One of the things that new bloggers tend to complain about is theme customization. It's just too hard to customize the look and feel of your blog. And that's true even if you just want to make a couple of minor tweaks like changing a banner image, changing a background color or adding a "widget" to your sidebar (e.g. a Flickr badge of most recent photos or an RSS listing of recent links from del.icio.us).
With Roller and most other blog servers I've used, you can configure some aspects of your blog's layout and appearance via a web UI with no HTML, CSS or template coding. With Roller and others, you can configure these things: * Change blog title and description * Configure the number of posts displayed on main page * Change from one stock theme to another * Add links to your blogroll * Add new categories to your blog For everything else, you must customize, i.e. edit templates and deal with HTML, CSS and a specialized template language. For non-geeks, that can be pretty daunting. We should improve this situation by making it possible for theme designers to make common customizations easy -- i.e. to allow a user to configure a theme via a nice friendly UI rather than customizing it via template editing. Read the rest here: http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Proposal_ThemeProperties Please respond with comments here on the list. - Dave
