What this book covers

Chapter 1, The First Steps with Ghost, starts with a tour of Ghost as a blogging platform, Ghost's official hosting platform, and shows you how to use it.

Chapter 2, Manual Installation and Configuration of Ghost, helps you install Ghost locally to develop themes for it. We're going to show you how to do this, and also how to manually install Ghost on a VPS host, as well as discuss the main configuration considerations when hosting your blog.

Chapter 3, Preparing for Theme Development, deep dives into some of the main components you'll want to edit, and setting up your development environment.

Chapter 4, Beginning Ghost Theme Development, helps us set up a template shell for the theme, which is the first step to designing a theme. We'll take a look at all the aspects of a Ghost blog that can be redesigned, and how to prepare your theme shell for them.

Chapter 5, Applying Design Choices and Visual Styling, helps you learn how to apply visual styling and design attractive, responsive Ghost blogs.

Appendix, Markdown Syntax and Ghost Shortcut Keys, contains the list of keyboard shortcuts in Ghost.