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Publishing a Blog with Blogger: Visual QuickProject Guide (2nd Edition)
 
 
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Publishing a Blog with Blogger: Visual QuickProject Guide (2nd Edition) [Paperback]

Elizabeth Castro (Author)
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0321637526 978-0321637529 November 8, 2009 2
If you want to start blogging fast but don't want to get sidetracked by the details, then you need a Visual QuickProject Guide!
  • You don't need to know every feature-you just want to know how to get your project done.
  • Full-color illustrations show you how to perform each step of your project from start to finish.
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In Publishing a Blog with Blogger: Visual QuickProject Guide, best-selling author, Elizabeth Castro, shows users how to get started in the wonderful world of blogging. This book features large color illustrations and a minimum of verbiage to show brand-new Blogger users each step of the blogging process.  Castro first acquaints readers with the interface and standard options, then walks them through blog setup, creating their profile, posting email, adding pictures and audio. She also covers adding widgets to a blog; tools for tracking Web traffic and following subscriber traffic; using color and customizing layouts; understanding template tags and using tags to categorize content; combating spam; understanding balance and deciding how many blog posts to have on the homepage; privacy issues; posting photos; blogging mobile; and more.

This is ideal entry point to the blogosphere for anyone who wants to get started fast, but doesn't need to know every featurejust how to get the project done!

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About the Author

Elizabeth Castro has called herself a writer since the third grade. Although her bestselling guides to Web publishing, including all five editions of HTML for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, have earned her the official title of computer book author, Blogger gives her a long-desired venue for writing about everything besides computers. You can check out her blog at http://www.pigsgourdsandwikis.com/.

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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Peachpit Press; 2 edition (November 8, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321637526
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321637529
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.1 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #816,758 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I moved to Barcelona in 1987 to study bilingualism but found a job in a computer company instead. After managing the translation of many different computer programs (FreeHand, PageMaker, Illustrator, and more), I started a publishing company to translate and publish computer books in Spanish. In 1993, moved back to the US to write my own books. Started with Netscape, and then moved on to HTML, Perl, XML, Blogger, iPhoto, and most recently EPUB. You can find more personal info about me at my blog A Year in Barcelona (http://www.ayearinbarcelona.com). My regular blog is Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis (http://www.pigsgourdsandwikis.com). I spend a fair bit of time on Twitter (@lizcastro). And my full website is www.ElizabethCastro.com.

 

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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fast And Easy Way To Become a Blogger, April 28, 2005
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Diane Cipollo (Editor at BellaOnline.com) - See all my reviews
A blog or weblog is a great way to get started on the web and Blogger.com from Google is one of the most popular software for creating weblogs. In her book, Elizabeth Castro assumes that this may be your first web project as she walks you through the basics for creating a blog at Blogger.com.

First, she gives you an overview of Blogger.com, what the software does, and why she chose it as the subject for her book. After she introduces you to the Blogger Dashboard (the control panel where all the work is done), Castro shows you how to open a Blogger account, give your weblog a name and choose a template. The template does all the work for you when creating your weblog pages. All you need is the content that you want to publish and the template places everything in the correct spot on the webpage. Castro does a great job explaining all of this with step-by-step instructions and lots of illustrations.

Once you have posted your first weblog entry, Castro moves on to more advanced Blogger features such as working with the template tags to customize the look of your blog, how to control the members and comments features, how to post an entry by email and how to use Audioblogger to post an entry via the telephone.

Now that you have your weblog ready for the public, Castro discusses hosting your blog through Blogger's BlogSpot hosting or on your own server. Finally, she shows the many ways to publicize your blog including email and site feeds.

Elizabeth Castro has written many other Visual QuickStart Guide books for Peachpit Press.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars All you need to know to blog using Blogger, June 15, 2006
I have been writing on my blog using Blogger since 2002, so I am very familiar with almost all the options it provides you with to get your word out there in the blogosphere. Yet, I was able to pick up numerous new things when I read this book by Elizabeth Castro. It goes from the very basics that you'd need in order to get off the ground, all the way to incorporating audio into your blog, blogging via e-mail/telephone, customizing your blog, hosting it yourself and much, much more. It's incredible the amount of useful information that the author was able to pack in a little over 100 pages.

As an experienced Blogger user I highly recommend this title (and of course, I recommend Blogger as a blogging platform).
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Learn to Blog Really Fast, September 7, 2005
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I bought several books on blogging because I'm scheduled to teach a class about blogging at our library in late October. This little guide is the perfect teaching tool. Although it only covers one blog host, blogger.com, most of the information can be used with any host.
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