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I haven't spoke about subtext for a while so I thought I would throw together a quick 10 things you can do with subtext. 

I received an email from Microsoft the other day about various beta's of which I noticed the Windows Live Writer. This reminded me about seeing a couple of ad hoc posts about it's compatibility with many of the blogging engines out there including subtext so I thought I would take the plunge.

There are blogging engines/CMS's out there that have built-in functionality to prevent or certainly reduce the amount of spam being pushed on to a site via comments/trackbacks or from a contact form. If your not using software that prevents these invasions then there are free components out there you should be able to integrate very easily or you can implement some simple methods.

Applying a different background colour to each texbox or a web control that supports the background attribute can give you an area to play with that can "jazz" up a form/page. Some modifications can be made so that the colour can be applied to border, fore colour or even text colur if the control supports it.

Welcome to my first article discussing the creation of a skin within the .NET blogging engine subtext. If you have downloaded and installed subtext you will have noticed that it comes with several pre-defined skins. While the pre-defined skins are varied and could easily be used it's sometimes necessary to create your own. The initial template will be styled to work in Fire Fox 2. I will be covering "styling for a specifc" browser in another article.