England | Registered address: <span style='font-size:10.0pt'>First Floor, 6 Bridge Street, Belper, Derbyshire, DE56 1AX</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p><span style='color:#A0A0A8'>On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 15:22, Ron Mitchell wrote:</span><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Unless you are also talking about customising/branding the different page types too e.g. as well as the player interface, I wouldn't look at adding a new template. It can be quite time-consuming keeping subsequent changes in sync if you create a derivative template based on a particular point in time.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You can add a custom css file to the main template via optional properties and you can also tweak the default xml so that the same custom xss is included in any new LO's created.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The other option which in reality can be quicker and easier than the new template route is to have a separate installation for each customisation required. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Just my experience.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ron</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a 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to brand it.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Is there a recommended way to do this?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>I’m finding it hard to work out which bits of the code-base hold the relevant CSS, and then how to add a new “template(?)” so it can be used by the learning designers.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Mark<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>-- <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p 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