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by Mena G. Trott, Benjamin Trott, Shelley Powers, Scott Johnson, Rael Dornfest, Cor
Essential Blogging
Essential Blogging
Preface
Audience for This Book
Structure of This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
Comments and Questions
Acknowledgments
Cory
Rael
Scott
Shelley
1. Introduction to Blogging
The World of Blogging
Can I Blog?
What Would I Talk About?
Anatomy of a Blog
Title
Subtitle
Suggest Link
Blogroll
Mailing Lists
Counters
Anatomy of a Blog Post
Title
The Picture
The Posting
The Quote
The Link
Discuss Link
Attribution
By-Line
Permanent Link
Syndication
Publishing a Feed
RSS Aggregators
Blogging Tools
Hosting
Price
Syndication
Local versus remote
Summary
2. Desktop Clients
The Settings
BlogScript
BlogApp
blogBuddy
w.bloggar
Slug
Radio UserLand
3. Hosted Blogging with Blogger
How Blogger Works
Requirements
Your Blog, Quick Start
Creating Your Blogger Account
Creating Your First Blog
Posting
Basic Blogger Settings
Title and Description
Formatting Basics
Blogger Archives
Managing Your Posts
Adding and Formatting Entries
Modifying Entries and Adding Images
Cleaning Up
Archiving in Detail
Generating New Archives
Troubleshooting
Changing Your Account Profile
Basic Use of Templates
Changing the Blogger Template
Incorporating a Non-Blogger Template
Self-Hosting
Why Self-Host?
Configuration
Troubleshooting
Browser Shortcuts
Blogger Buzz
Group Blogs
Removing a Blogger Blog
Support
4. Desktop Blogging withRadio UserLand
Installing Radio UserLand
Downloading
Installation
Windows
Macintosh
Registering
Welcome to Radio
Starting the Radio Application
The Desktop Website
A Visual Tour of Using Radio
Writing Original Content
Reading Your Weblog
Routing or Commenting on Content
RSS in Radio
Subscribing to a Feed
Commenting on a Feed Item
The Radio Menu
Setting Your Radio Preferences
Blog Title and Description
Blogdex or Navigator Links
Adding Titles to Your Posts
Not Using Internet Explorer?
Saving Without Publishing
Publishing Your Blog
Publishing to radio.weblogs.com
Publishing to Your Own Site via FTP
Checking Publishing Status with Events
Republishing Your Entire Blog
Stories Instead of Posts
Creating Stories
Editing Stories
Limitations
Adding Pictures to Your Posts
Pasting from Internet Explorer
Adding Pictures by Uploading Files
Notes on Upstreaming Files
Limitations on Upstreaming Files
Using the MyPictures Tool
Source Editing Your Radio Entry
Updating Radio.root
5. Server Blogging with Movable Type
Why Use a Server-Based Solution?
Independence from a Central Server
Ability to Store Your Data Behind a Firewall
Control over Your Data
Installing Movable Type
Requirements
Downloading
Locating Perl
Installation Directories
The location of the application
The location of the Movable Type database
The location of your blog directories
Configuring
Installing Files
Connecting to your web server
Uploading the application
Creating your database directory
Creating your blog directories
Required and Optional Perl Modules
Initializing
Troubleshooting
Using Movable Type
Logging In
Configuring Your Blog
Creating a New Entry
Comments
Adding a New Author
Uploading an Image
Syndication
The Future of Movable Type
6. Advanced Blogger
Basics of Blogger Pro
Spellchecking
Posting via Email
Future and Draft Posting
Image Uploads
The Blogger Template
The Template Tags
The Template View
Template Customization
Adding a Blogroll
Adding a Blogger Pro Title
Customizing the Archive
Creating a Custom Archive Page
Changing the Location of the Archive Files
Adding Comments
Incorporating Statistics
Automated Blogrolling
Adding Support for Syndication
Integrating Blogger into an External Application Environment
Exporting Blogger Data
7. Advanced Radio UserLand
Radio, Frontier, and Manila
Radio Techniques
Shortcuts
Automatic shortcuts
Creating your own shortcuts
Using Mail-to-Weblog to Post to Your Weblog
Categories
Enabling categories
Creating your own categories
Assigning posts to categories
Advanced categories
Using the Blogger API in Radio
Backing Up Your Radio
Backing Up All Data on Windows
Backing Up all Data on the Mac
Themes, Templates, and Macros
Using Existing Themes
Customizing Templates with Macros
Useful Macros
Saving Your Customizations
Enabling Comments
Listing Recent Posts
Additional Macros
Creating and Downloading Themes
Understanding How Radio Works
Overall Content Management System
Object Database
Scripting Language
Network Engine
RSS and Content Syndication
Logical, Consistent, Permanent URL Structuring
Web Services, SOAP, and XML-RPC
Open Architecture
Important Radio URLs
Upstreaming
Online Resources for Advanced Users
8. Advanced Movable Type
Changing the Look and Feel of Your Blog
Modifying Default Templates
Your list of links
Public display of categorization
Movable Type Tags
Advanced Template Manipulation
Blog Configuration
Archiving Options
Archiving by Category
Multiple Archive Templates
Archive File Templates
Date hierarchy
Categorized individual entries
Usage of existing syntax
Archiving by Calendar
Using the XML-RPC API
Security Issues
Web Server Security
Private Blogs
Tips and Tricks
Displaying a Random Entry
Displaying the Last N Nonconsecutive Days of Entries
Blog Locally, Publish Globally
Customizing the Entry-Editing Screen
Multiple Blogs, One Movable Type Installation
Displaying Entries on Other Pages
More Information
9. Minimalist Blogging with Blosxom
Requirements
Downloading
Installing Blosxom
Optional Configuration Directives
Blogging
Viewing Your Blog
The Archives
Editing and Deleting Entries
Creating Another Weblog
Syndicating with RSS
Customizing and Styling
Aggregating RSS with Blagg
Requirements
Downloading
Installing Blagg
Configuring
Running Blagg
Interactive Blagging
Automatic Blagging
Blagging to Other Blogs
Under the Hood
Third-Party Additions
10. Blogging Voices
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