Microsoft WebMatrix

Microsoft WebMatrix is an upside available from Microsoft development tool for websites on different platforms and frameworks. The user has the opportunity to develop his websites from scratch, edit existing websites to use ready-made templates or use on the Microsoft Web App Gallery several free, open- source frameworks like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, DotNetNuke. The installation and administration of these various content management, blog and e- shop systems works well is completely within WebMatrix. WebMatrix includes IIS Developer Express ( a development Web server ), ASP.NET ( a Web framework ), and Microsoft SQL Server Compact ( an embedded database ).

Supported frameworks and languages

In version 1.0, WebMatrix supports the following frameworks:

With WebMatrix Web pages using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and ASP.NET can be created. In addition, the so-called Razor syntax for ASP.NET Web pages is supported.

Features

Web projects that were created with WebMatrix can be directly edited in Microsoft Visual Studio development environment.

The program includes a small, embedded database called SQL Server Compact. No additional installation on the web server is required to use. Migrating to Microsoft SQL Server is supported.

WebMatrix provides with an option for automatic SEO reports. This provides information on how websites can be better designed. It allows the publishing of Web pages using FTP, FTPS and WebDeploy.