At last I have managed to get the blogging part of the website up and working. This was actually much easier than I anticipated and largely because of using PHP.
I purchased for just $50 a PHP news/blogging package that adds the full capability to my website. It only took about 30 lines of PHP added to the blogging webpage and it was all up and working. It even includes a nice little html editor for adding new posts and users can add their own comments.
Now I could have tried to do the same thing with ASP.NET but I can just imagine the time it would have taken. I am all in favour of ‘eat your own dog food’ but my microISV is intended to create windows forms controls and not web technology. So I think I made the right choice in going for the quick and cheap option.
Of course, the rest of the site looks a little barren as there is no other content apart from the blogging posts. But one step at a time!
