It's been a little under a month since I launched the new BetterDocuments site, and so far it's been an enjoyable, trouble-free experience. I have a long way from where I want to be; but having a weblog site has proved to be an effective medium for me to accomplish what I've set out to do.
The "trouble-free" part of my experience is mostly due to the blog software that I selected to build my site. I wanted something low-cost (free is always good), easy to install, with a lot of features, and built on the .NET framework (being a .NET programmer myself.) After a week long search, I was very pleased to find every single that I was looking for in DasBlog, built by newtelligence.
I was able to submit a post after about 15 minutes of installation and configuration; and even though it comes with 16 site templates (themes) ready to go, I created my own theme in about a day's work - which I strongly recommend. Maintaining this site has been incredibly easy. DasBlog is very well put together technically using C#, storing all data in XML so that you don't need a database. I was also able add additional functionality of my own, all thanks to good documentation.
I wish to thank Scott Hanselman and Omar Shahine for their continued work on a great weblog engine. You also find other tips, add-ons, and kudos by searching for "dasblog" in Google. Needless to say, I am now a big fan of DasBlog, so much so that I'm going to use it for all of my blogsites ... including new personal site (coming soon!)
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