Websense says Potentially Damaging Content - help!

As I wrote a few days ago, I've been having issues with Websense marking this BlogEngine.NET blog as Potentially Damaging Content. This kept me from accessing the blog from my day job, and made me wonder who else might be unable to read it. In particular, I worried that potential clients would encounter a Websense warning and reject me from consideration.

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Four years ago, BlogEngine developer Al Nyveldt put together a Webcast showing how to create a BlogEngine 1.1 theme, step-by-step. I watched the first part of the Webcast, but was disappointed to find the originally posted version froze about halfway through.

Yesterday, I noticed that Nyveldt posted an update a few days later, with a link to a Windows Media (WMV) version of the BlogEngine Theme video. I don't know how I missed it when I first became interested in BlogEngine, but there it is.

The download is 158 MB, or 194 MB unzipped. The video is almost 25 minutes long, and gives a good idea of Nyveldt's workflow.

A number of things have changed since BlogEngine 1.1. However, I plan to watch the video for inspiration on creating themes for the current (2.5) version of BlogEngine.

BlogEngine.Net 2.5 released June 29, 2011

As I noted in my previous post about Wordpress, I currently use BlogEngine.Net on my site. I like the power of Microsoft's ASP.NET Web environment, and BlogEngine.Net is a great open source implementation of that power, IMO.

Recently, BlogEngine 2.5 was released. I'm looking forward to setting up a new blog using 2.5, and ideally upgrading this blog (the one you're reading now) from 2.0 to 2.5.

The biggest change from BlogEngine 2.0 to 2.5 is the ability to run multiple blogs from a single installation of BE. A similar multi-blog capability was added to Wordpress 3.0 last year. Running multiple blogs from a single installation means easier data backups, and makes things easier when it's time to update the BlogEngine (or Wordpress) software itself.

Besides the new multi-blog capability, BlogEngine 2.5 adds a direct interface to the blogengine.net online Gallery. This will make it a bit easier to add new themes and/or extensions from the gallery to a BE installation. Of course, it's not all that hard to add new features or themes even without the Gallery integration, which is fortunate, since the integration is new and somewhat experimental.

edited to add: read more about the BlogEngine 2.5 features here and here. Besides the multi-blog capability and Gallery integration, BlogEngine 2.5 has been upgraded to .NET 4.0 and supports Razor themes. It comes with one Razor theme, Garland-Revisited, which can be seen on Ben Amada's blog.

Get a free BlogEngine.Net 2.5 blog at Bloglobe.com

Most people start their first blog on Blogger, a free blog hosting service provided by Google. Others start on Wordpress.com, which offers free blogs using Wordpress software with a choice of some standard Wordpress themes. Now, there's a free blog service based on BlogEngine.Net 2.5 - Bloglobe.com. If you want to set up a quick blog just to get your feet wet in blogging, or if the name you wanted was already taken on blogspot.com (Blogger) or Wordpress.com, you have another alternative.