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WordPress 2 (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Maria Langer, Miraz Jordan

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 21 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

Keep Looking 1 out of 5 stars.
1 of 2 people found this review helpful.

I agree with many of the other reviews that I have seen here. I usually don't right a review and I usually give most tech books the benefit of the doubt. I gave up on this book in Chapter 6. The first 5 chapters are nothing more than going through every page of Worpress admin and reading the input field. With no real explanation of what items do. I have been looking for a worpress book for a while and this was the first one I came across I was very disappointed. With that being said I will keep looking for a good wordpress book but in the mean time I will probably be better off just getting a good MySQL + PHP book.

Editorial Review:

WordPress is an open-source personal publishing platform that is easy to use, flexible, and highly customizable. Although used primarily for publishing blogs, WordPress can easily be used to create and maintain complete Web sites.

Taking the average blogger further than blogspot can, WordPress allows bloggers to create more complicated sites with their open-source technology, rather than blogger which is limited by HTML changes to their templates.

This easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide shows you how to install, use, and customize WordPress to get the most from the software. Includes tips that explain why certain techniques are better than others, how to watch for potential problems, and where readers can find more information.

Clear Blogging: How People Blogging Are Changing the World and How You Can Join Them

Bob Walsh

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Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Almost overnight, blogging has become a social, political, and business force to be reckoned with. Your fellow students, workers, and competitors are joining the blogosphereand making money, influencing elections, getting hired, growing market share, and having funto the tune of 8,000 new bloggers a day.

Clear Blogging sets out to answer in nontechnical terms what blogging has to offer and why and how you should blog. If youve never read a blog, but you keep hearing that term on the news, Clear Blogging will show you why blogging has shaken up mainstream media, and how a blogger can end up on CNN. If youre just starting to read blogs, Clear Blogging is your native guide to the blogosphere, covering how to get the best, most interesting information with the least amount of time and effort. The main course of Clear Blogging shows what you stand to gain from blogging, and how you can go from your first post to being welcomed aboard the blogospheres A-list.

Whether youre already blogging or youre considering it, youll want to get a copy of this book because it

• Covers how blogging can improve your job prospects, professional practice, business revenue, company reputation, and the world you live in
• Includes over 50 interviews with successful bloggers who are influencing products, policy makers, potential employers, and millions of the general publicall while earning an online reputation and real profits
• Shows you how to apply the best practices of news gathering to build your blogs reputation and brand
• Is heavy on the specific benefits of blogging and light on the technological aspects

WordPress Foundations 2.7: Your Simple Step-by-Step Guide To WordPress

Jason Annas

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Exactly what I was looking for! 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

Let me tell you a little bit about myself. I run a small local business, and in that business I sell flowers, as well as other items. My main business is flowers. We cover Prom's, Wedding's, Holiday's, and more.

I'm taking a small business class right now, and the teacher recommends having a blog, and he also recommends using wordpress (I currently have a regular webpage I paid about 500 dollars to get made and has 5 pages).

I know nothing about any of this technical stuff. So I went to amazon and typed in wordpress, and saw there was a dummies book on it and bought it right away.

When the book arrived, I was excited, I read it, and read it, and read it. I got some good ideas, but I was confused with where to start. I think that book is more for the technical crowd than any other kind of book. I kept getting confused, I didn't know what to do or where to go. I also didn't understand half of what was being said (but again I'm not a tech person, I'm a flower person).

After going through most of the book, I still did not have my blog online. I was going to pay someone to set up a blog for me and let me work on it from there when someone recommended this book to me.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to get it. The huge dummies book was to much for me, but the price was pretty low so I grabbed it.

To my surprise, this book was exactly what I needed. The book is basically a step by step book. It starts out with coming up with a name, then signing up with wordpress, or installing it yourself, and walks you through the whole process. It also shows how to fight spam, and how to keep your blog up to date.

It covers adding pictures, movies, how to format the text and more.

I have never built a website before. The website I had I never updated (didn't know how), this book explained it to me very plainly.

I'm very glad I got this book, if this book didn't work I was going to just pay someone to do this for me, and have them update it once a week. I'm glad that is no longer a problem for me.

I also bought another book called ProBlogger. It teaches you how to make money with your blog, and I'm sure that will help me greatly in the future.

Once I get used to blogging and wordpress, I'm sure the other book can help me, but right now I just cannot use it, and this little book is a lifesaver.

My favorite part about this book was, it did not slow me down with stuff I didn't need to know. This book will not make you a wordpress master, but it will help you get your blog up and online right away. (That's what counts right?)

This version also covers the new version, the other books showed older versions of the platform which also made things confusing.

