Publishing a Blog with Blogger: Visual QuickProject Guide - Softcover

Castro, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321637526 ISBN 13: 9780321637529

Publisher: Peachpit Press, 2009

Synopsis

If you want to start blogging fast but don't want to get sidetracked by the details, then you need a Visual QuickProject Guide!

• You don't need to know every feature—-you just want to know how to get your project done.
• Full-color illustrations show you how to perform each step of your project from start to finish.
• Low-priced—why pay more than you need?
  

In Publishing a Blog with Blogger: Visual QuickProject Guide, best-selling author, Elizabeth Castro, shows users how to get started in the wonderful world of blogging. This book features large color illustrations and a minimum of verbiage to show brand-new Blogger users each step of the blogging process.  Castro first acquaints readers with the interface and standard options, then walks them through blog setup, creating their profile, posting email, adding pictures and audio. She also covers adding widgets to a blog; tools for tracking Web traffic and following subscriber traffic; using color and customizing layouts; understanding template tags and using tags to categorize content; combating spam; understanding balance and deciding how many blog posts to have on the homepage; privacy issues; posting photos; blogging mobile; and more.

This is ideal entry point to the blogosphere for anyone who wants to get started fast, but doesn't need to know every feature—just how to get the project done!

About this title

About the Author

Elizabeth Castro has called herself a writer since the third grade. Although her bestselling guides to Web publishing, including all five editions of HTML for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, have earned her the official title of computer book author, Blogger gives her a long-desired venue for writing about everything besides computers. You can check out her blog at http://www.pigsgourdsandwikis.com/.

From the Back Cover

In Publishing a Blog with Blogger: Visual QuickProject Guide, best-selling author, Elizabeth Castro, shows users how to get started in the wonderful world of blogging. This book features large color illustrations and a minimum of verbiage to show brand-new Blogger users each step of the blogging process.  Castro first acquaints readers with the interface and standard options, then walks them through blog setup, creating their profile, posting email, adding pictures and audio. She also covers adding widgets to a blog; tools for tracking Web traffic and following subscriber traffic; using color and customizing layouts; understanding template tags and using tags to categorize content; combating spam; understanding balance and deciding how many blog posts to have on the homepage; privacy issues; posting photos; blogging mobile; and more.

This is ideal entry point to the blogosphere for anyone who wants to get started fast, but doesn't need to know every feature--just how to get the project done!

Edition details

• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0321637526
• ISBN 13: 9780321637529
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 192