It was time, the old layout and colors wasn’t working but I haven’t gotten around to fix it, especially the comment section looked really bad. Then I found out about blogengine.net. After experimenting with it for a while I found that it had what I liked:

• The code was readable and easy to get into for modification
• It wasn’t depending on a database for storage (how many bloggers are really creating that much information that calls for a full fledge database?). But it could be added.
• It had a clear separation of the view and presentation that makes it easy to build and expand themes.
• I found a good looking basic view that I could modify for my needs.
• It has easy export/import functionality through the standardized BlogML format (it handles posts, comments and images just right, really powerful).

So after tweaking the view a bit (more is coming) I decided to make the switch. And as you can se it’s up and running. Hope you like the new look.

All that happen to subscribe should really shift to the feedburner link instead of the old web link. But for those who are still using the old one I found an easy solution. I used built in syndication http handler and some configuration.

Normally, blogengine is configured so that a call to syndication.axd is fed to a HttpHandler called SyndicationHandler. So I just added the old SyndicationService.asmx (without the extra GetRSS part) to point to the same piece of code. In the web.config I added the following line to the <httpHandlers> section of web.config:

<add verb="*"
path="SyndicationService.asmx"
type="BlogEngine.Core.Web.HttpHandlers.SyndicationHandler,
    BlogEngine.Core"
validate="false" />

And that was all I had to do. Now I just have to get going with some more CSS and images to spice things up a a bit…

// Håkan Reis