by Dave Reeder
2. April 2009 09:00
Hello and welcome to my shiny new site. This new version is vastly different as I decided to base in on an ASP.NET blog. A lot of people would have gone for Wordpress or Joomla or some other PHP solution, but my server which I share with a friend of mine is a Windows sever so it was easier to go down the Microsoft route.
So the Blog I chose was BlogEngine.NET
It actually came down to a matter of typing "ASP.NET Blog" into Google and clicking the first link. This returned "BlogEngine.NET" which is an open source blogging tool.
For a designer who is new to all this development stuff, it is great and very easy to use! It is quick to get up and running, although I went for the "Website" download which is the simplest option. I will see how it goes, it is currently running on an XML datastore rather than a database.
Posting About Resources like jQuery Plugins
I still aiming to not do much freelance work as I have some personal projects on the go. However, I aim to update this blog up to date and post a lot about things that are happening in the design world. I am getting constant requests for effects, usually ones that run off the increasingly popular jQuery framework. So, my aim is to post about these and keep these resources in a handy, easy to access location.