Book Description
A quick, easy-to-understand, and practical introduction to the process - and art - of creating and maintaining an online Web log.
Blogging - maintaining a Web log - is taking the Web by storm.
Blogs, a regularly updated Web page or portion of a Web page, can be used as a personal diary, a public forum, or to add value and content to business sites.
Author is a long-time blogger known for her ability to connect with beginning-level readers. Blogging has taken the Web by storm, and now everyone wants to do it. The term blog comes from the combining of the words Web and log. In simple terms, a blog is any regularly updated Web page or portion of a Web page. But blogs can be much more. They can function as a personal diary, a public forum, and even used to keep business-related sites fresh. Blogging itself doesnt require a specific software program, but there are a variety of such programs available to make the act of creating a Web log so simple that one doesnt really need to know a thing about Web design or development. Online Web log publishing tools, such as Blogger, make it very easy for beginners to get up-and-running with a Web log in no time. The popularity and ease of use that Blogger embodies makes it a perfect starting place to teach themselves all about blogging. As readers become more adept with Blogger, theyll naturally become interested in trying out other programs, as well as more advanced tools and techniques. If they already have some skills in HTML and Web design, they can really take blogging to the next level by following the guidelines in Sams Teach Yourself Blogging in 24 Hours.
Molly E. Holzschlag is an author, instructor, and designer who brings her irrepressible enthusiasm for Web design to books, classrooms, and Web sites. In addition to the numerous books she has authored - including Special Edition Using HTML and XHTML from Que Publishing - she writes the popular monthly column, "Integrated Design," for Web Technologies magazine.
About the Author
Molly E. Holzschlag is an author, instructor, and designer who brings her irrepressible enthusiasm for Web design to books, classrooms, and Web sites. In addition to the numerous books she has authored -- including Special Edition Using HTML and XHTMLWeb Techniques magazine.