Incorporating a Blog into existing MVC3 site

Hello,

I want to add a blog to my existing MVC3 site. Having looked at various solutions I'm leaning to Orchard (MVC also, good support community), bogengine.net (lightweight) and Wordpress (many say best overall).

So, here go some newbie questions...

One, I would appreciate any opinions as to which of these is most suitable.

The documentation seems to focus on creating these as standalone sites and not as part of an existing project. I'm trying to figure out how to use these in my existing site, if that is possible. What do I code in my own project to call up the blog when someone clicks the link? Do I set a reference to (for example) Orchard and then have my controller return an Orchard view, if that's possible? Does anyone have code samples for doing this?

To achieve a consistent look am I going to have to duplicate my css inside the (for example) Orchard project?

I have read in the forums about performance issues when running (for example) Orchard in the same account as my web site. The site is low volume right now and if the blog gets to ten visits a day I'll be thrilled. Does that sound like a problem performance wise?

Thanks for any advice!

Randy

 

Thanks Bruce!

I'll give blogengine a try.

Randy