On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:38 PM, abhay srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Dave. > > I was looking under the theme directory but couldn't find the image for the > color of top strip that comes on the login page, above the sentence "Welcome > to Roller"
You're going to have to start using View Source and looking at the HTML and CSS to understand what's going on. - Dave > > Is it defined in color.css or is their a seperate .gif file for that ? > > Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 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 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. > > > > --- > Winners don't Quit,Quitters don't Win > > --------------------------------- > > > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.
