Publishing a Blog with Blogger Visual QuickProject Guide

Smart, to-the-point guide shows readers how to start blogging fast--without getting sidetracked by the details!--No nonsense, focused approach makes this guide the perfect entry point for readers new to the world of blogging.-Large color illustrations make gettting up and running a breeze--no experience required!-Author of best-selling HTML: Visual QuickStart Guide taps into her expertise to focus on the basics, guiding readers through the process of creating their very first blog. Google's Blogger is the leading free blogging software. In Publishing a Blog with, best-selling author, Elizabeth Castro, shows Blogger: Visual QuickProject Guide 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 feature--just how to get the project done!

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/.