Book Review: "Publishing a Blog with Blogger"

By Elizabeth Castro (Berkeley,CA: Peachpit Press, Visual QuickProject Guide, 2005, 127 pgs.)

This is the most complete guide on Blogger that I have found so far. It starts at the beginning and takes you through how to start a blog, how to write a post, how to use the editor, post pictures and format a new Blogger blog.

It is written in an easy and interesting style. Visual examples are given on each page to help explain every exercise.

Then the book covers more advanced tasks of publishing through email, audioblogging, and customizing and personalizing your site. Followed by chapters on setting up and editing a profile page, the comments settings, and formatting a team blog.

There is a whole chapter on how to move your site and host it on your own domain. The author closes out the book with suggestions on how to publicize your blog. Then there is a valuable appendix at the end that lists all the template tags used by the Blogger program. This makes it possible for the more advanced blogger to further customize the template and blog.

A Valuable book that everyone using the Blogger program should have. List price is only $12.99. *Top

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