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Authors: | Cory Doctorow
Rael Dornfest
J. Scott Johnson
Shelley Powers
Benjamin Trott
Mena G. Trott |
ISBN: | 0596003889 |
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Price: | $29.95 US |
Pages: | 260 |
Pub: | O'Reilly &
Associates |
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Book Overview (from the publisher)
Anyone can run a blog (an online journal). From personal diaries to political commentary
and technology observations, bloggers are making their voices heard around the world.
Essential Blogging helps you select the right blogging software for your needs and
show how to get your blog up and running.
You'll learn the ingredients of a successful blog, and then get detailed installation,
configuration and operation instructions for the leading blogging software: Blogger,
Radio UserLand, Movable Type, and Blosxom. After showing you how to acquire, set-up, and
run these leading software packages, Essential Blogging takes you through the more
advanced features, so that by the time you finish, you'll be up and blogging with the best
of them.
Topics covered in Essential Blogging include:
- the important components of a blog and a blog post
- installing and configuring the tools
- a survey of desktop blogging clients
- advice and experience from real-world bloggers
- hosted blogging with Blogger and Blogger Pro
- desktop blogging with Radio UserLand
- server blogging with Movable Type
- posting, editing, and deleting blog entries
- adding pictures to blog entries
- syndicating your stories with RSS
- consuming RSS feeds with Radio UserLand
- customizing the appearance of your blog with templates
- managing and customizing archives of blog entries
- adding comments to your blog
- self-hosting your blog vs using a blog-hosting service
- going under the hood with the Blosxom blogging system
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