Aslam-o-Alikum, Hello, Ciao, Adaab!
Its been a while I have touched my site at all until it start stinking recently and many people around me pointed that out to me. But every time, my laziness took over to me. Similarly, like other fellow Pakistanis, I desperately want a change but never really want to dig that hole to find a new light out of it.ooOops , I am getting political here, well thats why I am reshaping this site now to focus on what I really am , hence there comes Technology, Sports and Politics tag line. I know like zillionth of people on the internet, No one care what I write but at the end blogging is all about throwing out the lava within.
However, lets focus on more introductory blog of this site. When I decided enough is enough I know I have to change, I have decided certain objectives for my new site. I am just writing that experience so that anybody keen on moving on that direction could benefit from it..
Fresh and Clean Design
I wanted a fresh and clean design as compared to last time. I have been quite vocal recently about the clean and simple designs. Therefore, I wanted my site represent my same stance as well. While looking at the different design approaches, I have been sure but when I saw this metro-fied theme, it did not let me past anywhere else. Metro has been bread and butter of Microsoft due to same mantra I was vocal about. Therefore, I thought its probably best to acquire this theme. Its not yet fully metro as I should call it more of metro-inspired them. However, I am going to build on top of it and probably submit to open source as a thank you.
Blogging Focus
Its been a while I have been thinking to write what I am thinking and experiencing in day-to-day life. Although twitter has given me some of relief but 160 characters are some time not sufficient to express what you want to say (Yes , everyone who knows I am not at good at summary). Last design was more of CMS (Sharepoint) based which means it was about the content but it was never really any content apart from ME , MySELF & I , so it was never really expressed what I want. Therefore, I kept sort of new year resolution this year that it has to Change. Hence I based my new site on rather a blogging engine.
Technical Implementation/Blogging Engine
Once I made up my mind, I have two choices, either I go with wordpress (honestly do other PHP blogging tools have any chances against it), but then I wanted to keep my site in .NET platform, therefore, WordPress was out of the question. Hence I researched few of .NET blogging tools, of which DasBlog and BlogEngine.NET came more prominent. I will have to write another blog explaining why I have chosen BlogEngine.NET.
I have Microsoft WebMatrix who has inspired me since its introduction as I have worked with this tool in the past and I always admired its simplicity. All I have to do is to fire up the application, download the BlogEngine.NET’s template from the gallery. After that some usual customization of getting theme from their gallery and security updates. There you go…we have the site ready for publishing and WebMatrix has built-in support for web publishing too. All that took me only few hours for this change.
So for now, lets welcome to new site…..