Blog On : Building Online Communities with Web Logs

by Stauffer, Todd

• ISBN13: 9780072227123
• ISBN10: 0072227125
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-14
• Publisher: MCG

Summary

Weblogs -- or blogs -- are taking the Internet by storm! Now you can expand your site using message boards, mailing lists, and numerous other features to maintain and promote community with help from this easy-to-understand guide. Includes practical tips for making tweaks and improvements with HTML, Flash, Web images, and much more.

Author Biography

Todd Stauffer is the author or co-author of over 25 computer books, contributor to various technical magazines, a humor columnist and the creator of the “How to Do Everything” concept and first book (How to Do Everything with Your iMac) that launched Osborne’s How to Do Everything series.

More than 500,000 copies of books by Todd Stauffer have been sold and translated into Portuguese, Chinese, Spanish, French and Russian. His titles including the best-selling and award winning How to Do Everything with Your iMac (Osborne) now in its third edition, Mac Upgrade and Repair Bible, Small Business Office 2000 for Dummies and HTML By Example, and Using HTML.

Todd was the writer and co-host of the "Disk Doctors" television show on Knowledge TV. He's also hosted the “Peak Computing” radio show in Denver (with Dave Johnson) as well as other short pieces for radio and audio Web streaming. Before going freelance, Todd was editor of Texas Computing Magazine and an advertising writer. He graduated from Texas A&M University with a B.A. in English Literature. Todd is the publisher of www.mac-upgrade.com.

Table of Contents

Part I: What’s a Weblog and How Do I Get One?

1: Do I Need a Weblog?

2: Choosing Your Weblog Software and Server

Part II: Using Your Weblog

3: The Simple Blog

4: Using a Hosted Weblog

5: Setting Up and Using Greymatter

6: Setting Up and Using Movable Type

7: Setting Up and Using pMachine

Part III: Extending Your Weblog

8: Writing, Designing, and Tweaking Your Blog

9: Add-Ons for Your Weblog

Part IV: Publicity and Possibilities

10: Publicizing Your Weblog Site

11: Using Weblogs in Organizations

Appendix: Internet Resources