BlogEngine on GoDaddy
Hi, welcome to my blog. In case you are curious on what engine this blog is running on, it's BlogEngine.NET 1.4.5. No surprises here since I specializes in MS technologies :)
You can find out more about it at http://www.dotnetblogengine.net/
Theme
The current theme I'm using right now is Dilectio. I downloaded it from http://designdisease.com/portfolio/dilectio_wordpress_theme/ on 02/11/2008. At that time, there are a coupole of bugs which you may want to go around it.
Issue 1: It will cause a horizontal scroll bar on IE for 1024 x 768 resolution
You just need to edit the following to solve it:
wp-content\themes\dilectio\style.css:
#bgcontainer - width: 999px
.Header - width: 999px
.CON - width: 969px
.Footer - width: 969px
Issue 2: Text appears on the right side of the image
Edit style.css and remove the following:
/**/ * html .PostContent p img {} /* */
.PostContent p img { max-width: 420px;}
.PostContent p img { width:expression(this.width > 420 ? “420px” : this.width); }
.PostContent img { margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; border:solid 1px #495b6b;}
Hosting
After searching Google, GoDaddy.com is by far the only web hosting company that offers everything (ASP.NET, SQL, MySQL) at a bargain price! They even give 10GB of space + 30GB of web traffic. What's more, $1.99 for domain name. What more can you ask for?
Be sure to check out the promo codes that can save you another $5 ;)
Tips & Tricks to get it up & running on GoDaddy
1. Upload the entire BlogEngine files to your web site at GoDaddy using any FTP software
2. Open up GoDaddy and the Site Configuration manager
3. Go to File Manager
4. Check Mark the App_Data folder and then click the permissions button
5. Set the access to Read, Write and Reset all children to inherit. This will allow all files under it to inherit the above settings. This allows you to move files in and out of App_Data folder and not having to keep updating the permissions in GoDaddy.
6. That's it. Happy blogging!