This is 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.

About the Author

Todd Stauffer is the author or coauthor of more than 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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Plan Your Web 2.0 Blog Chapter 2: Choose Your Blog Tool Chapter 3: Explore More Blogging Options Chapter 4: Blog Design and Template Editing Chapter 5: Share Your Blog Headlines and Story Feeds via RSS and Atom Chapter 6: Multimedia and Your Blog Chapter 7: Tag, Bookmark, and Publicize Content Chapter 8: Collaborate with Users Through Wikis Chapter 9: Communicate with Users: Forums, Community Blogs, and Newsletters Chapter 10: Grow and Maintain Your Blog Index