Authors: Cory Doctorow, Rael Dornfest, J. Scott Johnson, Shelley Powers, Benjamin Trott, Mena Trott
Pages: 235
Publisher: O’Reily Media
ISBN: 0-596-00388-9
Essential Blogging is a book that informs you of the different types of blogging platforms that can be used as well as choosing the right blogging software to blog as a beginner.
The book begins with defining what blogging is and describes the different components of a blog such as the title, the subtitle, including pictures, and including links. Chapters 1 and 2 describes the different types of blogging platforms that a person can use to blog but touches on four blogging platforms (Blogger, Movable Type, RadioUserland, and Blosxom)throughout the book.
In Chapters 3-5, each blogging platform was discussed on how to use the blog platform, the requirements of using a blogging platform, how to managing your blog post, and installing a blog platform. Chapters 6-8 was a continuation of Chapters 3-5 as they discussed more advanced features of the blogging platform such as customizing your own template, incorporating statistics as part of your blog, and automating blogrolling.
In the last chapter, I truly enjoyed the section on Blogging Voices which gives advice about blogging from experienced and real world bloggers. I felt the main objective of the book was to focus on different blogging platforms other than WordPress and to take notice that no matter what blogging platform you use, it is important to know the components of successfully blogging.
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