I'm just so glad I finally have this done, I can be online and design my own website. It's so cool and empowering. I already got some posters printed out, and I cant wait to start showing off my new blog! I'm a blogger now! Yes!

Editorial Review:

WordPress Foundations 2.7 is your essential guide to WordPress. All you need to know to be online in minutes. A quick and easy guide to get you started right now. WordPress Foundations covers from A to Z (with no fluff or filler) everything you need to get started using WordPress today. I'll show you the exact steps you need to know to get you going. You will not get lost. Learn how to use WordPress, and get your site up in minutes. This is a no-nonsense guide to WordPress. Straight to the point, no "techie talk", and no previous experience required. You will NOT feel confused, or overwhelmed. This book has been created to be as EASY to understand as possible. It doesn't matter if you want to setup a personal blog, keep in touch with family and friends, or setup a small business, this book will teach you everything you need to know.

Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics

Jerome Armstrong, Markos Moulitsas

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 95 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Nice counterpoint to professional blowhards 4 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

I am not the biggest fan of either of the author's websites. MyDD puts me to sleep and DailyKos is too screechy.

So I did not immediately run out to buy this book when it was released.

My mistake.

This is a great book for those who are frustrated with the status quo of American politics. I don't believe the netroots alone will save the Republic (and neither do they, I bet) but I believe that the philosophy outlined in this book -- a people-based philosophy -- is a step in the right direction.

This is a very quick read, so it's easily worth the purchase or loan.

Editorial Review:

Crashing the Gate is a shot across the bow at the political establishment in Washington, DC and a call to re-democratize politics in America. This book lays bare, with passion and precision, how ineffective, incompetent, and antiquated the Democratic Party establishment has become, and how it has failed to adapt and respond to new realities and challenges. The authors save their sharpest knives to go for the jugular in their critique of Republican ideologues who are now running, and ruining, our country. Written by two of the most popular political bloggers in America, the book hails the new movement of the netroots, the grassroots, the unorthodox labor unions, the maverick big donors that is the antidote to old-school politics as usual. Fueled by advances in technology and a hunger for a more authentic democracy, this broad-based movement is changing the way political campaigns are waged and managed. A must-read book for anyone with an interest in the future of American democracy.

WordPress Foundations

Jason Annas

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

My Little Lifesaver 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

I actually bought the 2.7 book which covers the new one, but that book has been a life saver for me. I was tired of reading articles online, trying to go through the help file, and I bought a few other blogging books, but none of them actually showed me how to get my blog up and online.

This book did that for me, and for that I will be eternally grateful.

The book is not full of stuff I do not need (this means it is not a reference book), I think the whole point of the book is to get you online, and used to using the wordpress interface. It does this greatly!

I actually have pages highlighted, pages turned over, and I reference it most every time I start to write a new post (which is very fun!)

The other reviewer here mentions that the book is full of grammar issues (I did not notice any in my 2.7 book, but then again, I'm not a grammar nut)

Also, The books I bought to learn how to blog were all published very recently, and most all of them showed different pictures of the same thing. I think this platform must change rapidly, and I think its hard for the authors to keep up.

I bought the dummies book and it uses a very old version, and it is night and day compared to the new 2.7 interface (which the new book by Jason covers). I think this is just something we all have to deal with.

I was confused when reading the older books and trying to apply them to my blog. I was wanting to give up, nothing was the same.

Luckily I found this wonderful gem and got online and blogging right away.

I recommend buying this book (well the new version) and I also recommend checking out ProBlogger, which will teach you some nifty ideas on how to start making money with your blog.

If you want a reference guide to wordpress, this is not your book. If you want to get online, and you have never been online before, you will not be happier.

Editorial Review:

WordPress Foundations is your essential guide to WordPress. All you need to know to be online in minutes. A quick and easy guide to get you started right now. WordPress Foundations covers from A to Z (with no fluff or filler) everything you need to get started using WordPress today. I'll show you the exact steps you need to know to get you going. You will not get lost. Learn how to use WordPress, and get your site up in minutes. This is a no-nonsense guide to WordPress. Straight to the point, no "techie talk", and no previous experience required. You will NOT feel confused, or overwhelmed. This book has been created to be as EASY to understand as possible. It doesn't matter if you want to setup a personal blog, keep in touch with family and friends, or setup a small business, this book will teach you everything you need to know.

