Just last night, I upgraded the website to the latest version (1.4.5.0) of BlogEngine.NET.
There are some great new features; my particular favourite being the new widget engine. In fact, the widget engine is so good that I removed all the code from my master template and simply inserted a reference to the widget. Then, at run time, the widget injects all the bits you see in the right hand column. Nifty, or what?!
As well as that, I crafted a new theme called ClarityBlagBlog as well as a companion theme for those who like to view websites on mobile phones or PDAs.
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Those of you who visit this site will no doubt have noticed the new theme! It's based on the one I created for toomanygoodbyes.com, but adapted to take into account all the things you see in a blog: blogroll, tag clouds etc.
Again, when I have finished the tidying up of some of the code, I will make it available as a download.
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Whle I was building toomanygoobyes.com. I knew that there had to be provision for selling the CD via Paypal. However, through a combination of goodness knows what, this seemingly simple process became very tricky indeed.
First off, on the order page, I simply pasted the code for the button into the HTML and saved it. Lo and behold, the TinyMCE editor that is used as the text editor for BlogEngine.Net rather frustratingly strips out all <form> tags.
So, I then spend several hours looking for ways round this. There had to be a simple solution. The nature of the website was such that a full e-commerce solution or even DNN site would be overkill. Anyway, there were some suggestions of how to stop the code stripping out but nothing worked, so I hit upon the nextt thing . . . .
I created a user control called myPaypalButton.ascx and injected this into the order page in three places. I then saved the page and the buttons displayed. So far so good.
Click the first button and there is a post back to the existing page. Click the other two, however, and Paypal is thrown up and all is well. Still, it's no good having a non functioning button.
As it turned out the solution to all of this was not complex, unlike some of the answers I found on the internet. Indeed, the answer could not be found on the internet.
The solution?
I simply created a dummy form in my user control before the real form:
<form action=""></form>
I then uploaded the control ad all three buttons worked Hurrah!
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Today, 02/08/2008, I uploaded a brand new site!
TooManyGoodbyes.com is dedicated to bringing new listeners to the music of Elegant Simplicity. The site is focused, streamlined, ultra modern, compliant and very, very fast!
It was built using BlogEngine.Net, but using it in a very novel way. Instead of it being used as a blog, I converted it to be a basic CMS system. If you visit the site, there is no way you would know it was not a blog. It was very easy to do the conversion: it was simply a case of removing all the things not required and switching off various functions in the settings page.
The theme is brand new, based very loosely on the Clarity theme. I call it ClarityBlackCMS. I will make it available as a download soon for those of you interested in using BlogEngine.NET as a simple CMS system.
As well as the usual BlogEngine.NET stuff, I created several custom controls: the side bar subscribe/unscubscribe box, Paypal buttons, testimonials and album promo. The site works beautifully in all browers. Altogether, it took maybe 36 hours in total to build from start to finish, including writing all the copy, which is original to the site, as well as creating the .pdf downloads and the mp3 samples.
Why not check it out?
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