Project DescriptionLiteBlog is a light weight blog engine that you can use for your personal blog. It is completely XML based and can be hosted on any IIS server without any database access. The source code is simple and easy to understand.
The LiteBlog Blog engine uses Asp.net MVC 3, Razor Views, JQuery, LINQ to XML, and FckEditor as the building blocks.
- Composing of posts using FckEditor (Rich editor)
- Ability to add code in the blog from the editor
- Syntax Highlighter to highlight the code
- Completely XML based
- Scheduled publishing
- Enhanced XML Profile Provider
- Use of jQuery for AJAX
- Use of Data annotations for validations
- Use of LINQ to XML for XML data access
- Razor Views with maximum HTML compliance
- Maximum performance using a cached middle layer
For a webforms version of the blog engine, refer to LiteBlog Beta (1.1) release. This uses AjaxControlToolkit.
For a sample blog hosted, please check my blog @
http://vijayt.com. The blog is hosted on http://discountasp.net (
without database access)