Ghost Blog Fundamentals, WordPress Alternative for Your Blog

Description

Ghost is an open source, easy to learn alternative to WordPress for creating blogs. 

This course has been completely updated based on rapid changes and improvements in Ghost since its earlier release!

If you're a writer looking for a way to express yourself, Ghost is for you. You'll be able to focus on your writing, not on learning how to use a complex Content Management System (CMS) like WordPress.

You should take this course if you want to create a blog, but you are intimidated by WordPress or heavier Content Management Systems.

At the end of this course, you will be able to take advantage of Ghost's features to produce a great looking, high quality blog, and posts to your blog.

Topics covered include:

• What a blog is

• Choosing a topic

• When Ghost is the right blogging tool for you

• When you may want to use a tool other than Ghost

• Creating a free Introductory account at Ghost

• Introduction to the Ghost User Interface (UI)

• Getting started with Ghost

• What Themes are

• Where to get free or paid themes

• Ghost Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

• Ghost vs. WordPress for SEO

• How to change the look and feel of your blog by changing Themes

• Using Markdown for formatting

• Adding content

• Adding links

• Adding images

• Using Imgbb for images

• Why you should purchase your own Domain Name

• How to add your Domain Name to your Ghost blog

• Google Analytics - What they are

• Google Analytics - Creating an account

• Google Analytics - Adding to your blog

• Disqus Comments - Creating an account

• Disqus Comments - Embed the Code

• Disqus Comments - Upload the Folder

What You Will Learn!

• What a blog is.
• Choosing a blog topic.
• Whether Ghost is right for your needs.
• How Ghost is different from alternatives.
• How to create a free introductory account.
• How to start your own blog using the Ghost platform.
• How to create a new blog post in Ghost.
• How to format text in Ghost.
• How to add links to relevant resources in Ghost.
• How to add graphics to your blogs.
• Themes - Overview
• Themes - Changing Your Theme
• Ghost SE0
• Ghost vs. WordPress for SEO
• How to obtain a domain name for your blog.
• How to assign your domain name to your Ghost blog.
• Google Analytics - Overview
• Google Analytics - Useful Features
• Google Analytics - Creating an Account
• Google Analytics - Adding Google Tracking Code to Your Blog
• Disqus Comments - Creating an Account
• Disqus Comments - Embed Code
• Disqus Comments - Uploading Folder
• Disqus Comments - Moderating Comments

Who Should Attend!

• You have knowledge you want to share through a blog.
• You want a clean, simple interface for blogging.
• You want an alternative to WordPress.
• You want to focus on writing.
• You have a passion, hobby, or information to share.
• This course may NOT be for you if you're an experienced blogger on another platform you like.
• This course may NOT be for you if you want to learn a more feature rich Content Management System.
• This course may NOT be for you if you wan to learn how to make your blog very popular.

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