Buy my book!
That's right people the time has finally come. Blog Design Solutions will be released on February 20th; now is your time to pre-order your shiny copy. Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Michael Heilemann, John Oxton, David Powers, Rich Rutter, Phil Sherry and I worked pretty hard to craft this into a useful book. Let us know if we succeeded.
From the publishers site:
In this book, a team of renowned web designers take you through the ins and outs of putting together great blogs. They waste no time harking on about the philosophy of blogs, or the community behind them. Instead, they get straight to the practical details, showing how to set up a basic blog in some of the world's most popular blogging engines – Movable Type, ExpressionEngine, WordPress, and Textpattern.
That's right, you heard it here first... I am a 'renowned' web designer! Another phrase for the ol' resume.
Help a brother out, my baby needs... stuff.
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- Show Me the Money! at Binary Bonsai » [...] PS: Why won't anyone think of the children!? [...]
- Blog Design Solutions: Blog Tips at ProBlogger » [...] I’m quite excited to see that a team of talented blog designers (Phil Sherry, Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Michael Heilemann, Drew McLellan, David Powers, Chris J. Davis and John Oxton) have just announced their new book titled Blog Design Solutions. [...]
- Silly Sidebar Comments at Low End Theory » [...] It’s really no big feat and nothing that I did on my own so make sure you buy his book if you use this on your site. [...]
- MacManX.com » Blogroll Dive: 1/30/06 » [...] Chris would like you to buy his new co-authored book, Blog Design Solutions. [...]
- Weblog Tools Collection » Book: Blog Design Solutions » [...] Book: Blog Design Solutions Chris of K2, Akismet, Sillyness, Wordpress and many other fames (Boy, I butchered that one) is touting the sale of his book “Blog Design Solutions“. That link to Amazon is NOT an affiliate link but I urge you to pre-order his book. Chris is a great designer, a good friend and a very active member of the Wordpress community at large. I have to toot his horn. [...]
- 幾本外文書 at 二三街角 » [...] Blog Design Solutions [...]
- I’m Blogging This at Binary Bonsai » [...] Why won't you _think of the children?!_ Why?! [...]
- Blog Design Solutions » Blog Design Solutions - The Book » [...] Phil Sherry, Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Michael Heilemann, Drew McLellan, David Powers, Chris J. Davis and John Oxton) announced their new book titled Blog Design Solutions. [...]
- Thank You Fellow Bloggers Meme! at Brendan McPhillips.com » [...] Reading these three blogs lead to starting my own blog using Wordpress. A big thank you goes to Matt Mullenweg, Ryan Boren and all the developers who created and maintain this excellent, FREE, blog software program. If you’re new to Wordpress there is an excellent support system of bloggers who contribute to the extensive Codex and who patiently answer questions on the Support Forum. But when I was first learning I stumbled upon a person that really helped me with the basics of CSS and other Wordpress stuff (of which I was clueless); Podz. Here is his WordPress Guide and his blog. One of the invaluable things that Podz taught me was to download the WebDeveloper toolbar in Firefox to directly tinker with and edit the CSS. Thank you Matt, Ryan, all at Wordpress and Podz! After a long search I decided to use the great K2 Wordpress theme created by Michael Heilemann and Chris J. Davis. It is clean, flexible and easy to use (although if anyone can tell me why my trackback narrative doesn’t show up…). As with Wordpress, the K2 theme as a lot of people who support and answer newbie questions at this forum. For me one person who has really helped me with K2 is Paul Stamatiou. A perfect example of his great articles supporting K2 is the first in a series called Customizing K2. Thanks Michael, Chris and Paul and all the K2 community! [...]
- 9rules Featured » Blog Archive » ‘Round 9rules Religion Community » [...] Nathan Smith’s review is both helpful and entertaining. Nathan begins his chapter by chapter analysis of the book by writing: “Blog Design Solutions is characterized by the literary flair typical of books published by Friends of ED. The list of authors includes many of the big names in the world of blogging and design:Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Chris J. Davis, Michael Heilemann, John Oxton, David Powers, Richard Rutter and Phil Sherry.” [...]
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Stroll on over and visit David Babylon
March 1, 2007
Congrats Chris! I'll be picking up a copy for myself and maybe one of two for friends and family.
Stroll on over and visit Dougal Campbell
March 1, 2007
Awesome! And I see that it's yet another Apress book (under their Friends of Ed label). Can't wait to see this one, too :)
Stroll on over and visit Matt Brett
March 1, 2007
Indeed, this is great news. Congrats Chris! Your WordPress articles helped me get my shit together and I'm sure your book will be invaluable to many.
Stroll on over and visit Craig Hartel
March 1, 2007
Chris,
I've just pre-ordered my copy...I can't wait to get my hands on it. I wish you and your co-authors much success with the whole project!
