Before completing one year of running this blog, I celebrate the last month of the first year of this blog by deploying my new theme create by JankoAtWrapSpeed.com. Thank you Janko.

Actually Janko created a lovely themes pack for BlogEngine.Net. He branded MosesOfEgypt.Net with his piece art theme. I like the dark theme especially that man standing front of the moon, I think Janko has a vision about it

Any way I hope you all like the new theme as I do.

Last week I found Peperclip themes of BlogEngine.Net. It was adapted by Caio Proiete. But they wasn't totally supporting version 1.4 as well as they had few CSS issues. Beside I wished for more wider area.

Thanks to Caio Proiete for providing these themes. I worked with them and tweaked them to support BlogEngine 1.4 and to provide more wide area for blog posts. You can download first 2 themes now (Cactus and Fall). Hopefully by next week I'll be done with the other2 themes. It worth to mention that I just modified the CSS, MasterPage and CommentView control.

Main CSS modification was around to support Widget Zone including Out of The Box Widgets. Beside fix few incorrect displaying styles

MasterPage modification was basically to provide WidgetZone. I also removed the Navigation section on the left menu and provide it as a widget which you can fine in the same download packages

While CommentView control modified to provide better comment adding form and better comment display with Avatars.

As Caio Proiete mentioned feel free to modify but don't forget to keep his credits.

Downloads:

• Paperclip-Cactus
• Paperclip-Cactus-Wider
• Paperclip-Fall
• Paperclip-Fall-Wider

Well its 2nd of July, but day before yesterday was a good day. BlogEngine.Net 1.4 released, and today I performed my blog upgrade. But I didn't apply widgets yet but, I'm ready to do so once I got some time to be online to do so.

The upgrade didn't take too much time from me, actually no time at all but the uploading time. I performed kind of local upgrade test first to make sure that everything will work fine then I performed the live upgrade, and that is why actually I performed my upgrade so fast.

You can refer to this upgrade post by Al Nyveldt. I wish to share my upgrade experience, but these days I'm preparing for a business trip so I don't have much time to be online. Hopefully soon I'll be able to blog about it.

But one thing I can say, BlogEngine.Net 1.4 is 100% backward compatible with BlogEngine.Net 1.3, that means you will not lose anything or fall into trouble if you just do first stage upgrade like I did. My first stage doesn't include widgets, because I need to set them up and arrange them. So I preferred to write this post over continue my upgrade process :) . You can image how second stage will be easy :)

Have fun with BlogEngine.Net 1.4.