Time for action — creating your first template
In this exercise, you'll learn to create and edit your first custom template via Roller's admin interface:
Open your web browser, log into Roller, and go to the Templates page, under the Design tab:
On the Add a new template panel, type mytemplate in the Name field, leave the default custom value in the Action field, and click on the Add button:
The mytemplate template you've just created will show up in the templates list:
Now click on the mytemplate link under the Name field, to open the mytemplate file for editing:
Leave the mytemplate value for the Name field, type mytemplate in the Link field, and type My First Template in Apache Roller! in the Description field:
Then replace the
<html><body></body></html>line with the following HTML code:<html> <body> Welcome to my blog, <b>$model.weblog.name</b> </br> This is my first template </br> My weblog's absolute URL is: <b>$url.absoluteSite...
