Move over, dasBlog

by Jörg Jooss 29. April 2007 09:07

I've finally migrated this site from dasBlog to SubText, and added two more domains for this site—joergjooss.info and jörgjooss.de. Actually, this has happened more than one month ago, but only today I've finally settled for using Tim Heuer's awesome Origami skin after starting with Piyo. I added some CSS stuff from Piyo that I preferred over the original version (such as font families), and put a search text box into the sidebar (a feature that for whatever strange reason isn't being used in many SubText skins). What I like most about the skin: It renders code listings perfectly (unless you use the fixed layout), and it works fine in Firefox, Opera, and IE (fluid layout recommended here).

The update also required me to have my site upgraded to ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005, which means I can now host some live demos on this site—once I've figured out how to make SubText's BlogRequestModule play along nicely with such content Wink.

Note that I didn't bother to preserve any PermaLinks from dasBlog so far.

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Jack Wheeler
Jack Wheeler
4/30/2007 8:34:37 PM #

Hi Jörg,
I recently started a blog using dasBlog and I'm curious as to the reasons for your move to SubText (other than the move to ASP.Net 2.0). My reason for asking is that if there are clear advantages to SubText, I'd like to know about it before getting in too deep with dasBlog!

Thanks,
Jack Wheeler

Jörg Jooss
Jörg Jooss
5/1/2007 10:37:42 AM #

Jack --

the three main drivers for me were ASP.NET 2.0, medium trust support, and  Vista compatibility, all of which are not easy to achieve with dasBlog out-of-the-box right now.

Vista compatiblity? Sadly, yes. When I tested Vista RC2 on my home PC, I discovered the hard way that dasBlog reads time zones from registry keys that don't exist on Vista. These registry keys were never meant to be used by applications, so it's clearly a bug in dasBlog. Not being able to test and play with a local copy of my web site was a clear no go for me. (I actually didn't check whether these keys have been put back in Vista RTM or not.)    

Another pleasant surprise is SubText's nice skinning architecture, which seems a more powerful and approachable to me than dasBlog's themes.

Right now, SubText simply seems a bit more polished to me than dasBlog.

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