I've a strong desire to become more active in the 'blogsphere' and therefore I'm re-launching this site. 

My focus now will primarily be on the Umbraco CMS product but I will continue to look into Rocky Lhotka's CSLA.NET framework.  Both products are mature stable applications and most importantly for the Small to Medium sized Enterprise (SME) sector that I work in, they are both free or subject to flexible licence agreements.

This site is actually only a temporary one whilst I build an Umbraco version.  :-)  

I've got a couple of nice Umbraco packages to launch soon as well, so watch this space.

It's taken me a while to really take a look at this open source .NET CMS system built in c# but now I have I won't look back.

For years I've built many different CMS solutions for clients where I would target each individual site with specific additions to a basic CMS.  This became both tedious and dangerous.  Why dangerous?  Well apart from being very difficult to manage it ultimately leads to an unhappy client and potential lawsuits!  I never quite got that far but it made the projects focus the CMS and not the actual website.

Thanks to Peter Labrow at Labrow Marketing for pointing me in the direction of this great piece of software.  It's based on open standards, fully compliant and easy to extend.  Just got to brush up on the XSLT which is used to build the templates.

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