I have had my blog for some time now, I built it completely from scratch while I was learning ASP.NET 2.0..  I thought it would be a great thing to do to help me learn, and also if its good enough I could even offer it as a blogging platform. 

Well now I look at it and realise how much of a shit job I did!  Ok its not that bad, it functioned well and was pretty quick but just lacked all the good features and was hard to update as I had built the entire thing using SQLDataReader and hard coded a lot of things.

Recently while browsing through DotNetKicks I found a post on a blog called Janko, and he was talking about BlogEngine.NET and how good it was.  I have been meaning to change for some time, and tried to have a go with SubText but didn't get very far!  So after reading Janko's post and asking a few questions I decided to give it a go!  It was easy to install and I have slightly adapted one of the original Themes (As you can see). I posted another question at Janko's about code formatting and got a reply about using Windows Live Writer..

WOW!

I thought BlogEngine.NET was pretty cool from first look out the box, NOW I have installed Live Writer and have just figured out how to use it.. Its just blown my mind!  How fricking cool is this!  I have installed some extensions like Code Formatting, Insert File, Insert Video etc...  And I can Blog from my desktop with loads of features and SO much easier than before.

Why of why didn't I do this earlier!!