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Blogging has moved rapidly from being a craze to become a core feature of the Internet?from individuals sharing their thoughts with the world via online diaries, through fans talking about their favorite sports teams or music, right up to serious business minds discussing industry futures.

And that includes you, right? If you haven?t got a blog already, you want to start one, and want to find out how. If you have already got one, you want to know how to customize it, and make it look cooler than everybody else?s. In either case, this is the ideal book for you.

In this book, a team of renowned web designers take you through the ins and outs of putting together great blogs. They waste no time harking on about the philosophy of blogs, or the community behind them. Instead, they get straight to the practical details, showing how to set up a basic blog in some of the world?s most popular blogging engines ? Movable Type, ExpressionEngine, WordPress, and Textpattern. With your blog set up, they then show you how to build great looking, usable layouts for your blog. The last chapter even shows you how to build your very own PHP/MySQL-based blog engine!

With this book in hand, you?ll have found your way to blog heaven in no time!

About the Author

David Powers is an Adobe Community Expert for Dreamweaver and author of a series of highly successful books on PHP, including PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy (friends of ED, ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-731-6) and Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8 (friends of ED, ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-569-5). As a professional writer, he has been involved in electronic media for more than 30 years, first with BBC radio and television and more recently with the Internet. His clear writing style is valued not only in the English-speaking world; several of his books have been translated into Spanish and Polish.

What started as a mild interest in computing was transformed almost overnight into a passion, when David was posted to Japan in 1987 as BBC correspondent in Tokyo. With no corporate IT department just down the hallway, he was forced to learn how to fix everything himself. When not tinkering with the innards of his computer, he was reporting for BBC TV and radio on the rise and collapse of the Japanese bubble economy. Since leaving the BBC to work independently, he has built up an online bilingual database of economic and political analysis for Japanese clients of an international consultancy.

When not pounding the keyboard writing books or dreaming of new ways of using PHP and other programming languages, David enjoys nothing better than visiting his favorite sushi restaurant. He has also translated several plays from Japanese.

Phil Sherry is a self-taught web developer during the day in Liverpool, and a freelance web anarchist for the remaining hours of the day. With lingering bad memories of having to use dial-up connection for years, he still does his best to design sites for the lowest common denominator. That means lower resolutions too, as well as people with slower machines (let’s not mention those poor Windows users).

Working with Jake Smith, several rock gods have had their web presence greatly enhanced over the years, including Andy Rourke, the ex-bass player from The Smiths. Phil has previously worked on several friends of ED books, and also beta tested several key Adobe products. A self-confessed geek, Phil can usually be found in a room full of computers, surrounded by screens of ASCII.

Andy is an internationally renowned web designer, developer and weblog author based in Brighton, England. Andy specializes in building attractive, accessible, and standards complaint web solutions. Andy enjoys writing about web techniques for sites such as digital-web.com and his work has been featured in numerous magazines, books, and websites around the world.

Simon is Lead Web Developer at Agenzia (www.agenzia.co.uk), and has worked on numerous web projects for record labels, high-profile recording artists, leading visual artists and illustrators, including The Libertines, Black Convoy, and Project Facade. Simon also oversees a production line of business, community and voluntary sector websites, and passionately ensures everything he builds is accessible, usable, and complies with current web standards. Simon regularly reviews CSS-based websites for Stylegala, and does his best to keep his highly popular blog (www.collylogic.com) updated with noise about web standards, music, film, travels, and more web standards.

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Richard Rutter lives and works in Brighton, UK. He is Production Director for the web consultancy Clearleft (www.clearleft.com).

Richard has been designing and developing websites for nigh on ten years. Early in 2003, he built his first blogging engine, which still powers his weblog Clagnut (www.clagnut.com), in which he harps on about accessibility, web standards, and mountain biking.


Chris is a Web Developer and Mac enthusiast living in Central Kentucky USA. He is a hacker on the WordPress Project and K2, the successor to the Open Source Template Kubrick. Recently he has begun working with the Apache Software Foundation.

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One of the hottest business models out right now is creating websites that you can sell for quick cash. Think about the benefit of this business model - You can create a website in a couple of hours with a minimum investment of money, and you can make a profit of $50 - $300 or more in a few days! However, it’s not quite that simple. You can’t just put up any old website and expect for someone to buy. Flipping websites can be easy, but it can also be very hard! Doing what everyone else is doing right now will make trying to sell your websites more difficult than it needs to be!

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A guide to using cpanel and Wordpress to develop a website.

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WordPress is a free blogging platform available to everyone. WordPress has two components, one is a free, Web-based blog-hosting service called WordPress.com. The other is WordPress.org, which provides users with software to run a more feature-rich version of the blogging tool on their own servers.

Both services offer a very easy way to blog, with administrative options to work collaboratively on one or several blogs using the same log-in. Bloggers can write their posts on a WYSIWYG editor, or switch over to a code view on the fly.

This is a great introduction to WordPress. As simple as WordPress is to administer, you will still need hand holding. Before this there has not been a book on WordPress that got you on your way.

This book assumes no blogging or technical background and does a good job of explaining the basics.

For the non-technical the hosted version of WordPress is a great place to begin. For those needing more there are the install-it-yourself versions. You will find everything you need in regards to hosting companies that offer 1 click installs of the regular version WordPress.

Once you’re set up, you’ll be so educated about WordPress that you’ll not only be blogging on the most democratic platform but also involved with one of the most friendly, intelligent and devoted open source communities in the world. Soon you’ll be customizing your blog to the bliss you’ll be following for the rest of your life.