The Secret Power of Blogging: How to Promote and Market Your Business, Organization, or Cause With Free Blogs

Bruce C. Brown

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Total reviews: 8 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Blog is short for Weblog. A Weblog is a journal (or type of newsletter) that is updated often and intended for the general public. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site owner. In July 2006, the Pew Internet & American Life Project estimated that the U.S. "blog population has grown to about 12 million Americans," some 8% of U.S. Internet users. The number of U.S. blog readers was estimated at 57 million (39% of the U.S. online population). If you have a product, service, brand, or cause that you want to market inexpensively online to the world, you need to look into starting a blog. It is an ideal marketing vehicle. You can use it to share your expertise, grow market share, spread your message, and establish yourself as an expert in your field for virtually no cost. A blog helps your site to rank higher in the search engines because Google and other search engines provide references to blogs and their content. Tiny one-person part-time businesses and mega companies like Microsoft, Apple, Nike, General Motors, Amazon.com, and Yahoo! use blogs as well as. Most Fortune 1000 firms are using responsible blog marketing as well as advertising on blogs for one simple reason: it works! It generates profits immediately and consistently! In addition, many blogs earn additional revenue by selling advertising space on their niche-targeted blog.

The Blog of War: Front-Line Dispatches from Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan

Matthew Currier Burden

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Editorial Review:

Matthew Currier Burden founded www.blackfive.net, one of the most popular military blogs on the Internet. His blog began as an homage to a friend killed on duty in Iraq and quickly became a source of information about what was really happening in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In The Blog of War Burden presents selections from some of the best of the military blogs, the purest account of the many voices of this war. This is the first real-time history of a war, a history written even as the war continues. It offers a glimpse into the full range of military experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq, from the decision to enlist right through to homecoming. There are powerful stories of soldiers in combat, touching reflections on helping local victims of terror and war, pulse-racing accounts of med-evac units and hospitals, and heartbreaking chronicles of spouses who must cope when a loved one has paid the ultimate price. The Blog of War provides an uncensored, intimate, and authentic version of life in the war zone. Dozens of voices come together in a wartime choir that conveys better than any second-hand account possibly can what it is like to serve on the front lines.

Secrets of Videoblogging (Secrets of...)

Michael Verdi, Ryanne Hodson, Diana Weynand, Shirley Craig

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Here’s the perfect introduction to the art of the videoblog, or vlog,
whatever your subject. Filled with both technical and creative tips, this
fun, fast, full-color guide provides everything you need to get started
vlogging. You’ll learn:

• How to find and keep track of your favorite videoblogs
• How to create your own vlog under Windows or Mac OS X
• Where to find free vlog-hosting services
• Tips on lighting, shooting, sound, and video compression for vlogs
• Where to download free, legal music for your vlog
• How to build an audience with RSS feeds
• And many more insider secrets

Vlogging pioneers Michael Verdi and Ryanne Hodson are co-founders of NO
DE101, an international network of videoblog classrooms, and FreeVlog.org,
NO DE101’s online equivalent. Verdi also vlogs at www.michaelverdi.com,
while Hodson produces vlogs at http://ryanedit.blogspot.com and
http://revlog.blogspot.com.

Video training pioneers Diana Weynand and Shirley Craig are co-owners of
Weynand Training International, an Apple Authorized Training Center that
provides training services to the entertainment industry. They vlog at
www.weynand.blogspot.com.

Blogwild!: A Guide for Small Business Blogging

Andy Wibbels

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Total reviews: 52 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Good start for blogging novices willing to use TypePad 3 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

This short book is a very clear and easy read; just about right for blogging novices seeking a quick introduction to the basics. The pages are written in "sound bites" for the busy non-tech professional, in lucid language, with no padding. You get just the facts needed to get your business blog set up, from idea to reality, in a reading that should not take more than one afternoon.

My major beef with the book: the author's single-minded focus on Typepad as a blogging platform. What about Blogger and Word Press? Exactly *half* of this book reads like a how-to manual for TypePad.

Although I understand this is the author's choice and probably the blogging platform he is most comfortable with, nowhere on the jacket blurb is TypePad mentioned. I would like to have known this if I was buying the book! What if I already had the start of a WordPress blog and wanted to know how to develop it? Half this book, short enough already, would be wasted cash for me. I find this a bit disingenuous on the part of the publisher.

I would recommend this book only if the blogger-to-be wanted a step-by-step description of starting a blog from *scratch* on Typepad.

For people already owning a blog, the book is just a bit too remedial. For the price, there are other books for the beginning blogger that should prove more useful and take one beyond the baby steps offered here.

Editorial Review:

Go Blogwild with veteran blogger and blog consultant Andy Wibbels and learn how to use blogs to improve your business and your bottom line. By harnessing the power of the Internet's most explosive marketing tool you can:

* Create buzz for your products and services
* Enrich your clients' understanding of your business
* Communicate with your team
* Reach out to your customers
* Test drive new ideas
* Bring your business to the global marketplace
* Open a backdoor to the press

Don't be intimidated. Go blogwild.