Time for action — creating a directory for your theme

Now, I'll show you all the necessary steps to create your new theme directory inside Roller's themes directory in a Linux Ubuntu system, and then copy all the required files. If you're using Windows or any other flavor of Linux, the procedure is very similar:

1. Go to your Roller themes directory and create a directory named mytheme:

   

2. Open a terminal window, go to the themes subdirectory inside Desktop/chapter07, and type sudo cp * /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/roller/themes/mytheme to copy all the mytheme files to your Roller installation:

   

3. In the end, your mytheme directory will have four files, as shown in the following screenshot:

   

4. Now restart Tomcat and wait until it's running again. Then open your web browser, log into Roller, and go to the Design tab to see the Weblog Theme page:

   

5. Click on the Shared Theme option and select My First Roller Theme from the drop-down listbox:

   

6. Click on the Update Theme button to change your current Roller theme,...