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Essential blogging / Cory Doctorow ... [et al.].
Contributor(s): Doctorow, Cory
| Dornfest, Rael | Johnson, J. Scott | Powers, Shelley | Trott, Benjamin | Troo, Mena GPublisher: Beijing ; Farnham : O'Reilly, 2002Description: xiii, 244 p. ill.; 24 cm001: 8220ISBN: 0596003889Subject(s): Web site design | Weblogs (Blogs)DDC classification: 006.7 DOC
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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.Includes index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. ix)
- 1. Introduction to Blogging (p. 1)
- The World of Blogging (p. 1)
- Anatomy of a Blog (p. 3)
- Anatomy of a Blog Post (p. 10)
- Syndication (p. 17)
- Blogging Tools (p. 19)
- 2. Desktop Clients (p. 26)
- The Settings (p. 26)
- BlogScript (p. 28)
- BlogApp (p. 29)
- BlogBuddy (p. 29)
- w.bloggar (p. 30)
- Slug (p. 31)
- Radio UserLand (p. 32)
- 3. Hosted Blogging with Blogger (p. 34)
- How Blogger Works (p. 34)
- Requirements (p. 35)
- Your Blog, Quick Start (p. 36)
- Basic Blogger Settings (p. 40)
- Managing Your Posts (p. 43)
- Archiving in Detail (p. 47)
- Changing Your Account Profile (p. 48)
- Basic Use of Templates (p. 49)
- Self-Hosting (p. 52)
- Browser Shortcuts (p. 57)
- Blogger Buzz (p. 58)
- Group Blogs (p. 59)
- Removing a Blogger Blog (p. 61)
- Support (p. 61)
- 4. Desktop Blogging with Radio UserLand (p. 62)
- Installing Radio UserLand (p. 63)
- Welcome to Radio (p. 67)
- A Visual Tour of Using Radio (p. 69)
- Routing or Commenting on Content (p. 76)
- The Radio Menu (p. 78)
- Setting Your Radio Preferences (p. 79)
- Publishing Your Blog (p. 82)
- Stories Instead of Posts (p. 87)
- Adding Pictures to Your Posts (p. 90)
- Source Editing Your Radio Entry (p. 94)
- 5. Server Blogging with Movable Type (p. 96)
- Why Use a Server-Based Solution? (p. 97)
- Installing Movable Type (p. 99)
- Using Movable Type (p. 110)
- Creating a New Entry (p. 113)
- Comments (p. 117)
- Adding a New Author (p. 119)
- Uploading an Image (p. 121)
- Syndication (p. 122)
- The Future of Movable Type (p. 125)
- 6. Advanced Blogger (p. 127)
- Basics of Blogger Pro (p. 127)
- The Blogger Template (p. 133)
- Template Customization (p. 136)
- Customizing the Archive (p. 140)
- Adding Comments (p. 144)
- Incorporating Statistics (p. 148)
- Automated Blogrolling (p. 151)
- Adding Support for Syndication (p. 153)
- Integrating Blogger into an External Application Environment (p. 154)
- Exporting Blogger Data (p. 155)
- 7. Advanced Radio UserLand (p. 157)
- Radio, Frontier, and Manila (p. 157)
- Radio Techniques (p. 158)
- Backing Up Your Radio (p. 165)
- Themes, Templates, and Macros (p. 166)
- Understanding How Radio Works (p. 175)
- Important Radio URLs (p. 178)
- Upstreaming (p. 179)
- Online Resources for Advanced Users (p. 180)
- 8. Advanced Movable Type (p. 181)
- Changing the Look and Feel of Your Blog (p. 181)
- Blog Configuration (p. 186)
- Archiving Options (p. 187)
- Using the XML-RPC API (p. 194)
- Security Issues (p. 195)
- Tips and Tricks (p. 197)
- More Information (p. 203)
- 9. Minimalist Blogging with Blosxom (p. 204)
- Requirements (p. 204)
- Downloading (p. 205)
- Installing Blosxom (p. 205)
- Optional Configuration Directives (p. 207)
- Blogging (p. 207)
- Viewing Your Blog (p. 208)
- Editing and Deleting Entries (p. 209)
- Creating Another Weblog (p. 210)
- Syndicating with RSS (p. 211)
- Customizing and Styling (p. 211)
- Aggregating RSS with Blagg (p. 216)
- Running Blagg (p. 219)
- Third-Party Additions (p. 222)
- 10. Blogging Voices (p. 223)
- Index (p. 235)
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