Paying Homage to BlogEngine.Net

I started the year with a resolution to act on a desire that I have had for a long time, which was to start a blog. Being a developer, I had several requirements set for myself:

· I wanted to host the blog myself

· I wanted it to be built on .Net framework (Open Source)

· Of course it had to be theme driven

· And most importantly easily extensible

It didn’t take much research for me to find that my blog engine of choice would be BlogEngine.Net. It met and I know it has the potential to exceed all of my requirements. And amazingly it was so easy to configure. Simply copied the entire thing out to my server hosted at DiscountASP.net and… Voilà!

Yes it was that easy. So thanks Mads Kristensen..

Now to give honorable mention to creators of the theme and extensions that I am using:

Theme

Gluttony - Thanks to Jesse Foster for the reproduction of this theme for BlogEngine.Net

Extensions

Lightbox – Thanks to René Kuss for this extension which automatically wires the page for use with Lightbox which allows one to show images as a page overlay

QuickerLinksAdv – Thanks to ckincincy for this extension which converts words/phrases into predefined links.

SnapLinks - This extension allows for easy implementation of snap.com preview links.  These links let your blog visitor preview external links and many other link types without leaving your site.

These are the extensions that I have currently implemented but there are more.  Check out the others BlogEngine.net extensions.

Windows Live Writer

Even though BlogEngine.net's post editor is great, I would recommend installing Windows Live Writer which greatly enhances your blog writing experience.  Additionally if you are a technical blogger and expect to post code, I would also recommend the Insert Code Snippet plugin for Window Live Writer written by Leo Vildosola.

Happy Blogging!!