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"If you're not a Blogger user then Essential Blogging, the king of the 'how to' books, would me more appropriate." "Packed with tips and code examples it is a treasure trove for the writer who wants to move beyond the standard templates bundled with each system. Even advanced users are likely to find some value in its discussion of BloggerAPI clients used for posting to a blog without firing up a browser." PCW, March "... Essential Blogging, the king of the 'how to' books... Packed with tips and code examples it is a treasure trove for the writer who wants to move beyond the standard templates bundled with each system. Comprising first-hand accounts of what blogging means to some of the community's leading lights, it is precisely what The Weblog Handbook should have been." - Nik Rawlinson, PCW, March
Kurzbeschreibung
Anyone can run a blog, a web site offering running commentary that can range from personal diary entries to political analysis to technology observations. From everyday people to Elvis Costello and RuPaul, bloggers are making their voices heard around the world. Essential Blogging helps you select the right blogging software for your needs and shows you how to get your blog up and running. You'll learn the ingredients of a successful blog and 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, setup, 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.
Essential Blogging covers:
A survey of desktop blogging clients and a discussion of the pros and cons of self-hosting your blog versus using a blog-hosting service. The important components of a blog and a blog post. Hosted blogging with Blogger. Desktop blogging with Radio Userland. Server blogging with Movable Type. Posting, editing, deleting, and adding pictures to blog entries. Advanced features, such as customizing the appearance of your blog with templates, managing archives of blog entries, and adding comments to your blog. Syndicating your stories with RSS. Advice and experience from real-world bloggers.
Written by prominent bloggers and authors of blogging tools, Essential Blogging is a no-nonsense guide to the technology of blogging. Cory Doctorow runs the high-profile boingboing.net blog. Rael Dornfest is the author of Bloxsom. J. Scott Johnson is a leading documentor of Radio Userland. Shelley Powers is a co-author of Unix Power Tools, Third Edition. Ben and MenaTrott wrote the popular Movable Type blogging software.