I am glad there are more and more people interested in BlogEngine.NET. Not just interested in using it but also in contributing. I'd like to present you two new websites that you may not heard of.

BlogEngine.NET Forums (unofficial)

Here you can ask any question about BlogEngine.NET or search the forums - maybe your question has already been answered. Posts are split in five groups: General, Themes, Extensions, Advanced and Other. The most popular topics so far are Customising BlogEngine and Latest Themes which is somewhat expected.

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An increasing number of people all over the world are taking advantage of blogs for a personal interest as well as for online businesses. Much of the increased popularity is thanks to WordPress hosting – blog platform making it easy to setup and manage professional blogs. Regardless of what you are going to use the blog for, you obviously want it to perform as good as possible.

So, how do you find the best blog hosting provider and what do you have to take into consideration when choosing one? What Are the Options?

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CrazyEgg is a service that will help you visualize the usage of your website. How? Simple, by tracking visitor's activity on your pages. It shows you what's hot on your website, where users click and shows you very detailed information for each click by creating very detailed and graphically rich reports.

It has free and paid plans. Free plan is ideal to test this service. You can set up test for up to four pages and maximum number of 4000 clicks. Paid plans costs from 9$/month to 99$/month. I recommend you to start with free plan and then upgrade if you find this service useful. I believe you will.

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When I decided to run a new blog, I was in a dilemma whether to write engine from scratch or to use some existing solution. Since I wanted to do it fast, I started to search and BlogEngine.NET grabbed my attention. It is an open source project written in ASP.NET 2.0, which was a good starting point for me. Since I use Microsoft technologies in my everyday work it was easy to customize the solution.

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