Not sure where to start blogging? Stuck fiddling around with your blog’s limitations? Interested in improving the world through a remarkable blogging platform? Then do yourself a big favor and invest in this book.

Highly recommended to anybody who needs to run a blog or to budding web designers who would like to extend their toolkit.

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WordPress is an open-source personal publishing platform that is easy to use, flexible, and highly customizable. Although used primarily for publishing blogs, WordPress can easily be used to create and maintain complete Web sites. Taking the average blogger further than blogspot can, WordPress allows bloggers to create more complicated sites with their open-source technology, rather than blogger which is limited by HTML changes to their templates. This easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide shows readers how to install, use, and customize WordPress to get the most from the software. Includes tips that explain why certain techniques are better than others, how to watch for potential problems, and where readers can find more information. As always, the Visual QuickStart Guide format offers task-based instruction, visual aids and plenty of tips to guide the reader along.

About the Author

Maria Langer is the author of over 70 computer books, including bestselling Visual QuickStart Guides for Mac OS X, Microsoft Excel, and the previous edition of WordPress. Using the Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe software she writes about, she creates the documents she needs to run her writing and helicopter tour and charter businesses. When she’s not writing, Maria is probably touring Arizona by helicopter or horseback or teaching her parrot how to make animal noises. Visit Maria on the Web at www.marialanger.com.

Miraz Jordan is based in Wellington, New Zealand, where she writes for, on and about technology. Miraz is the author of a book, websites and many articles about the Internet for community groups, and an author of the previous edition of the WordPress VQS. She is an organizer of Webstock, a conference featuring world-class speakers on best practice for the Web. Her site, MacTips.info, contains thousands of tips, articles, and tutorials for using both the Mac and the Internet.

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Everybody’s doing it! And while that logic never got far with your mother, it’s a fine reason to start blogging, especially if you have a business to build or a cause to promote. Well-run blogs do more than offer an outlet for your thoughts. They’ve actually influenced everything from a company’s image to the outcome of a local election.

Because the blogosphere is pretty crowded, it’s a good idea to find out a bit about the anatomy of a blog, what makes a good one, and what it takes to keep one going before you dive right in and start sharing with the world. Blogging For Dummies, 2nd Edition gives you all the basics so you can get a good start. And if you’ve been around the blog a few times and want to advance to the next level, Blogging For Dummies, 2nd Edition even takes a look at podcasting and videoblogging.

You’ll find out how to:

• Make your blog stand out in a crowd, build an audience, and even make it pay
• Choose the best software options, boost readership, and handle comments
• Generate revenue from your blog with ads and sponsorships
• Protect your privacy and your job
• Deal with spam and the inappropriate comments from that guy who posts several times a day
• Find your niche
• Attract and keep readers
• Use your blog to promote your business, cause, or organization
• Add audio, video, cool widgets, and more

Ready? Get Blogging for Dummies and let’s get started!

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Express yourself, build your business, or promote a cause

Make your blog stand out in a crowd, build an audience, and even make it pay

Whether you’re just finding out about blogs or you’ve been blogging for a while and are curious about podcasting or videoblogging, you can find answers in this book! Get the scoop on software options and how to boost readership, handle comments, make money with ads and sponsorships, add audio or video, and much more.

Discover how to:

• Create and maintain a blog that draws readers

• Protect your privacy and your job

• Deal with spam and inappropriate comments

• Find your niche

• Use your blog to promote your business

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Inspiring Web Design at a Glance

The Web Designer’s Idea Book includes more than 700 websites arranged thematically, so you can find inspiration for layout, color, style and more. Author Patrick McNeil has cataloged more than 20,000 sites on his website, and showcased in this book are the very best examples.

Sites are organized by color, design style, type, theme, element and structure. It’s easy to use and reference again and again, whether you’re talking with a co-worker or discussing website design options with a client. As a handy desk reference for design layout, color and style, this book is a must-have for starting new projects.

About the Author

His diverse interests have merged web technology and design, resulting in work that touches everything from high design to hard-core programming. Ultimately, his love for design, inspiration, and sharing knowledge has fueled his passion for running Design Meltdown, where he has cataloged and observed web design trends over the last few years. It is this passion that led to the creation of this book.

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Turn Your Blog Into Big Bucks

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Blogs are one of the internet’s fastest-growing phenomena-and one of the best and easiest ways to make money online. Learn how to choose a topic, start a blog and attract thousands of avid readers. Then use your blog to generate income from advertisers, promotions, affiliate links and other techniques-all from your own home. . .

We’ll reveal how to:

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• Attract visitors and hold their interest.
• Entice advertisers to promote their products on your blog.
• Earn an affiliate fee when your visitors shop at some of the most popular websites.
• Promote your blog and get listed on top blog search engines

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Successful bloggers reveal their expert strategies for maximizing profits. Pick up this book and get started on the road to riches-without leaving your desk!.

About the Author

McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide

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WordPress Foundations 2.7 is your essential guide to WordPress. All you need to know to be online in minutes. A quick and easy guide to get you started right now. WordPress Foundations covers from A to Z (with no fluff or filler) everything you need to get started using WordPress today. I’ll show you the exact steps you need to know to get you going. You will not get lost. Learn how to use WordPress, and get your site up in minutes. This is a no-nonsense guide to WordPress. Straight to the point, no “techie talk”, and no previous experience required. You will NOT feel confused, or overwhelmed. This book has been created to be as EASY to understand as possible. It doesn’t matter if you want to setup a personal blog, keep in touch with family and friends, or setup a small business, this book will teach you everything you need to know.