{"id":70,"date":"2006-02-28T20:57:02","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T01:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2017-02-23T10:11:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T15:11:50","slug":"blog-design-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2006\/blog-design-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Blog Design Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the world of modern web design!<\/p>\n<p>This is a very good book on blogs. OK, so why&nbsp;should web designers&nbsp;want to read a book on installing and customizing popular blogs? <\/p>\n<p><strong>The anwer:<\/strong> web designers today, <strong>NEED<\/strong> to learn how to work with blogs. Blog implementation (installing, customizing, skinning)&nbsp;is&nbsp;a growing part of the web design&nbsp;business these days and is now an essential tool in the web designers toolbox.<\/p>\n<p><iframe scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=wwwmontrealma-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=1590595815&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;lc1=0000ff&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=ffffff&amp;f=ifr\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Blog Design Solutions gives you a to-the-point tour of several important blogging engines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moveable Type <\/li>\n<li>TextPattern <\/li>\n<li>ExpressionEngine <\/li>\n<li>WordPress<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The is a multi-author book where each blog is given its due by one or more authors &#8211; as such, you know that each blog is covered by people who know what they&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way, you will also pick up tips about Flikr integration, blog syndication and other things that this old time web designer may have not been &#8216;up to snuff&#8217; on. <\/p>\n<p>I use WordPress, and so I immediately jumped to that chapter; I found the writing to be clear, and the author covered topics that I wanted to read about. I am not a user of the other blog engines, but I&#8217;m glad that the book covers them for sake of comparison &#8211; it&#8217;s always good to know about competing products.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond covering the blogs, the last chapter actually takes you step-by-step through the process of creating a blog from scratch using PHP. I&nbsp;went through the code, and enjoyed the way the author runs through the process &#8211; you&#8217;ll might also pick up a few PHP ideas along the way.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend this book to any web designer who has&nbsp;the intention of earning a living in web design.<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook (The Web Design Heretic)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blog Design Solutions is a very good book on blogs. OK, so why should web designers want to read a book on installing and customizing popular blogs? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4830,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/4830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}