Creating a Blog with Ghost
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.
Table of contents
- What Is Ghost 3m
- Creating a Ghost Account and Blog Management Overview 4m
- Creating a Blog 5m
- Marketplace and Choosing a Theme 8m
- Installing a Theme and Customizing Our Blog 7m
- Writing a Post and Introduction to Markdown 9m
- More Markdown, Using HTML, and Adding Images 9m
- Embedding Videos, Adding Tags and Publishing Posts 5m
- Creating a Static Page 5m
- Modifying a Theme: Custom Navigation 11m
- Modifying a Theme: Adding Custom Styles 9m
- Modifying a Theme: Changing Link Styles 6m
- Modifying a Theme: Changing Fonts 8m
- Adding Comments with Disqus 6m
- Installing Our Customized Theme 5m
- Using a Custom Domain 7m
- Setting up Our Global Ghost and Disqus Profile 6m
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