That is definitely one of the drawbacks of Roller: very few good themes. RollerThemes.com addressed that problem to some extent, but now it is gone. On the bright side, Velocity is fairly easy to learn and its not that hard to "port" themes from Wordpress and other places.
Hope that helps... - Dave Template authors guide: ftp://www.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/apache/roller/roller-4/v4.0.1/docs/roller-template-guide.pdf On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Christopher Dodunski <chrisfromsquir...@christopher.net.nz> wrote: > Hi, > > I chose Roller over Wordpress due to the fact that I am a Java developer, > and I always like to support open-source projects - especially Apache > ones. So far I'm impressed with the administration interface and > documentation. But the packaged themes didn't appeal, and so I downloaded > those from http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javanet/OptionalThemesForRoller. > But many of these also don't appeal and/or don't work (e.g. state comments > are closed when they are not). > > Is there another source of Roller themes out there? Does anyone have an > attractive, clean and elegant theme they would like to share? I don't > really have the time to learn Velocity (nor do I have the flair for visual > design). Your help/guidance would be much appreciated. > > Thanks & regards, > > Chris. > > >> The current release of Roller, 4.0.1, cannot do that. >> >> The upcoming Roller 5 will support multiple domains, but has rather >> simple-minded support, there are some limitations and will only work >> well if you have a handful of blogs and don't mind adding a line to >> the config file for each. >> >> If you're interested in helping us work the kinks out of it, then >> please test the Roller 5 release candidate (RC2) and let us know how >> it goes. I can tell you know to configure multi-domain support as I >> use it on my blog. >> >> Roller 5 RC2 announcement: >> http://markmail.org/message/yrlfct6t6xn5rsic >> >> - Dave >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Christopher Dodunski >> <chrisfromsquir...@christopher.net.nz> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I would like to use Roller on my web server. I read that Roller >>> supports >>> multiple blogs. My web server hosts several domains. I would like to >>> know whether I need to install Roller anew for each domain. >>> >>> To use the following domains as examples: >>> >>> http://www.domain1.com >>> http://www.domain2.com >>> http://www.domain3.com >>> >>> Each is to have its own independent blog page, like so: >>> >>> http://blog.domain1.com >>> http://blog.domain2.com >>> http://blog.domain3.com >>> >>> Can this be accomplished with a single installation of Roller? Or do I >>> need to install Roller for each domain? >>> >>> Thanks & regards, >>> >>> Chris. >>> >>> >> > > >
