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Apache Roller 4.0 - Beginner's Guide
Apache Roller 4.0 - Beginner's Guide

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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Apache Roller 4.0 - Beginner's Guide

Chapter 1. An Introduction to Weblogs

Welcome to the world of blogging with Apache Roller! In this first chapter of the book, you will learn some useful facts about blogs, and how you can use them to become a part of the blogosphere—a term used in the blogging world to describe all the blogs on the Internet as one giant community. We'll also see several examples about promoting your business or professional activities, how you can get in touch with customers (or potential customers) for your business, express your ideas, hobbies, feelings, and share your experiences with other bloggers. This chapter is designed to illustrate the world of blogs to absolute newcomers. It is intended to foster thoughts and ideas as to how you might use and gain advantage from blogs. Of course, it may be that you are well aware of the blogosphere, and are itching to get your feet wet with Apache Roller straightaway. If so, please feel free to skip ahead to the next chapter which shows you how to install Roller. If, however, you want to learn more about blogs, we shall:

  • Learn about the basic concepts of a blog, and what you can do with it

  • See a comparison between blogs and Content Management Systems (CMS)

  • Learn how newsfeeds can help to promote your blog

Are you ready? Let's begin.

Basic concepts about weblogs


Before we start with some examples and exercises, let's review some common terms used in the blogging arena:

Term

Definition

Tip

Weblog

A website that shows text entries, or posts in a chronological order.

The terms blog and weblog are interchangeable; you can use a weblog as a personal diary, as a journal to record your activities during working hours, to share photos from your last family vacation, and so on.

Post

An individual entry of a weblog.

In a post, you can include text, images, sounds and videos, links to other posts/websites, and so on. A post always includes the date and time of its creation.

Comment

A text-based response to a post.

Comments are very useful both for bloggers and blog visitors. They help to establish a two-way communication.

Newsfeed (or Feed)

A collection of the most recent posts and comments from a weblog in XML format (RSS or Atom feeds).

Newsfeeds can help you receive the latest information from any blog through RSS or Atom feeds. And you can offer these newsfeeds from your blog, too.

Newsfeed Reader

An application used to read one or more RSS or Atom feeds.

A feed reader gets you the latest information from one or more blogs, without even having to visit them!

These are just some of the terms we're going to use extensively in this chapter.

What can you do with a weblog?


Maybe we should rephrase the title of this section as "What can't you do with a weblog?", as the only limit is your imagination! We're about to take a ride along the cyber-universe of the blogosphere, where you'll see some interesting ways in which people use blogs.

Express your feelings to the world

One of the most popular uses of weblogs is to express people's thoughts and feelings. When you publish a post, it shows up in your weblog's front page. But if you know how to take advantage of websites such as Google, Technorati, Dzone, Digg, and Slashdot, among others, what you write can be read by hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people!

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Key benefits

  • Create, optimize, and maintain your own blog server using Apache Roller
  • Incorporate multimedia content from popular web tools like YouTube, Google Maps, Twitter. and SlideShare in your posts
  • Customize the appearance of your blog with visually appealing, powerful themes and templates
  • Increase your blog's search engine ranking and keep track of visitors using Google Webmaster Tools

Description

Apache Roller enables you to build a fully-featured, multi-user blog server apt for all kinds of blogging sites. It is an ideal tool to create your own blogging network with unlimited users and blogs, forums, photo galleries, and more! While it is exciting to have a list of interesting features it can offer you, it might be a little difficult to get started with it by your self. This book will teach you how to get started with Apache Roller and make the most of all its features using step-by-step, detailed instructions. You will learn how to establish your internet presence with an Apache Roller blog and use the latest web tools to enhance your posts and attract visitors. You will also learn how to promote your blog on popular social bookmarking services and customize it to suit your need. This hands-on and practical book introduces you to Apache Roller. Starting off with the configuration and installation of your own blog, you'll then quickly learn how to add interesting content to your blog with the help of plenty of examples. You'll also learn how to change your blog's visual appearance with the help of Roller themes and templates and how to create a community of blogs for you and your colleagues or friends in your Apache Roller blog server. The book also looks at ways you can manage your community, and keep your site safe and secure, ensuring that it is a spam-free, enjoyable community for your users.

Who is this book for?

If you are interested in establishing a blog, using Apache Roller and popular web applications to write attractive posts and promote your blog on all the major social bookmarking services, this book is for you. No previous experience on Tomcat, MySQL, the Apache Web Server, or Linux is required.

What you will learn

  • Install and configure Apache Roller on a Windows or Linux environment
  • Integrate Apache Roller with Tomcat by installing and configuring the mod_jk connector
  • Upload images, sounds, and videos to your blog with ease
  • Customize your blog s visual appearance using Roller themes and templates
  • Enhance the appearance of your posts using the Rich Text Editor included in Roller
  • Promote your blog using major social bookmarking services like Technorati, Digg, Del.icio.us, and StumbleUpon
  • Embed maps, videos, and document presentations in your blog using Google Maps, YouTube, and SlideShare
  • Run a Roller blog from your own PC by creating an account with a dynamic DNS service provider
  • Create a community of blogs with Apache Roller s built-in multi-user/multi-blog tools and the Planet Roller aggregator

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Table of Contents

8 Chapters
An Introduction to Weblogs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Installing Roller on Windows Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Installing Roller on Linux Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
How to Start Working with Roller Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Spicing Up Your Blog Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Roller Themes and Blog Promotion Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Working with Templates Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Comments and Trackbacks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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When I first started blogging almost 3 years ago, I was looking at Roller as my blog engine of choice but the learning curve on the product seemed a bit steep for someone with no experience in this medium. I actually did give Roller a spin for a brief period of time but then became frustrated with the lack of well-written documentation and felt that I wouldn't get off and running easily if I needed to worry not only about the content itself but also managing Roller's internals as well. Too bad for me that this book came out three years later because the Apache Roller 4.0 Beginner's Guide by Alfonso Romero is a near-perfect introduction to blogging and blogging with Apache Roller.The book's first three chapters cover blogging in general, how to use Roller as your blog engine, and how to get up and running using on Windows or Linux platforms. Detailed instructions are provided for integrating with the techstack that many of us web and middleware administrators are already familiar with: linux, apache, mysql, and tomcat.Later chapters cover almost everything one would need to know in order to use Roller for creating content, working with images or video, and how to customize styles and templates to get the look you want. I liked how Mr. Romero also included information on dealing with some of the 'gotchas' that one were to come across during normal Roller use. One example is dealing with file upload sizes larger than 1MB and easy-to-follow steps for solving that issue.Some of the other things that I liked that were included in this guide are tips for blog promotion on various social networking sites but one item missing that I thought might be useful for beginning bloggers as well as bloggers new to Roller was information on search engine optimization. For a blogger like myself who gets 85% of his site's traffic from search engines, I would love to know how to customize individual posts or templates for search engine optimization. Maybe that will be covered in the Intermediate User's Guide (hint, hint!).To close, the Apache Roller 4.0 Beginner's Guide is a well-written and well-edited book if you want to get up-close and personal with Apache Roller. For bloggers looking to use Roller as their personal or business weblog engine, this book provides pretty much everything one needs to know to get started and I highly recommend getting this book.
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