As you may well know, our knowledge is based largely around Microsoft based products and languages, however there is still one area where we are struggling a little bit. That is this very blog! Yes, it’s built on Wordpress, which is a great product, and one of the best things to happen to PHP. However, following a server upgrade some of the wheels have come off Wordpress a little and things aren’t quite as they should be in Blogville! We currently rely on plugins for this, and also for client blogs which seem to be causing no end of instability following the move to the new server. As such, and with the desire to be able to extend our blogging client, as well as provide a lot greater customisation options for clients, we are trialling Blogengine.NET, an open source blogging engine written in C#. Should it tick a few boxes, particularly in respect to search engine optimisation, then it will be our blog of choice moving forward for clients, allowing us to support them more fully rather than a plugin causing a problem and not knowing where to start because it’s written in PHP (which has it’s own set of issues with regard to configuration etc). We find that things tend to just work with ASP.NET whereas our limited experience of PHP has meant we have to fiddle and tweak rather too much, especially on someone else’s code! I will post in future with regard to the success of Blogengine.NET and you never know it may just be a Blogengine.NET post by then!