Robinsonweb has moved again

• February 21, 2008 by dave
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STOP! Don't go away, your shortcut is not wrong. 

Why a move?
Well, after much thought and pondering I decided to move my site to a different host.  Along with it I have changed blogging software.  I have done this for a number of reasons.  My site was previously hosted at Freewebdot, I chose there about 2 years ago when it was free to have a site hosted by them.  Due to reasons "beyond their control" they now require people to pay for each of their hosted sites.  Things have been OK for a while, but until recently I have not been able to log into my account with them because when you click the LOGIN links the login screen does not load.  I have sent many emails to them over the past couple of months with no reply more than an automated response. 

Software
Iwas previously using the free express edition of Community server which worked well out of the box, but is not very customisable unless you have either money or time. I want to use blogging software that can be maintained and customised without needing lots of time and money, which also rules out the possibility of writing the whole site myself.  So after some digging around and considreation I have settled on the open source blog engine at dotnetblogengine.net.  As far as software years go this is very infant software written in C#.  It has however gained quite a large amount of support from users as well as the general community.  The strong points for the blog engine project are first and foremost it is free, it is easy to create and apply your own theme of choice and it is relatively easy to create your own extensions.  So easy infact that I have already written a Random Quote extension, when installed the administrator can add quotes and a control will randomly select one to display on each page rerfresh.  This is more surprising when you consider that I am an experienced Visual Basic developer and the extension is written in C#. 

Here is a list of the available extensions by the community that I have so far installed in the blog engine:

• Comment Toolbar
• lightbox
• Quickerlinks
• Social bookmarks
• Youtube
• Askimet antispam extension
  If you do want to install this extension you may need to update some of the blogengine files as explained here.
  

It is going to take a couple of weeks to transfer my blog posts over from my previous host, so please bear with me.