Essential Blogging

by Doctorow, Cory; Dornfest, Arel; Johnson, J. Scott; Powers, Shelley; Trott, Benjamin; Trott, Mena G.; Doctorow, Cory

ISBN13:
9780596003883
ISBN10:
0596003889
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 2002-09-01
Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.
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.
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.

Preface

Introduction to Blogging

(25)

The World of Blogging

(2)

Anatomy of a Blog

(7)

Anatomy of a Blog Post

(7)

Syndication

(2)

Blogging Tools

(7)

Desktop Clients

(8)

The Settings

(2)

BlogScript

(1)

BlogApp

(1)

blogBuddy

(1)

w.bloggar

(1)

Slug

(1)

Radio UserLand

(2)

Hosted Blogging with Blogger

(28)

How Blogger Works

(1)

Requirements

(1)

Your Blog, Quick Start

(4)

Basic Blogger Settings

(3)

Managing Your Posts

(4)

Archiving in Detail

(1)

Changing Your Account Profile

(1)

Basic Use of Templates

(4)

Self-Hosting

(5)

Browser Shortcuts

(1)

Blogger Buzz

(1)

Group Blogs

(2)

Removing a Blogger Blog

(1)

Support

(1)

Desktop Blogging with Radio UserLand

(34)

Installing Radio UserLand

(4)

Welcome to Radio

(1)

A Visual Tour of Using Radio

(8)

Routing or Commenting on Content

(2)

The Radio Menu

(1)

Setting Your Radio Preferences

(4)

Publishing Your Blog

(5)

Stories Instead of Posts

(3)

Adding Pictures to Your Posts

(4)

Source Editing Your Radio Entry

(2)

Server Blogging with Movable Type

(31)

Why Use a Server-Based Solution?

(2)

Installing Movable Type

(11)

Using Movable Type

110

(3)

Creating a New Entry

113

(4)

Comments

117

(2)

Adding a New Author

119

(2)

Uploading an Image

121

(1)

Syndication

122

(3)

The Future of Movable Type

125

(2)

Advanced Blogger

127

(30)

Basics of Blogger Pro

127

(6)

The Blogger Template

133

(3)

Template Customization

136

(4)

Customizing the Archive

140

(4)

Adding Comments

144

(4)

Incorporating Statistics

148

(3)

Automated Blogrolling

151

(2)

Adding Support for Syndication

153

(1)

Integrating Blogger into an External Application Environment

154

(1)

Exporting Blogger Data

155

(2)

Advanced Radio Userland

157

(24)

Radio, Frontier, and Manila

157

(1)

Radio Techniques

158

(7)

Backing Up Your Radio

165

(1)

Themes, Templates, and Macros

166

(9)

Understanding How Radio Works

175

(3)

Important Radio URLs

178

(1)

Upstreaming

179

(1)

Online Resources for Advanced Users

180

(1)

Advanced Movable Type

181

(23)

Changing the Look and Feel of Your Blog

181

(5)

Blog Configuration

186

(1)

Archiving Options

187

(7)

Using the XML-RPC API

194

(1)

Security Issues

195

(2)

Tips and Tricks

197

(6)

More Information

203

(1)

Minimalist Blogging with Blosxom

204

(19)

Requirements

204

(1)

Downloading

205

(1)

Installing Blosxom

205

(2)

Optional Configuration Directives

207

(1)

Blogging

207

(1)

Viewing Your Blog

208

(1)

Editing and Deleting Entries

209

(1)

Creating Another Weblog

210

(1)

Syndicating with RSS

211

(1)

Customizing and Styling

211

(5)

Aggregating RSS with Blagg

216

(3)

Running Blagg

219

(3)

Third-Party Additions

222

(1)

Blogging Voices

223

(12)

Index

235

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