- Paperback: 260 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (Sep 4 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0596003889
- ISBN-13: 978-0596003883
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 17.8 x 1.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 422 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,332,325 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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
Product Description
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.
Essential Blogging covers:
- 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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3.0 out of 5 stars
Good for beginners,
By Big Cajun Man "Big Cajun Man" (Ottawa, Ontario) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Essential Blogging: Selecting and Using Weblog Tools (Paperback)
The book itself is an excellent resource for beginner bloggers who want to start out and figure out how to set up their blog (using Blogspot as their hosting software). It does a step by step set up procedure and then starts adding in more and more details for the beginner to 'tweak' and enhance their content to get more readers and more interest in what they write (unless you are writing a blog you don't want anybody to read, very useful advice).
When I first started blogging I think I would have appreciated this book a lot more because it talks about changing the default templates from Blogspot and how to use all the variables that blogspot gives you access to. Lots of information on how to customize the default blogroll for the blogspot set up would have helped me a lot as well. Some information about Movable type work, that I skimmed, since I wasn't really interested in it. Review:Overall a very useful book for the beginner blogger who wants to get started quickly and wants to learn the ins and outs of blogging and get up and running quickly. If you use blogspot I would also recommend this book (although hopefully there is a newer version that elaborates on the Widgets in the new Blogspot configuration). I did not buy this book, I borrowed it from the Ottawa Public Library and would not buy it myself, but it was a useful read for me. ISBN: 0-596-0038-9
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good guide to some specific software,
This review is from: Essential Blogging: Selecting and Using Weblog Tools (Paperback)
"Blogging" (the practice of keeping a public on-line journal to record personal thoughts, observations and links), is hot news on the internet these days. Many of the best-known names in the business keep such journals, so it's not surprising that the book publishers want to cash in.Things in the world of blogging move fast. Minor celebrities rise and fall, new software is continually being released, new jargon is invented. It's hard for a paper book to keep up. There are some aspects of blogging which are gaining some permanancy. Unfortunately, this book only skims those topics, preferring to spend nearly 200 pages describing how to use particular (late 2002) versions of a few blogging tools. The most incisive and thought-provoking part of the book is the last ten pages - interesting quotes from a range of bloggers. It's the only bit which shows any of the excitement and "buzz" of blogging and gets you wanting to get involved. This is not a bad book. But it's not really the book described in its own advertsing. If you want a rough guide to comparing, installing and using a small selection of the well-known blog software offerings, this book is right for you. If you want a more thoughtful and detailed overview of what blogging is all about, why you should do it, what the terminology means, or how it works "under the hood", keep looking.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not enough code for me,
By Stacey L. Camp (Stanford, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Essential Blogging: Selecting and Using Weblog Tools (Paperback)
I bought this book hoping for a little more code (html or java) to help me design my own weblog, but it left me hanging. It gives a great description of what a weblog is and how to get it up and running, but lacks in design elements.
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