Hour 12. Using Blogs and Newsletters

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Difference Between Drupal Blogs and Other Nodes

• How to Use the Blog API to Post From a Smart Phone or Browser Plug-In, Such as ScribeFire

• How to Set Up a Newsletter with Simplenews

Introduction

You saw how to add socializing and communications tools to your site with discussions, polls, and comments from your site’s end users. In this hour, you will explore the other direction—communicating to your site’s end users.

Blogging software is the fastest way to publish information to the web. By now, users expect their blogging software to support the inclusion of images and other attachments, as well as areas for comments and discussions. All of these ...

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