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After much messing about, I managed to get the currency template modified to not use so many inline HTML formatting tags. Using CSS is much easier, and makes it easier to factor out common styles to be modified from one place. Many complements to the Roller community for producing a fine Open Source blogging interface.
I use Movable Type 3.0 on my personal website, and paid good money for it. Movable Type looks very nice directly out of the box, but requires reading a lot of documentation to get basic plugins, like photo gallery, installed and working. We on the blogs.sun site didn't have to do all of the tinkering, but then, neither do we get to modify the content of the velocimacros used to construct the site. This is probably my one chief gripe about Roller -- I can't get my site to validate to HTML 4.01 Transitional, because some velocimacro tags insert HEAD and HTML/BODY tags in the output. Is there some way to make these tags output more streamlined HTML?
At any rate, no more serious tampering with the HTML/CSS for this page (for now). I'ts prime time.