Read some more on the book and see some scanns.
It´s quite exciting to see that a team of talented designers just published a book about blogdesign. Not having had an insight view yet, Simon Collisons screenshots look delicate.
Drew McLellan was ment to write about TXP. Unfortunately he wasn’t able to work on the book in the end, so his place was taken by John Oxton who discusses Textpattern.
The book covers various blogCMS. Here is a list of the authors and their chapters:
Phil Sherry – The “Web Log”
David Powers – Creating a local test environment for your blog
Andy Budd – MovableType
Simon Collison – Expression Engine
Chris J Davis & Michael Heilemann – Wordpress
John Oxton – Textpattern
Richard Rutter – Write your own blog engine
Review
In this book, a team of renowned web designers take you through the ins and outs of putting together great blogs. They waste no time harking on about the philosophy of blogs, or the community behind them. Instead, they get straight to the practical details, showing how to set up a basic blog in some of the world’s most popular blogging engines – Movable Type, ExpressionEngine, WordPress, and Textpattern. With your blog set up, they then show you how to build great looking, usable layouts for your blog.
(friends of ED)
A free reading is btw.:
On LUKEW Luke Wroblewski and Jed Wood are about Blog Interface Design 2.0.
Introduction: Despite their popularity, many blogs suffer from interface design shortcomings.