Stroll on over and visit Chris J. Davis
March 1, 2007
Thanks guys, I appreciate your enthusiasm and kind words. This is something I have always wanted to do, and now I can finally say I have done it.
Published Author, me?!
Stroll on over and visit Nathan Smith
March 1, 2007
I'm looking forward to reading it and ripping it up singing its praises. :)
Stroll on over and visit Nathan Smith
March 1, 2007
Oops, WP stripped the del around "ripping it up."
Stroll on over and visit Andrew Hamann
March 1, 2007
This is gonna be krunk. Maybe this book and Khaled's book should be sold in a special two pack.
Stroll on over and visit Bryan Veloso
March 1, 2007
This is going to rock! I'm definitely going to buy this.
Stroll on over and visit kartooner
March 1, 2007
I'll be the first in line, so long as you offer free fish and chips with the book. :)
Looks cool Chris. Good job man and same goes to the rest of the authors, including that guy who works for the company that created Hitman.
Stroll on over and visit Michael Heilemann
March 1, 2007
Yeah, that guy is cool! :D
Stroll on over and visit Kathan
March 1, 2007
Excuse me, while I go rob some money so I can buy this book! Awesome job Chris.
Stroll on over and visit kristin
March 1, 2007
Exciting! Can't wait =)
Stroll on over and visit Alexander Christoffersen
March 1, 2007
Pre ordered your book Chris. I shall provide for your baby's... stuff ;D
Stroll on over and visit Vidar
March 1, 2007
alright! the chris book.
save a copy for 2007 :D
Stroll on over and visit Simon
March 1, 2007
Sounds really good, ive been looking for a book on blog designs for a while.
Stroll on over and visit khaled
March 1, 2007
Already there buddy, already there :).
Stroll on over and visit Indranil
March 1, 2007
Looking lovely, Chris. Really lovely.
But I already said it.
Stroll on over and visit Matsu
March 1, 2007
Congratulations! You can count on my buying a copy.
Renowned web designer? So, does this mean I will have to call you Mr. Davis from now on? Really, I am very happy for you. Now, to really be renowned, you need to get cracking on your next book. How is that coming along?
Enjoy the moment!
Stroll on over and visit clint
March 1, 2007
later lulu!
congratz man, can't wait to read....
Stroll on over and visit Gustavo Barron
March 1, 2007
Yay! for the stuff in the resume!!!
And, great, even that many topics on the book could be something in someway I already read, just for the support of a pal, i will buy it.. ;)
Stroll on over and visit Shawn Grimes
March 1, 2007
It will be mine, oh yes, it will be mine! Already pre-ordered it Chris and can't wait to get it!
Stroll on over and visit Fabian De Rango
March 1, 2007
oo can't wait to get my copy.
Stroll on over and visit Donnie Jeter
March 1, 2007
Congrats my friend - looking forward to adding this to my bookshelf. Will they be selling it in Barnes and Noble? I have a giftcard that I've been dying to use.
Stroll on over and visit Mr Peeves
March 1, 2007
Chris,
I know you helped format the code for K1 as a Blogger Template.
Is there ANYWAY...you can email me the code to make that a 3 Column format?
Stroll on over and visit Ben
March 1, 2007
I'll definitely be buying this one.
Stroll on over and visit Scott
March 1, 2007
Chris,
Just ordered your book over on Amazon. Looking forward to reading it and getting my hands dirty. I need a little help cleaning up my blog and getting it completed. This book will definately get used!
Also ready the article over @ Godbit - was a good read. Hope you have a great week in Georgia while we here in Pennsylvania dig out frozen butts out from the snow storm.
Stroll on over and visit calvin
March 1, 2007
bought ur book. love it. great work
Stroll on over and visit Jenny
March 1, 2007
i must have it! i cant wait to get it.
Stroll on over and visit Craig Hartel
March 1, 2007
Got an email from Amazon:
"We thought you'd like to know that we shipped your items, and that this
completes your order."
Can't wait to get the book, Chris! If I send it to you, willya autograph it for me? :^)
Stroll on over and visit Syed
March 1, 2007
I got given the book a few weeks ago, currently going through the Wordpress chapter. There's some awesome stuff in there. Thanks!
*...off to nick your Commenter Heat Map plug-in for the chapter*
:)
Stroll on over and visit Nicola M.
March 1, 2007
Ehi Chris it seems interesting.. what about an italian translation?
Stroll on over and visit Ira Hedge
March 4, 2007
I am currently developing my own blog and I so far I think your book will be very useful. Well, I am only in the beginning still (I am finishing chapter two "Creating a Local Test Environment for Your Blog") but so far it turns out that it is easy to read and understand. I hope it goes on that way :)
Stroll on over and visit Remi
April 4, 2007
Where can I buy your book please ?
Stroll on over and visit Chris J. Davis
April 4, 2007
The link in the post goes to the Books page on Amazon.com. You should be able to just order it from there Remi.