Getting Started with Ghost: Reach out to the world and publish great content with the power of Ghost

Bracey

Andrew J Boutte

Balderston

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4.4 (5 Ratings)

eBook Nov 2014 152 pages 1st Edition

Bracey

Andrew J Boutte

Balderston

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If you are new to Ghost, this book is ideal for you. You might be completely new to content management systems or you might have experience with others such as WordPress. Some knowledge of web design basics such as HTML and CSS will be useful, but the book is designed so you can enter at the point relevant to you.

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Ankit Modi Feb 05, 2015

A book that explains in detail what ghost blogging platform is all about and why its the future for bloggers and publishers. Must Read.

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Harish C Feb 02, 2015

Ghost is very new and this book covers all the information one needs to get started. I have been following the authors of this book on their personal sites and feel this book is a nice attempt to combine all their knowledge about Ghost in one place.If you are interested in learning about Ghost than this is the book you must read.

Christine Dec 30, 2014

Great read for getting started with Ghost blogging or creating themes for Ghost. The book goes in depth on setting up a development environment for creating themes on all operating systems.The author does a good job of breaking down everything to help someone who is not a computer expert, but who is comfortable using a computer. The author does gloss over basics of getting Ghost hosted on other VPS hosting services beyond using Ghost(Pro). But again, this book is more setup for someone looking to start a blog or move from another blogging platform.Creating themes is the meat and potatoes of the book. It will go over the basics of two different design types (ie: one or two column layout) and make the reader think about how they would like their site to look. Code snippets are included to help the reader through it all.I recommend this book to anyone wanting to start with Ghost or developing themes for Ghost.

Anonymous Mar 03, 2015

This book feels incomplete. If you aren't accustomed to building your own themes from scratch or have completed websites on your own then this book will still work for you. It's a good book for intermediate to ADVANCED users. It leaves a lot of self-research to complete an elastic layout theme. The entire premise of the book is to use elastic layouts with stylus. In order to finish your website you will have to refer to documentation and lots of other tutorials.The best part is how they handle the source code. They way it's organized makes a lot of sense and is a good workflow to adapt.Kezz Bracey is one of my favorite devs. She has a great technical workflow and reading this book you too can have this workflow. Watch all her previous videos and tutorials too. If I did not do that there is no way I would have a fully polished and complete website.The one major fault in this book is not setting a font size on the root element. When you do this with 4-6 lines of media query code in your elements_default.styl applied to the html root element. Everything sizes very nicely.I appreciate their approach of leaving things open ended and allowing you to choose which style to create. This is good but they don't have enough "recipe's" in the book. You will find yourself scouring tutorial sites and documentation to complete a theme as you want.I don't know who the other two authors are but I think Kezz should of just released it herself. Lastly, the idea of choose or own theme path is great. It shouldn't be abandoned but improved upon. Maybe take the approach of a "Choose your adventure book" ;)

Daniel G. Murray Jan 19, 2015

If you want to build you own themes or modify existing ones this book provides some great tips. The authors also explain some options for setting-up self hosted deployments of the Ghost platform.

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