50+ Themes proves BlogEngine.NET popularity

9. January 2009
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One key measure for the popularity of a product is how the community invests its own resource and effort to create new Themes and Styles. This is certainly true for blogging platforms like WordPress boasting 540 Themes (here), Joomla offering free-to-download (some here), Google Blogger with hundreds (here, here and here).

Been sometime since we looked back at Telligent’s Graffiti CMS, but they also have some good looking sites being customized by users. I do have some question marks about if customers will want to pay $99 for a Blog platform when so many (equally good or much better) products exist. In these economic times many bloggers, be they enthusiast or professional will think twice about spending cash. However, I even found Graffiti CMS Themes here.

BlogEngine.NET is starting to show the same street-credibility with 50+ (free) excellent styles available also with the recent release of a custom Theme Pack pulled together by Janko.

Ambay Software are trying to keep up with the excellent raft of sample themes are maintaining a demo area of all the Themes we see released. OK, we might not get a new one uploaded on the day, but once we know, we do our best to make it available!

You can visit our demo BlogEngine.NET theme library here.

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It is with some confusion why Telligent CommunityServer continues to ignore the importance of providing some better Theme samples. Even a small collection allows the amateur-developer to at least pick an approximate style and then customize to something close to their own look and feel. This remains an obvious real drawback to choosing CommunityServer over other Forum products.

This is an obvious real drawback for customers selecting CommunityServer.

Of course Ambay Software do help customers tailor their own CommunityServer theme, but even we recognize some organizations, charity or community-site, just don’t have the resource to purchase even a few days Theme work.

Nick Harrington
team ambay software

BlogEngine.NET, Windows Live Writer ,