Friday, September 5, 2008 9:31 AM by Michael Paladino
As you can probably tell by the RSS craziness or by the new look, I have followed in the footsteps of numerous others (Brian, Zach, Tim, and others I'm not remembering) who have switched to BlogEngine.NET. My blog was previously running on the blog module of a DotNetNuke install. While DotNetNuke is a reasonable solution for sites with a lot of different types of content or sites needing a lot of out of the box functionality, it was a bit overkill for just a blog. Also, the blog module was a relatively late entry into the DotNetNuke world and just didn't yet have all the functionality that other blog engines have.
I've heard a lot of good things about BlogEngine.NET and so far have been impressed. I used a template from DesignsByDarren.com and was able to create a "theme" relatively painlessly. The migration process ended up being a combination of custom SQL to move over the content and comments and manually re-uploading the images into the new blog. I'm planning on migrating my family's personal site as well which will pose a bigger challenge as it is extremely image-heavy and manually moving them all is not an option. I'm looking forward to the challenge!