An overview of the look and feel

Moodle can be fully customized in terms of layout, branding, and device support. It has to be stressed that certain aspects of changing the look and feel require advanced design skills. While you, as an administrator, will be able to make some adjustments, it will be necessary to get a professional frontend designer involved, especially when it comes to styling.

The two relevant components for customization are the Moodle front page and Moodle themes. Before we cover both areas, let's try to understand which part is responsible for which element of the look and feel of your site.

In the upcoming screenshot, have a look at the front page of the Moodle site after we have logged in as the administrator. It is not obvious which parts are driven by the Moodle theme and which ones by front page settings. The following table, which looks at the page's elements from the top to the bottom when the core Clean or More theme has been applied, sheds some light on this:

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