Teach Yourself Blogging

By Nat McBride, Jamie Cason, Dashka Slater

Blogging is the hottest Internet trend, and this book is the ideal resource for getting started. Unlike the majority of such guides, Teach Yourself Blogging doesn't focus on specific blogging... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071477977
• ISBN13: 9780071477970
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.7" x 0.5" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

A good basic look at a blog

For young people using the computer to create blogs, websites etc., seems almost intuitive, but for many of us we need a bit of a road map. This book is well organized and contains basic information along with a lot of pictures and illustrations. If you can't do a blog after reading this, then blogs are probably not your thing!

A solid introduction for most, with some nods to pros.

On Teach Yourself Blogging by McBride and Cason Some books, like blogs, go from inception to published review before hardly settling into my book bag. Just like stones skipped across the surface of a river, they just skip the surface and bounce on their way. This was a very quick read. I just checked it out within the last 24 hours, and now the review is rolling off the presses. But that isn't to say it was not without value. Published in 2006, and containing very specific references and suggestions regarding Blogger and TypePad. (What, no thoughts.com? Oh, right, the site was only an idea in Ben's mind at that time, like the twinkle in his eye Jason once was). Skimming through any such overly specific portions makes reading this book a bit quicker, as you focus in on the good parts. One such area for me personally, was chapter four. Here, two subsections bore upon a couple of my current research topics, driven by blog drafts I have in the wings. Section 4.2 covers the legal issues of blogging, including libel, copyrights, and incitement. Section 4.4 touches on the matter of using links in your blogs, which is the next help topic I have to write upon. Chapter five deals with images in a blog, yet another help topic I have in draft mode, and while it again can be too specific regarding the implementation of displaying graphics using the aforementioned blog services, the general remarks it makes contain good advice. Chapter six covers hosting your own blog, as in on that spare Linux box spinning drives in your study. Nice idea, but personally I will stick with [...] and enjoy it's coping with so many of the technical problems hosting your own blog can entail. Onto the next chapter. Chapter seven gets into some advanced editing techniques which really aren't available to those of us on thoughts, and other hosted websites. This is much more addressed to those hobbyists who host their own blogs, and are thus able to enjoy more access and latitude with their content. Video and audio blogging are covered briefly, features which [...] supports. This section had some relevance, then, but was for the most part a foreshadowing of what I will probably do with one of the five computer towers I still own -- strip it down to chassis and power supply before rebuilding it into some test bed of web programming experiments. Chapter eight, "reaching your audience," discusses something I'm in the midst of, promoting my writings by sharing them with friends, as well as others on the outside world, who consequently take a look at [...] for the first time. The other day, because of my post on celebrating Colombia's independence day, several people, including a Colombian living in Berlin, looked at thoughts.com, a place they had not seen before. My twitter account jumped up by several new followers too, from people who had caught my announcement of the article on it. Of course, now I am also looking at news feeds in Spanish, and trying to make sense