Essential Blogging (O'Reilly Ser.) - Softcover

Doctorow, Cory

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0596003889 ISBN 13: 9780596003883

Publisher: O′Reilly, 2002

Synopsis

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

Written by prominent bloggers and authors of blogging tools, Essential Blogging is a no-nonsense guide to the technology of blogging.

About this title

About the Author

Shelley Powers is an independent consultant and writer, currently living in Boston, Ma. She's written articles and books on various web technologies, including the book Developing ASP Components for O'Reilly. Shelley has her own company, YASD (www.yasd.com), and can be reached at shelleyp@yasd.com. Rael Dornfest is a Researcher at the O'Reilly & Associates focusing on technologies just beyond the pale. He assesses, experiments, programs, and writes for the O'Reilly network and O'Reilly publications. Dornfest is Program Chair of the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Chair of the RSS-DEV Working Group, and developer of Meerkat: An Open Wire Service. In his copious free time, he develops bits and bobs of Open Source software and maintains his raelity bytes Weblog. Cory Doctorow's first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, will be published by Tor Books in Fall, 2002. He co-edits the Weblog Boing Boing, and won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Science Fiction Writer at the 2000 Hugo Awards. He is the Outreach Coordinator for the EFF.

Edition details

• Publisher: O′Reilly
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0596003889
• ISBN 13: 9780596003883
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260