Themes affect the appearance of the content on your blog. Although appearance is important, the first bite is with the eye, content is what visitors come to a site for. It is a good idea to consider the content and how it will be arranged before designing on appearance.
Themes set the basic appearance of your site, many can be customised. Options can be accessed via the customiser menu. This can be further altered using custom CSS. With More recent themes, Twenty Twenty-two & Twenty Twenty-three the site edited with the Site Editor. This gives much more flexibility than standard themes.
There are instructions for switching themes on the Glow Help Blog. We also have some tips on Testing and Changing Themes.
Examples
Here are some simple examples sites with the same content using different themes. Each had many pages of information. They also have posts from their classes accessed from subitems in the classes menu. They all could be enhanced in many ways.- Anytown Primary Tutorial Using the Twenty Fourteen theme
- Twenty Sixteen Class Site Tutorial
- Twenty Thirteen School Example
- Twenty Twelve School Example
- Twenty Twenty Two Primary – An example Glow Blogs site
- Twenty Twenty One Primary
- Agama Primary
External Examples
Here are some interesting sites using different themes. Note these are sites created by Glow users, they might change or change theme over time.- Glasgow CREATE Make Theme CREATE (Creativity and Expressive Arts Transforming Education)
- Digilearn Scot Education Scotland’s digital education support site. Another example of the Make theme and some H5P content.
- Coltness High School – Ex Labore Lux using the Agama Pro theme.
