How to Do Everything with Your Web 2.0 Blog by Todd Stauffer

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Your hands-on guide to next-generation blogging

The popularity of blogs has skyrocketed, expanding by more than 60 times in the past three years. This book explains how to include the hottest new social Web technologies in your blog to encourage user interaction and content development, resulting in a two-way experience that will create more hits, more fans, more friends, or more customers.

How to Do Everything with Your Web 2.0 Blog makes it easy for you to choose the best blogging tools for your needs and learn the basics of blog design, template manipulation, and Web 2.0 look-and-feel. You will also learn to use PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and AJAX technologies to add interactive features to your blog.

Todd Stauffer is the author or coauthor of three dozen books on computing and the Internet. He is the originator of the How to Do Everything series and author of all four editions of the bestseller How to Do Everything with Your iMac.

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Todd Stauffer is the author or coauthor of three dozen books on computing and the Internet. He is the originator of the How to Do Everything series and author of all four editions of the bestseller How to Do Everything with Your iMac.

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Great book, but what about mashups?by LOTONtech

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January 09, 2009: This book will have you blogging in no time at all. It's so nicely written that it -- with a little additional help from me, to be honest -- helped my wife set up her "Comper's Chronicle" blog.

(the blog is about winning online competitions, if you're wondering what a "comper" is)

She has successfuly incorporated Google Adsense and Amazon Associates content, as suggested in Todd's book.

Since the book deals with Web 2.0, I personally would have liked more coverage of how to incorporate web mashups into blogs. Not just photos and videos, but proper "mashups" that you can create for free -- using Yahoo! Pipes, Dapper, Microsoft Popfly, and Google Mashup Editor -- to combine information, pictures, whatever from various web pages and feeds. And then incorporate the results in your blog.

But I still rate it 5 stars.

I Also Recommend: Introduction to Microsoft Popfly, No Programming Required, Working with Yahoo! Pipes, No Programming Required, Creating Google Mashups With The Google Mashup Editor, Mashup Case Studies with Yahoo! Pipes, Mashups Made Easy with Dapper, the Data Mapper.