You may notice a new template for the Web Design UK Blog. We have now migrated to BlogEngine.NET and when we get chance will customise the template. At the moment there are some very pressing projects though, so a blog design will have to wait I'm afraid! It will also allow us to customise blogs for clients, as well as work out the SEO impact of using BlogEngine.NET as opposed to Wordpress, which when configured correctly is rather good for SEO. The technical issues with Wordpress however far outweighed good SEO on a fairly infant blog. I'm signing out now, but see you for the next post, which will hopefully be an eye opener about my favourite ASP.NET control!

In my last post about our complete move to .NET I mentioned that we would trial BlogEngine.NET. After a fairly short trial we are going to attempt a Wordpress to BlogEngine.NET migration! This, in essence, seems a fairly straight forward transition to make but we will have to see how the URLs turn out. Obviously they will be different to the Wordpress ones, and should still retain the keyword richness, but only time will tell. I will post part 2 when the migration is complete and we can edit Wordpress posts in BlogEngine.NET as well as reference any code we have borrowed. As well as being written in C# (our favourite language), BlogEngine.NET is also remarkably easy to theme, in contrast to Wordpress where you need to change several files and know PHP. With BlogEngine.NET there are 3 code files plus the CSS and you don't even need to know any ASP.NET, though HTML would be advantageous.

Using the Google Adwords Keyword Tool I found a good search term and that a relevant domain name was available, but prior to searching for the keywords I had to fill in the obligatory CAPTCHA word, which showed me that it seems Christmas may have come slightly early in the Googleplex. Yes, this is 100% genuine. The only way it has seen Photoshop is for me to crop the image and save it for web!

 

Enjoy this Christmas treat from Google!