Check the Roller install guide for details on how to create and place a roller-custom.properties file.
You can safely ignore that one in the examples directory. - Dave On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:59 PM, abhay srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Dave, > Thanks for your valuable input. Though I know struts, I will be first > trying the first approach. can you tell me where I have to put > roller-custom.properties file ? > > Right now I see it in webapp\roller\roller-ui\docs\examples\rollertask > > -abhay > > > > Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 7:55 AM, abhay > srivastava wrote: > > Hello, Can anyone tell me how to customize the login the and New Entry > page with different banner and color schemes? For example : The > votemerich.com is also running on roller and they were able to customize the > login page. > > You can customize the front-page by creating a front-page blog theme, > but to customize the login page and the editor/admin UI there are two > approaches. > > The first one is to use the undocumented editor/admin UI theme > capability. If you look in the directory /web/roller-ui/theme you will > find three directories sun, blue and tan. These are three different > themes for the editor/admin UI. You can pick one by specifying the > property 'editor.theme' in your roller-custom.properties file. By > default editor.theme=tan. > > If creating your own theme directory does not give you enough control, > then you will need to understand Struts2 and Tiles. Look in > WEB-INF/tiles.xml for the tiles config and then under > WEB-INF/jsp/tiles for the tiles referenced by tiles.xml. You can > modify those as needed, but remember, next time a Roller release comes > out you may have to do some annoying merges. > > Hope that helps, > - Dave > > > > > --- > Winners don't Quit,Quitters don't Win > > --------------------------------- > Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it > now.
