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Creating a Blog with Ghost

by Susan Simkins

Are you interested in using a blogging platform that focuses purely on the heart and soul of a blog? Ghost's elegant content-first approach is sure to please the blogging purist. Software required: Web Browser, Ghost, Text Editor.

What you'll learn

Are you interested in using a blogging platform that focuses purely on the heart and soul of a blog? Ghost's elegant content-first approach is sure to please the blogging purist. In this training we'll learn about the Ghost blogging platform, from choosing themes and making basic customizations, to learning how to use Ghost's simple approach to writing to maximize content creation efficiency. While we'll be going through everything step-by-step, a basic understanding of HTML and CSS will help you understand the process of customizing a theme. If you feel comfortable opening and editing HTML files with a text editor, and writing basic CSS selectors, you will be able to follow along in this tutorial. We will also discuss some technical aspects of Ghost, although you don't need to understand it to create your blog or follow along in this tutorial. Software required: Web Browser, Ghost, Text Editor.

About the author

Susan is a web design tutor for Pluralsight. Growing up, Susan was both a passionate artist as well as a computer tech aficionado. When she discovered the world of web development, she found that she could meld those two passions together into something amazing. Soon after, Susan began devoting herself to building beautiful and functional web content for businesses and nonprofits. It was through those experiences Susan developed a fluency for web coding languages. Since then, Susan has develo... more

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