Ok so as I implemented my blog software for this site I had to figure out a way to display error messages to the user.  For example if I had a required field that the user didn't fill in I wanted to alert the user to fill in that field. My first thought was that MVC should have something to handle this, so I was going to start there.  Unfortunately, after looking around a lot online, I realized that at the time MVC didn't have that.  So what to do? Well I have a base cla