Most of the time you don't just want to have a website standing alone but you also want to hook it up with other services, social media integrations being the most basic example. Now we added the Feed Aggregator module to give you more options: It allows you to automatically sync content from RSS and Atom feeds to your DotNest site. So if you want to import content from other blogs, embed images from a remote image gallery or list videos from a YouTube channel, now you can do this easily.

There are a lot of modules available on DotNest, but not that many themes to style your sites. You asked for more, and we listened: the Basic Blog Theme by Márk Bartha is now available for all DotNest sites!

Algolia is a pretty neat hosted indexing/search service, it's a bit like Lucene in the cloud, but extremely fast. Now it's available for all DotNest sites!

There is a blog for the Hungarian Microsoft Student Partners developed by Márk Bartha and Dominik Földi here on DotNest which is a great proof of how far you can get using only the built-in DotNest features and Media Theme for theming. Microsoft Student Partners are a group of university students who are enthusiastic about Microsoft technologies, regularly organizing meetups and workshops in their country. This blog has been written in Hungarian but it's still a really good example of a nice and heavily customized DotNest website.

After introducing our (yet small) Support page the most important thing you'll notice that we retired the forum and introduced GitHub! More specifically you can add feature request and other ideas, ask questions, and post bugreports under the DotNest Support GitHub repository.

George Roubie, an Orchard developer from Greece runs his personal development blog on DotNest as Orchard Tricks. Now he has summarized how he has created his site in this detailed case study. Enjoy!

It was a recurring request we received from all of you people running Orchard sites on DotNest that it should be easier to build image carousels/sliders. So we listened and added a module to allow just that!

As announced recently a theme for Orchard community sites, as well as free custom domain usage for them is now available on DotNest. The first such community site to be moved to DotNest is the Orchard Project Indian Community website: Abhishek migrated the website from Azure to DotNest very quickly. You can read about his experiences in this blogpost!