Setup

Before you could run your Blog the first time you have to accomplish the following steps.

Edit Web.config

AppSettings

Go to the appSettings-section and enter your blog settings.

System.net

Go to the system.net-section and enter your email server.

Elmah

Go to the elmah-section and enter configure ELMAH if you like to use it.

ConnectionStrings

If you don't want to use the default SQL CE 4.0 database in 'App_Data', go to the connectionStrings-section and enter your database connection string.
The schema gets automatically generated by the Entity Framework, when the application is launched.
If you want to generate the schema manually use the DB-Schema.sql.
If you want to add some sample data use the DB-SampleData.sql.

If you have problems to deploy your SQL CE 4.0 database, read this post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3468981/how-to-deploy-sql-ce-4-ctp-to-shared-hosting

Authentication

Go to the authentication-section and enter your desired username and password for the administator account.

The password is encrypted with SHA1, use the following form to generate your password:

Your password:
Encrypted password: -

The default username and password is: 'admin'

MasterPage

Open 'Views/Shared/Site.Layout.cshtml' and set the page title and other metatags if you like.