It was year 2003, to be more precise, end of may 2003. Daniele went surfing on the internet in search of a Content Management System that he could run on his windows web server dBlog.it.

The search was useless and just gave him english-speaking results,commercially sold products and platform not compatible with the technical specs he wanted to comply with. So, trusting that some crazy guy would have read his not really grammatically correct words, he laid the foundations of a new project.

As soon as everything started to take shape,a thought hit him: what if this would help others to solve all these problems? A platform for blog in italian, user friendly to be used, fast to be install, open source and for free. Cool! So he re-started with version 1.0, publishing his first post on piattaforma dBlog 1.0 on june 16th, 2003.

dBlog, was born, where "D" stands for Daniele, Dynamic, Database, and for whatever words come to mind for this initial :-), starting from a personal need to continue thanks to a simple passion, and share with many others. He would have liked to tell you that he started the develpment in a garage, as many of the "big shots" projects, unfortunately that day there was the family SUV in it. That's the shit.

Requirements

To be able to use dBlog CMS Open Source it is necessary to have a web server (IIS) based on Microsoft Windows 2000 or 2003 following with support ASP technology; in case of third parties hosting (provider) it is strictly necessary to verify:



1. folder "public" with script (write) permits

2. folder "mdb-database" with script (write) permit, no download ones

3. e -Mail element such as CDOSys, CDONTS e ASPEMail



To get more info about requirements and about possibilities of use you can look up section Features.



Licence

dBlog CMS Open Source platform is distributed with GPL licence, whose complete text is available in the software package and partly explained in section Open source of this site. Therefore dBlog CMS Open Source can be used in the fields provided in the licence itself, the one and only additional duty is to add the official site link dBlog.it on each page (in its own standard version, this link can be found at the right bottom side of each page, but can be easily moved everywhere you want). Copyright of downloaded standard version remains mine.

Support

To be always up-to-date regarding site news and software upgrades you can subscribe to Newsletter, in case you need help or technical support you can use pubblic Forum . Once your blog is activated remember to link it to the Directory so that you can improve your rating in the search engines and make it public.

Hiveminds Opinion

One of the reasons that you might not have heard of or seen Dblog much is because the licensing requires that you place a link on the software. While many think that this will give them credit and make for popularity it does in fact do the opposite. If you look at projects like Joomla and Drupal where no such license is used you see that they still get tens of thousands of links without such a scheme.

Happy Publishing!

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