I was in the process of designing a CSS Theme for www.guitar-frets.com and wanted to incorporate BlogEngine into a Virtual-directory. So I needed to adapt my music theme to work with the BlogEngine.

This Theme uses a white, black and shades of Blues to make a theme that will work well for any Music Related Blog. Guitar-Frets is a site that is strictly Guitar Related and I modified the Theme for BlogEngine to include a blue Bar for the widgets as well as removed the tablature background that I use on the main site.

Music.zip (49.78 kb)

The SQL Server went down and some data has been lost.  I am in the process of restoring the server and all lost data.  The site should be up and running in a few days.  I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause in the interim.

If you see this post it means that BlogEngine.NET 1.6 is running with SQL Server and the DbBlogProvider is configured correctly.

Setup

If you are using the ASP.NET Membership provider, you are set to use existing users. If you are using the default BlogEngine.NET XML provider, it is time to setup some users. Find the sign-in link located either at the bottom or top of the page depending on your current theme and click it. Now enter "admin" in both the username and password fields and click the button. You will now see an admin menu appear. It has a link to the "Users" admin page. From there you can change the username and password.

Write permissions

Since you are using SQL to store your posts, most information is stored there. However, if you want to store attachments or images in the blog, you will want write permissions setup on the App_Data folder.

On the web

You can find BlogEngine.NET on the official website. Here you will find tutorials, documentation, tips and tricks and much more. The ongoing development of BlogEngine.NET can be followed at CodePlex where the daily builds will be published for anyone to download.

Good luck and happy writing.

The BlogEngine.NET team