The first version of this book is now available and free. Click Here to Get Book. When you get to the second page of the cart, you can enter a price (which will be collected by PayPal), but because of transaction fees, I ask that the minimum you enter be US$5. But you’re free to leave it at $0.00.
Future versions of the book may be at a cost, but for right now I’m collecting feedback and considering how to proceed.
Thanks for this! im gonna read it and I’ll give some feedback when im done 
Is this a “how to” guide to Elements CMS?
Yes. It shows how to use the Microblog project and how the things in it work. Then it has you pull up any existing Elements Web site and add a blog to it using the CMS.
There’s plenty this little 100-page book doesn’t cover about the CMS, but it should get anyone up and running pretty fast.
Thank you for all your work. I have downloaded and am in the process of reading. Congrats!
Thanks a lot I’m gonna read it!
Instant download!!! Very good to read, great for starting CMS with Elements - thanX so much for writing.
I read, and worked through the book today, and very much appreciate it. I concede I took the $0 option, but I’ll tip in a few bucks when I have a chance. Well worth the read for anyone interested in a blog.
Thanks a lot for your work ! I learned a lot with your help. I’m waiting for future versions.
Bravo
Thanks, just downloaded. I really need to master this part. I’ll struggle through it.
Thanks for the effort.
OK I am going through book and a bit confused - easy at my age! So the book is based on microblog project and is called “Elements CMS”. So I have three people in my team and I want to set up an admin page as some are read/write and one is read only permissions. Where in book does it show me how to set this up? TIA
I can only describe what currently exists. The current Elements CMS as provided by Realmac does not include anything that would allow multiple people to enter data into the CMS (typically via a Web browser). That will require external software that is not currently available. Dan and Ben have indicated such a remote entry product is coming as an extra, for cost option, but have not provided a time frame. I do not know if that remote entry product would include changeable permissions, you’d have to ask Dan/Ben.
I’ll also point out that the term “blog” in the beginning typically referred to posts from a single author, often on a single subject. What you’re referring to is a full-on Content Management System, which requires much more elaborate plumbing than is currently available within Elements.
Thom thanks thats why we had the conversation the other day on the other post re: CMS. I know your title is “Little Book” and I’m sure you will expand it when other bits are added. So being pedantic and not wishing to confuse people re: CMS and Blogging - which I know exist in Elements collectively - you should rename your book along the lines of “blog” in title rather than CMS. This is just my opinion but there are lots of people that get confused as what a full CMS system is.
I understand your point, however one of the first things I plan to add to the book is using the CMS for articles instead of blog. Yes, you can use the CMS for long-form text. Indeed, I’m doing that on one of the sites I’m working on.
This is something I’m very interested in using the CMS for myself. I’m eager to see what you have in mind.
As I said I don’t wish to be pedantic. However the current CMS in Elements has a very long way to go and we know the team are working on it, but your book is how to do a blog, now how to do an article, its not IMO anything to do with a CMS system, Yes I understand that in this instance you need Elements CMS to blog but you do not need a CMS system to blog. CMS and blogging are different things to me. CMS to me means designing a whole website where my client can go in and change things without my intervention, allowing rules to be applied so co-workers can do various things without asking me every five minutes to add this and that.
So in my eyes your book is based on microblog and is an instructional book on how to blog, its not CMS related other than Elements situation at moment requires CMS to blog.
Already written and will surface in the next generation of the book, probably later this week.
Again, I’ve already written the first extension to the book beyond “blog.” It’ll appear shortly.
Moreover, I’m not sure why you’re complaining about a free book. It seems that your pedanticness is more passive aggressive commentary targeted at Realmac, not me. As I noted, I can only document what exists, not what it will become.
First of all I apologise if I have come over aggressive, that was not my intention. I have already said on more than one occasion given praise and thanks for the book so not complaining about a free book nor your work.
I am not having a go at RM and as I said before you published your book in another thread the title is misleading. As it’s still not a CMS book no matter what you state about whats coming or not.
I will not be commenting on this any more as my intention was not to upset you. I have been using Elements for a year now and contribute here regularly so I have no ulterior motive with RM at all. I am well aware of the “paid for” add on which i feel will make the CMS more CMS.
Have a pleasant evening and keep up the good work!
I look forward to reading it.