In a very few words, sBlog.Net is a minimalistic blog engine. This project was heavily inspired by wordpress, though there are a lot more to come in the following days! You will be able to do all of the normal activities that you could do in a blog like adding a post or page, adding categories or tags, adding additional authors and many more. If I have to describe sBlog.Net in a single sentence, I would say,
"For the love of asp.net mvc and wordpress"
To get started, you just need an instance of Visual Studio 2010/2012 with ASP.Net MVC 4, MS SQL server (express should also be fine) and optionally IIS.
Feature additions
- Fresh and clean admin UI using bootstrap with easily accessible menus & interface
- More themes
- Ability to use markdown editor w/ live preview instead of ckeditor w/ options to easily switch
- Ability to auto save drafts every 30 seconds
- Social bar in the blog footer
- Ability to select blog theme using the web.config or the admin interface
- Ways to identify private posts easily
- Shortcuts in the dashboard for most frequently used options
- Live preview for syntax highlighter on the admin section to see how code sections will look
- Tabbed interface for blog settings
- Ability to shorten urls using the blt.ly service
- Mini profiler support
Thanks for trying out sBlog.Net! http://sblogproject.net