Blogging Roller

James Todd:a handful of my citizen blog peers have added swag 'chat' links to thier sites:

• Chat with Alan
• Clingan Zone
• Jim's Chat
• GonzoLand

i truly appreciate folks kicking these ideas around. great dialog. great ideas. all grounded in very real world activities. just the way it should be. make it real! further, when i have run into a brick wall, for various reasons, i tend to turn more often or not to those that post here at blogs.sun.com.

Keep an eye on that guy. MyJXTA based blog chat is starting to catch on at blogs.sun.com.

Junkfood has a nice summary of the different levels of Roller customization and the documentation you need to do customization. He writes "Roller is poorly documented" and he's right. I haven't updated the user guide since 0.9.8 and the macro reference, which is auto-generated from tags in the Velocity code just doesn't cut it. I'm working on user and install docs now. Next up are the customization docs.

Here are Junkfood's levels of Roller customization:

1. Edit CSS stylesheets to customize styles.
2. Edit page templates to add/delete/move page elements and Roller macros.
3. Select different theme packages to get different base page templates and CSS stylesheets.
4. Create and use new macros.
5. Override existing Roller macros.
6. Change Roller configuration and installation.
7. Change Apache configuration.
8. Edit Roller source code.

I added nofollow attributes to all links displayed from incoming comments, referrers, and trackbacks to Roller today. This fix and a couple of others will be included in a Roller 1.0.1 release sometime next week.