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MELISA SCHOMAS. Congratulations, Melisa. You are the proud winner of the two 2009 CMA Music Festival tickets!

If you see this post it means that BlogEngine.NET 1.4.5 is running and the hard part of creating your own blog is done. There is only a few things left to do.

Write Permissions

To be able to log in to the blog and writing posts, you need to enable write permissions on the App_Data folder. If you’re blog is hosted at a hosting provider, you can either log into your account’s admin page or call the support. You need write permissions on the App_Data folder because all posts, comments, and blog attachments are saved as XML files and placed in the App_Data folder. 

If you wish to use a database to to store your blog data, we still encourage you to enable this write access for an images you may wish to store for your blog posts.  If you are interested in using Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, VistaDB, or other databases, please see the BlogEngine wiki to get started.

Security

When you've got write permissions to the App_Data folder, you need to change the username and password. Find the sign-in link located either at the bottom or top of the page depending on your current theme and click it. Now enter "admin" in both the username and password fields and click the button. You will now see an admin menu appear. It has a link to the "Users" admin page. From there you can change the username and password.  Passwords are hashed by default so if you lose your password, please see the BlogEngine wiki for information on recovery.

Configuration and Profile

Now that you have your blog secured, take a look through the settings and give your new blog a title.  BlogEngine.NET 1.4 is set up to take full advantage of of many semantic formats and technologies such as FOAF, SIOC and APML. It means that the content stored in your BlogEngine.NET installation will be fully portable and auto-discoverable.  Be sure to fill in your author profile to take better advantage of this.

Themes and Widgets

One last thing to consider is customizing the look of your blog.  We have a few themes available right out of the box including two fully setup to use our new widget framework.  The widget framework allows drop and drag placement on your side bar as well as editing and configuration right in the widget while you are logged in.  Be sure to check out our home page for more theme choices and downloadable widgets to add to your blog.

On the web

You can find BlogEngine.NET on the official website. Here you'll find tutorials, documentation, tips and tricks and much more. The ongoing development of BlogEngine.NET can be followed at CodePlex where the daily builds will be published for anyone to download.

Good luck and happy writing.

The BlogEngine.NET team

Facecard is pleased to announce that MATT KLEIN is the proud winner of the two 2009 Bonnaroo tickets. Congratulations, Matt. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our tent and signed up for their chance to win. There’s always next year!

The votes have been counted and we are pleased to announce that Stop Global Warming will receive the $10,000 donation. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our tent at Bonnaroo and voted!

We've hooked up with Bonnaroo to give you $5 off Bonnaroo Merchandise! Sign up today and you will get a $5 B-Roo Preward. What is a Preward? It is money put directly onto your card to use at specific vendors, such as (in this case) bonnaroo.com. So click here to get your facecard now. Make sure to put BROO2 in the referral code space. Also, Facecard thanks everyone who stopped by their tent to vote for a charity to win $10,000 and to win two tickets to next year's festival. To see if you are the lucky winner of the two 2009 tickets, go to facecard.com on June 27th.

 Check out our pictures from Bonnaroo at http://www.flickr.com/photos/facecard/. 

Join Facecard at Bonnaroo: stop by our tent just across from "That Tent" and order your card and learn more about the $5 Bonnaroo PREward – login to your account and check your dashboard today!!.  We are an official sponsor of this awesome four-day music event – check out details at www.bonnaroo.com

Facecard is Free to Get: activation and monthly membership fees are waived for our first 250,000 members; we are in the process of changing our terms and condition document to reflect the waiving of these fees

New Prewards Coming Soon: across the next few weeks, you will see Prewards from Baja Burrito, Jersey Mike's, Moe's Southwest Grill and Noshville – with many more to come…

New Rule When Buying Gas at the Pump: to purchase gas at the pump you need to have at least $75 on your card for what is called a "pre-authorization" – this just ensures that poeple don't pump and run; if you don't have enough to cover the $75, then just pay inside

The Facecard Member Blog provides a forum to:

• learn more about how to take full advantage of the benefits of your Facecard membership
• stay on top of important information regarding your membership including Preward partners added to the network
• provide feedback to the Facecard team on how to improve the member experience – contact us at https://members.facecard.com/comment.php