Blogger Essential Training

Blogger Essential Training with Molly E. Holzschlag is a movie-based workshop for audiences new to blogging and to the newly revamped Blogger weblog service, a free service from Google. Begin by learning what blogs are and the various ways they can be used. You'll quickly get into setting up your weblog, adding specialty features such as comment systems and news-feeds, working with and customizing templates, and even creating team blogs and audio blogs. The included exercise files, articles, and resources enhance the title, allowing you to follow along with the movies and learn at your own pace.

Table of contents

Introduction

• welcome
  

1. Preparing to Blog

• what's a blog, really?
  
• gathering your thoughts
  

2. Setting Up Your Account

• creating your account
  
• naming your blog
  
• choosing a template
  

3. Switching to a Host Server

• upgrading to FTP
  
• adding the FTP information
• republishing your blog
  

4. Determining Your Blog's Settings

• setting appropriate time and date
  
• document encoding and alternate languages
  
• line breaks, fields and the post template
  

5. Setting Up Blogger Comments

• understanding comments
  
• determining who can comment on your blog
  
• configuring comment notification

6. All About Archives

• exploring archives and archive frequency
  
• enabling post pages
  
• setting the archive location
  

7. Syndication Feeds and Email Features

• the site feed feature and atom syndication
  
• considering short vs. long feeds
  
• configuring a unique URL for your feed
• about BlogSend
  
• emailing posts to your blog
  

8. Posting, Editing, and Modifying Posts

• understanding the post interface
  
• creating your first post
• editing your post
  

9. Formatting Your Posts

• selecting and sizing your fonts
  
• differentiating text with bold and italics
  
• adding text color
  
• adding links to text
  
• aligning text
  
• adding numbered and bulleted lists
  
• using the blockquote feature
  
• removing formatting
  
• spellchecking and publishing your document
  

10. Working with Images

• about Blogger and web images
• adding your upload path
  
• inserting an image
  
• width, height, and alternative text
  
• linking your blog image to a detail image

11. Adding Your Blogger Profile

• about your profile: privacy and identity
  
• adding your photo to your profile page
• adding an audio clip to your profile
• location and work
  
• extended info
  
• viewing your profile
  
• checking out your profile
  

12. Putting Your Blog to Work

• exploring the comment system
  
• adding weblog.com pings
  
• turning on your directory
  
• viewing your newsfeed

13. Team Blogging and Multiple Blogs

• uses for team blogs
  
• inviting team members
  
• restricting administrative access
  
• restricting post and comment privileges
• posting to the team blog
  
• removing a team member
• adding and deleting blogs

14. Getting Daring with Your Blog

• HTML, CSS, and Blogger tags
• changing the header color
• adding a background image
  
• removing the footer
  
• changing text
• adding favorite links section
• completely changing your blog's design

15. A New Trend: Audioblogging

• about audioblogging
  
• setting up your audioblogger account
  
• phone your blog home
  

16. Getting Help

• blogger help
  
• blogger status
  
• known issues
  
• blogger knowledge
  
• contact support
  
• for developers

17. Advanced Issues

• more about templates
  
• add-ons and third party software
  
• beyond blogger
  

Rapidshare:
http://rapidshare.com/files/19099197/Lynda_Blog_dtnam.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/19099201/Lynda_Blog_dtnam.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/19099189/Lynda_Blog_dtnam.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/19099206/Lynda_Blog_dtnam.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/19099165/Lynda_Blog_dtnam.part5.rar