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David Busch's Quick Snap Guide to Photoblogging with WordPress: An Instant Start-Up Manual for Creating and Promoting Your Own Photoblog

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If you are not myopic before starting at page 1 of this book, then any reader will be so shortly thereafter. Full screen's worth of information from the WordPress dashboard are repeatedly reproduced as images barely 2 inches in height. No full photograph reproduced in the book is any more than the same 2 inch "standard" size. (Only the chapter title pages will give you any relief - there the typography is huge; four or five words fill a full page ....) As a result, it's very hard to judge how a particular WordPress Theme and/or pictorial layout will actually look based upon the examples covered in the book. Moreover, there's no coverage dedicated to slideshows. The word "Slideshow" doesn't even appear in the index. Altogether very disappointing.

There appears to be a great deal of good information hiding in this book, but you will never see it. As another reviewer on this site has stated, this is one of the most poorly laid out books I've encountered. The illustrations are critical to understanding what the author is trying to teach, but they are so small that you cannot see them even with a magnifying glass. On one page, five screenshots occupy a page measuring 7.5 x 9". Even the largest screen shots measure only 3x4", and they are the exception. This is a real disappointment.

Photoblogging with WordPress: An Instant Start-Up Manual for Creating and Promoting Your Own Photoblog covers all the basics of a free photoblog website, explaining its options, purposes, how to use tools, and using photos in two- and four-page spreads with step-by-step explanations showing results after using each feature. The result is a 'must' for any new to WordPress who want to take quick and easy advantage of its many advanced features.