Blog On: Building Online Communities with Web Logs

by Todd Stauffer (conductor)

This volume introduces the reader to Weblog technology and aims to help him/her choose and implement a Weblog site. It presents in-depth, step-by-step instructions for using the three popular Weblog applications (open source, hosted and low-cost), with coverage of customising the Weblog.

Genres: Technology

361 pages, Paperback

First published October 14, 2002

Reviews

[Giovany Osorio]

I really enjoyed "Blog On" by Todd Stauffer. It's clear, practical, and super helpful for understanding everything you need to know about creating and maintaining a dynamic blog. I found it to be a great contribution to my creative process—definitely recommend it to anyone looking to get into blogging!

[Sarah]

Overall, this was a well-written book, and I think it was designed for someone who is unfamiliar with blogging. Given the publishing/copyright date (2002), I think it was out-of-date for me, but I will give it three stars for it's clarity. It does give the basics for HTML and CSS, neither of which I need, but I think that the blog software companies may not apply to today (I haven't looked them up yet.)

When I picked this up, I was hoping for something far more technical than a tutorial in how to set up a blog with a third party.

I did think that the chapter(s) on what to blog and grammar was useful.