Question: How can I have other pages outside the normal posting process use the blog's templates and formatting? In other words, I want to have some pages that are not part of the categories, or show up on the front page, or have a specific date associated with them. Examples include an About page, or pages for projects I'm working on.
A. See FormatPage macro in dasBlog on OmarShahine's blog. Note that the filename you use must include .format.html -- the ".format." in the name is essential.
A2. If you're doing the URL rewriting, be sure to use < and > where you see the angle brackets in Omar's examples. If you don't, web.config won't be valid XML and ASP.NET will throw an exception. The existing mappings in the standard web.config file can guide you. (Is it possible to use a <![CDATA[]]> section instead of escaped XML?)