Re: Inspiration // News blogs powered with Roller

Yes, indeed. Very professional and clean design. Thank you for posting
these links, Nicolas.

It's funny how Roller-based blogs look so much better than Roller itself ;-)

It looks like you did not use the multi-language blog feature. Can you say
anything about how you handled the different language versions of the
blogs?

- Dave



On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Matt Raible <[email protected]> wrote:

> Wow - these look great! I really like the design.
>
> On May 14, 2013, at 6:34 AM, nicolas muller <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > We sent a new series of blogs built with Roller :-) We speak about
> > financial and legacy for private banking.
> >
> > In french you will have :
> > http://www.guywagnerblog.com/fre/
> > http://www.femmesetpatrimoine.lu/femmes/
> > http://www.banquedeluxembourgnews.com/actualites/
> >
> > In English you will have :
> > http://www.guywagnerblog.com/eng/
> > http://www.banquedeluxembourgnews.com/news/
> >
> > It exists translation for dutch, german and spanish too.
> >
> > I allow himself to post onto these two mailing list because I will
> explain
> > a few things how to do it. I think you like the products else you should
> > not use it.
> >
> > We need to modify the source code to be able to display list articles and
> > themes macro to keep the day information. In our case, it is not usefull
> to
> > have list of posts by day. The themes use responsiv design concepts so we
> > can be displayed nicely on iphone/android and tabs.
> >
> > The most important thing to understand is our use of category. We created
> > severals categories as news, ads, events... ant each category  is used to
> > display informations into an area of the page. The left main panel (with
> > pagination) is only news category. On the right sidebar, we will have
> > advertisement, events, archives... It is very different concept than
> > classic use into Roller. In the same page we display numerous categories
> > rather than filtering with them. It is a powerfull system to build
> complex
> > page but very easily. It is easy for publisher to choose how to display
> the
> > post ^^ You can imagine we have modified macro for that. Therefore it is
> > not too hard to do it.
> >
> > Moreever, we create a page for generating newsletter (using tags
> associated
> > with posts)
> > http://www.guywagnerblog.com/fre/page/newsletter?version=NL_2013_03_01
> > So we can send via email outlook or sarbacane (or mailchimp) the whole
> page
> > :-)
> >
> > Another great but more complicated things we did is to display posts into
> > other blogs to keep duplication of articles
> > http://www.banquedeluxembourgnews.com/news/
> > This blog "news" has own posts and display too posts from guywagnerblog.
> It
> > is possible because we hack tags methods and we have rules to name tags.
> >
> > I hope the design is nice for you too. We try to do beautiful things
> > (similar size, width) to be homogeneous between spaces.
> >
> > I am trying to work onto roller 5 and in few days I will post into github
> > the source code to store resources media into database. For replication
> > between servers we could not use the filesystem so we had this feature. I
> > hesitate to use elasticsearch rather than database for our migration. See
> > you soon.
> >
> > Sorry for my bad speaking english. I am french :)
> >
> > Best regards,
>
>