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June 07: Blog Design Solutions book
A month or so ago I received a copy of Blog Design Solutions. It's a very useful book indeed, but having spoken to a few other designers about it, it doesn't seem to be very widely known about. It takes you through the steps of setting up, and customising, Movable Type, Expression Engine, Wordpress and TextPattern. Although the MT and Wordpress chapters covered very familiar ground (for me), I found the Expression Engine chapter in particular to be very useful, as that's a product I've wanted to get started with for some time now. Throughout the book the writing is clear and concise, and accompanied by helpful screenshots.
To summarise, if you have any interest in learning about one or more of the systems listed above, I'd highly recommend picking up a copy of this book. However, if you're already familiar with all these pieces of software (or have no desire to learn a new one), it's probably not for you. The book provides an excellent grounding in each, but it's not aimed at people who are already experts.
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Does the book go into how to customize Wordpress and the sort of best practices one should use? Maybe reference a few good PHP books dealing particularly with it?
I'm a bit behind and haven't really toyed with Wordpress more than a few days. Maybe this is a book I could really use...
Edward
June 7, 2006 6:34 PM
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