Blog Design Solutions

As hinted earlier, this book is written to be fully compatible with both Windows PCs and Macs. Because all the blog engines discussed are built with PHP/Perl and MySQL (opensource software, which runs on basically any platform), you should also be able to get most of the examples to run on Linux/Unix-based systems if so inclined (although we don’t specifically cover these systems).
Everything you need to use this book can be downloaded from the Web; the locations of all software you need to set up your development environment are listed in Chapter 2, and the locations of the blog engines themselves are detailed in Chapters 3–6 in the relevant places. Finally, all the source files for the custom sites developed by the authors throughout the course of Chapters 3–7 are available from the friends of ED website, www.friendsofed.com. Just search for the book using the books option on the main navigation menu, and all will become clear.