Blog engine code name "Vancouver" is a new open source, community driven blog engine, Based on ASP.NET MVC, The engine will have these goals to achieve.
Easy to deploy Multi-language support as well
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as Left to right/right to left Easy to customize Minimize cost to host MetaBlog API support Secure Easy to migrate (either to or from) Extensible Vancouver blog engine, will provide a basic blog functionality,which means all what you expect from any other blog engine will be built-in, such as
Create/Update/Delete/Hide Blog posts RSS feeds OPML feeds Search Tagging Trackbacks Comments Rating Multi publisher blogs (Team blogs) Search Engine friendly Extra Functionality As well as providing the basic blog engine functionality, Vancouver will also provide some extra functionality that will make Vancouver a very special blog engine.
No database required One file backup Blog statistics Code highlighting support Features Highlights
Multi-Language Support Vancouver is a multilingual blog engine out of the box, which means it will support all languages either in writing blog posts, or in the blog UI, the first version will ship with 3 languages
English Arabic French However, a web based tool will be provided to translate all the strings in any language of choice. Easy to Customize Vancouver will have a very easy to customize blog template, to make it very easy for the blog owner to change the look & feel of his blog, layouts, fonts, colors, backgrounds ... etc will be very easy to change based on standard CSS/HTML templates that will make it easy to manipulate.
The blog owner will be able to change the look & feel and preview the result in admin area, without affecting the current look & feel of the blog, when he is satisfied with the result, he can simply with one click apply the style to the blog, or save it for future changes without affecting the online version.
Minimize cost to host Because Vancouver blog engine has a very small foot print, and no database is required, the cost of hosting can be very affordable.
MetaBlog API Support
Support for standard MetaBlog API will make all current blog writer clients such as Windows Live Writer be used easily.
Easy to Migrate Vancouver Blog Engine, will support the community standard BlogML format, which will make it easy for migration scenarios either from any other blogs or to any other blogs. Also a migration tool will be provided to migrate from famous blog engine (Wordpress, Blogger, Live Spaces, ... etc)
Extensible Vancouver Blog Engine is designed to be extended, which means it will provide both Client Side & Server side extensibility framework for developers to build their own gadgets that can provide value added services to the current blog engine functionality. [Less]