June 2015
Beginner
620 pages
18h 6m
English
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Chapter 12. Adding a Blog
A traditional website is the gold standard of the web world. It’s infinitely flexible—able to chronicle a personal trip to Machu Picchu just as well as it powers an ecommerce storefront.
However, there’s something distinctly unspontaneous about a website. For example, imagine you want to post a piece of gossip about a celebrity sighting in your hometown. Before you can share your thoughts with the rest of the word, you need to pick a web page filename, decide what HTML elements you’ll use, determine how you’ll link your page to other pages, and so on. None of these tasks is really that difficult, but taken together, they’re enough to discourage casual web authors from writing anything that doesn’t seem worth the trouble.
That’s where blogs fit into the picture. Blogs are a self-publishing format that gets your thoughts online quickly and easily, while avoiding the headaches of website management. They’re a fresh, straightforward, and slightly chaotic way to communicate on the Web. To maintain a blog, you publish short entries whenever the impulse hits you. High-powered blogging software collects, chronologically organizes, and presents your posts on web pages. That means that if you don’t want to fuss with the fine details of website management, you don’t need to. All you need to worry about is posting your thoughts—and with some blogging software, that’s as easy as firing off an email.
In this chapter you’ll learn how blogs work, and you’ll see how to create ...
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