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Apache Roller 4.0 - Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Apache Roller 4.0 - Beginner's Guide A comprehensive, step-by-step guide on how to set up, customize, and market your blog using Apache Roller

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2009
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847199508
Length 388 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Apache Roller 4.0
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. An Introduction to Weblogs FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing Roller on Windows 3. Installing Roller on Linux 4. How to Start Working with Roller 5. Spicing Up Your Blog 6. Roller Themes and Blog Promotion 7. Working with Templates 8. Comments and Trackbacks Pop Quiz Answers
Index

Time for action — basic weblog settings


Each weblog has separate configuration settings that you, the owner, can adjust to your liking. Now let's see how to do that:

  1. Open your web browser and go to your blog's URL (http://localhost/roller). Scroll down the home page until you locate the Login link under the NAVIGATION section, and click on it. As this is the only weblog you have at the moment, Roller will take you to the New Entry page, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. In this web page, there are three tabs: Create & Edit, Design, and Preferences. Click on the Preferences tab, and Roller will show you all the configuration settings available for your weblog:

  3. The Title, Tagline, and Email address of weblog owner fields should already contain the values you typed when creating the weblog. You can change them at this time, in case you want to use another e-mail or another title for your blog. In the About your blog field, type a short description of your blog contents. You can use the...

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