List of Open Source Starter Kit Blogs Ready for Hosting

Featured below are a list of open source Starter Kit Blogs designed in asp.net. The blogs can be installed as a standalone website or can be installed as a part of your existing website into a sub domain or a sub folder.

BlogEngine.NET - Rs.7,000 / USD 175 (Includes Domain, Hosting, Installation)

BlogEngine.NET is a full-featured blogging platform that is a breeze to set up, customize, and use. BlogEngine.NET works with your choice of data source; you may use SQL Server, or you may take the plug’n’play approach using XML files.

Overview

• Plug ’n’ Play
  BlogEngine.NET is very easy to setup and customize. To make it work, just upload the files to an ASP.NET 2.0 webserver and you’re ready to start writing. No database configuration, just plug’n’play.
• Full Featured
  BlogEngine.NET comes with all the features you would expect from a modern blog engine as well as new unique features such as AJAX comments and screenshot trackbacks.
• Web 2.0
  BlogEngine.NET features social bookmarks, OpenSearch support, XFN tags, AJAX, Microsummaries, Gravatars, coComments, tag cloud, Google sitemap and other so-called Web 2.0 features.
• Cool Themes
  BlogEngine.NET comes with some very cool themes for you to choose from. If you want to modify or create a new theme you can do so easily with just a basic understanding of HTML and CSS.
• XHTML Compliance
  All the controls in BlogEngine.NET are 100% XHTML 1.0 compliant. All posts you write automatically becomes compliant thanks to the tinyMCE text editor.
• Extendable
  BlogEngine.NET is built from the ground up using nothing but C# and ASP.NET 2.0 all with simplicity in mind. It means that you can write new controls and themes by using the skills you already have as a .NET developer.

dasBlog - .Net Blogging Engine - Rs.7,000 / USD 175 (Includes Domain, Hosting, Installation)

dasBlog is a blogging engine that offers elegant visual aesthetics, powerful easy to use features, and a unique application architecture. dasBlog requires no database engine, using file-based content management with an architecture that ensures excellent performance.

dasBlog is an ASP.NET blogging application. It runs on ASP.NET 2.0, (all versions 1.9x and prior run on ASP.NET 1.1 & ASP.NET 2.0) and is developed in C#. dasBlog is an evolution of the BlogX weblog engine initially written by Chris Anderson and contributors.

The initial conversion from Blogx was created by Clemens Vasters. dasBlog adds lots of additional features like Trackback, Pingback, Mail notifications, and over 50 other major modifications some unique only to dasBlog.

dasBlog does not require a database, so it is easier to get setup and cheaper to host. All that dasBlog requires is that you grant write access to a folder so that dasBlog can save your information.

dasBlog is under active development and is always seeking more contributors! If you feel that you can contribute to the project, we'd love to hear from you.

Subtext Blog - Rs.7,000 / USD 175 (Includes Domain, Hosting, Installation)