Blog Design Solutions

I've been a software designer / programmer for 30 some years, working at various levels from programmer to project director so I don't feel like I'm easily intimidated by "tech talk". I also recognize this to be an example of poor quality documentation and technical / tutorial writing and editing. This book seems to be written for "the insiders' community" i.e. experienced CMS, PHP, mySQL website developers.I found the intro material shallow and repetitive, just filling up pages in some places. I bought the book particularly for the WordPress chapter - looking for documentation to take me from installation, through design options, explanation of concepts, and examples of a variety of blog types, how to design and implement them using WordPress tools and rsources. I found instead small examples of snatches of code to be inserted, who knows where and with little explanation of purpose or design / integration considerations (like no variables or links defined). There is also no adequate bibliography or background list of tutorials to create a conceptual environment or even to facilitate looking up terms.If you had done this stuff before, these are probably useful tidbits and the name dropping and personal asides might be cute but between the insider jokes and jabs and lack of structured documentation, I found this material next to useless.Needless to say, I returned this book - the first time I've availed myself of Amazon's return policy in about 100 purchases.

If you're looking for a general book that will give you insights into all the common blogging platforms, then this isn't a bad book, however it's much more general than I'd expected. This may be my own fault for not spending enough time reviewing the contents before buying....!For a general overview of customising the main platforms and setting up a test environment, I would recommend this book. For anyone who wants to understand their chosen platform better though, I would recommend that they look for a specialised book on that platform.Also, please note that the Wordpress examples are based on version 1.5...!

Meme si ce livre n'est plus tout jeune, il permet de situer chaque application pour gerer ou creer des blogs. Très pratique