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Essential Blogging

Selecting and Using Weblog Tools

By
Cory Doctorow, Rael Dornfest, Scott Johnson, Shelley Powers, et al.
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Released:
August 2002
Pages:
260
Description
With weblogs or "blogs" exploding all over the Web, the only thing lacking for power users and developers is detailed advice on how choose, install, and run blogging software. Written by leading bloggers, Essential Blogging includes practical advice and insider tips on the features, requirements, and limitations of applications such as Blogger, Radio Userland, Movable Type, and Blosxom. This book will get you up and blogging in no time.
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Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Introduction to Blogging

    1. The World of Blogging

    2. Anatomy of a Blog

    3. Anatomy of a Blog Post

    4. Syndication

    5. Blogging Tools

  2. Chapter 2 Desktop Clients

    1. The Settings

    2. BlogScript

    3. BlogApp

    4. blogBuddy

    5. w.bloggar

    6. Slug

    7. Radio UserLand

  3. Chapter 3 Hosted Blogging with Blogger

    1. How Blogger Works

    2. Requirements

    3. Your Blog, Quick Start

    4. Basic Blogger Settings

    5. Managing Your Posts

    6. Archiving in Detail

    7. Changing Your Account Profile

    8. Basic Use of Templates

    9. Self-Hosting

    10. Browser Shortcuts

    11. Blogger Buzz

    12. Group Blogs

    13. Removing a Blogger Blog

    14. Support

  4. Chapter 4 Desktop Blogging withRadio UserLand

    1. Installing Radio UserLand

    2. Welcome to Radio

    3. A Visual Tour of Using Radio

    4. Routing or Commenting on Content

    5. The Radio Menu

    6. Setting Your Radio Preferences

    7. Publishing Your Blog

    8. Stories Instead of Posts

    9. Adding Pictures to Your Posts

    10. Source Editing Your Radio Entry

  5. Chapter 5 Server Blogging with Movable Type

    1. Why Use a Server-Based Solution?

    2. Installing Movable Type

    3. Using Movable Type

    4. Creating a New Entry

    5. Comments

    6. Adding a New Author

    7. Uploading an Image

    8. Syndication

    9. The Future of Movable Type

  6. Chapter 6 Advanced Blogger

    1. Basics of Blogger Pro

    2. The Blogger Template

    3. Template Customization

    4. Customizing the Archive

    5. Adding Comments

    6. Incorporating Statistics

    7. Automated Blogrolling

    8. Adding Support for Syndication

    9. Integrating Blogger into an External Application Environment

    10. Exporting Blogger Data

  7. Chapter 7 Advanced Radio UserLand

    1. Radio, Frontier, and Manila

    2. Radio Techniques

    3. Backing Up Your Radio

    4. Themes, Templates, and Macros

    5. Understanding How Radio Works

    6. Important Radio URLs

    7. Upstreaming

    8. Online Resources for Advanced Users

  8. Chapter 8 Advanced Movable Type

    1. Changing the Look and Feel of Your Blog

    2. Blog Configuration

    3. Archiving Options

    4. Using the XML-RPC API

    5. Security Issues

    6. Tips and Tricks

    7. More Information

  9. Chapter 9 Minimalist Blogging with Blosxom

    1. Requirements

    2. Downloading

    3. Installing Blosxom

    4. Optional Configuration Directives

    5. Blogging

    6. Viewing Your Blog

    7. Editing and Deleting Entries

    8. Creating Another Weblog

    9. Syndicating with RSS

    10. Customizing and Styling

    11. Aggregating RSS with Blagg

    12. Running Blagg

    13. Third-Party Additions

  10. Chapter 10 Blogging Voices

  1. Colophon

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Product Details
Title:
Essential Blogging
By:
Cory Doctorow, Rael Dornfest, Scott Johnson, Shelley Powers, Benjamin Trott, Mena G. Trott
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Formats:
  • Print
  • Safari Books Online
Print Release:
August 2002
Pages:
260
Print ISBN:
978-0-596-00388-3
| ISBN 10:
0-596-00388-9
Customer Reviews
About the Authors

  1. Rael Dornfest

    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.

    View Rael Dornfest's full profile page.

  2. Shelley Powers

    Shelley Powers is an independent contractor, currently living in St. Louis, who specializes in technology architecture and software development. She's authored several computer books, including Developing ASP Components, Unix Power Tools 3rd edition, Essential Blogging, and Practical RDF. In addition, Shelley has also written several articles related primarily to web technology, many for O'Reilly. Shelley's web site network is at http://burningbird.net, and her weblog is Burningbird, at http://weblog.burningbird.net.

    View Shelley Powers's full profile page.

  3. Benjamin Trott

    is a programmer and the co-creator of Movable Type. With Mena Grabowski Trott, he is a partner and co-founder of Six Apart. He develops all of the backend code for Movable Type, contributes regularly to CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network), and has written for Perl.com. Benjamin likes cryptography and Serge Gainsbourg, and he dreams about universal wireless, so he can travel in France.

    View Benjamin Trott's full profile page.

Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animals on the cover of Essential Blogging are flat-headed cats. Also known as little Malayan red cats, flat-headed cats are found in tropical forests in Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, and Sumatra.

Obviously, the most distinctive feature found on the flat-headed cat is its head, which is flat and enhanced by its unusually small ears. Also, its eye sockets are completely encircled by bone, increasing the width of the head.

The flat-headed cat is nocturnal, and its diet consists mainly of fish and frogs. Because of its well-developed premolars and webbed feet, the flat-headed cat is highly adaptable to its fishing environment--more so than even the fishing cat. Sarah Sherman was the production editor and copyeditor, and Linley Dolby was the proofreader for Essential Blogging. Linley Dolby, Mary Anne Weeks Mayo, and Claire Cloutier provided quality control. Johnna Van Hoose Dinse wrote the index.

Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's ITC Garamond font.

Melanie Wang designed the interior layout, based on a series design by David Futato. This bookwas converted to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by ErikRay, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the bookwere produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. The tip and warning icons were drawn by Christopher Bing. This colophon was written by Sarah Sherman.

  • Book cover of Essential Blogging
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