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WordPress 3 For Business Bloggers

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WordPress 3 For Business Bloggers

Overview of this book

WordPress makes the business of blogging easy. But there’s more to a successful business blog than just churning out posts. You need to understand the advanced marketing and promotion techniques to make your blog stand out from the crowd, attract visitors, benefit your brand, and deliver a worthwhile return on your investment.WordPress 3 for Business Bloggers shows you how to use WordPress to run your business blog. It covers everything you need to develop a custom look for your blog, use analytics to understand your visitors, market your blog online, and foster connections with other bloggers to increase your traffic and the value of your blog.You begin by identifying your blog’s strategic goals before going step-by-step through the advanced techniques that will grow your blog to its full business potential.You will learn how to build a custom theme for your blog and incorporate multimedia content like images and video. Advanced promotion techniques like SEO and social media marketing are covered in detail before you learn how to monetize your blog and manage its growth.WordPress 3 for Business Bloggers will help you to create a blog that brings real benefits to your business.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 3 for Business Bloggers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Summary


We've covered a lot of ground in this chapter. You should now know about some of the design principles to consider when working on your blog theme. These should give you the confidence to critically evaluate your existing blog design and maybe make some improvements.

We also went through a very brief introduction to HTML and CSS before setting up a local development environment. Finally, we worked through the process of applying a completely new design for our case study blog by using the Thematic theme framework. We saw how an attractive design can be achieved by just editing the child theme's stylesheets. The finished theme is included in the code bundle for this chapter.

In the next chapter, we will be looking at a variety of options for adding images and videos to our WordPress blog.