I spent all last nigth working on it, but it was worth it: our web site for the Central Ohio .NET Developers Group has been revamped (again) and is now based on the Subtext blogging engine.
A few months back we rebuilt the site using the new ASP.NET 2.0 Club Site Starter Kit, but that proved to be a good idea gone bad. In the beginning the starter kit seemed to fit the bill for what we needed with the ability to modify and add things as time went on. However, we soon learned the hard way that the starter kit is a piece of crap. It had several bugs, most notably with viewing events and registering users (the two most important features of the site). We could have tried fixing the bugs, and I did get around to fixing a couple of them, but finding time to do that has been difficult. We needed something that “just worked” without any hassle, and that's where Subtext comes in [1]. Moving the group site to be blog-based made the most sense and is probably the way we should have went in the first place. Oh well, another lesson learned.
[1] We thought about using Community Server, but it's quite a bit more than what we really need at the moment, so we went with Subtext. If we ever get around to doing more than a simple blog for events and other related announcements, we'll take another look at CS.
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