That's what I ended up doing, but it seems to me to be less friendly than the way it worked before. For two reasons:

1) I can't easily change the default template with a pop-up (I have to edit one template, select all text, copy, edit another, paste, save)

2) It's nice to keep the default template unmodified for comparison purposes or to switch back if I break something.

I understand the benefit of clearly marking (and enforcing the presence of) the required templates, but is there any harm in allowing the default to be changed?

-- Sean


Allen Gilliland wrote:
You can still have a custom homepage, the only requirement is that you
use the template named "Weblog" to represent the homepage for your
blog.  So login, edit template "Weblog", and do whatever you want with
it.

-- Allen


On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 12:59, Sean Gilligan wrote:
I've noticed an issue (don't know whether to call it a change, bug, or documentation discrepancy) in Roller 2.1.

It seems you can no longer change the default "page" for your site from Weblog.vm. It looks like this happened as part of the "StandardizedTemplates" change:
http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Proposal_StandardizedTemplates

This seems a step backwards in functionality because you can't have a home page on your "website" that is not a Weblog page. It also requires you to cut and paste between templates to make a "whole file" change to your homepage.

Regards,

Sean


Documentation references:

Section 4.1 (Weblog Settings):
Lists the "Page to be used as the homepage" setting (I put a ? here when I submitted some edits recently)

Section 5.1 (Weblog and day templates) of the manual says:
"Your weblog page is the main page of your web site, the one that is specified as the default page in your Preferences:Settings page."





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