Step by Step WebMatrix website development 2: Use WebMatrix (1)

The window shown in 1 is displayed when you run WebMatrix for the first time.

Figure 1 window displayed when WebMatrix is run for the first time

My website

Go to "my website" and you will be able to see the website you have designed.

Create a website from a Web Library

You can create a website from an open-source website system on the "Create a website from a Web Repository", such as a well-known WordPress or phpwind website. Click in. The window shown in 2 is displayed.

Figure 2 window displayed in "create a website from Web Repository"

As you can see, currently, WebMatrix provides 51 types of ready-made website frameworks, including blog, CMS (Content Management System), e-commerce, forums, libraries, tools, and Wiki, it covers the current website types. If you do not want to develop your own new website, it is a good choice to easily customize your website through the Web.

Create a website from a template

As the name suggests, "create a website from template" is to create a website from the template provided by WebMatrix. Clicking it will display the window shown in 3.

Figure 3 window displayed in "create a website from template"

As shown in figure 3, WebMatrix provides only five templates and an empty template. There are too few templates.

Create a website from a folder

Existing or ongoing websites can be added to WebMatrix through "create website from folder.

Next we will use the Web library to create an electronic website. Click "create website from Web library", select "e-commerce" in the category, and select "nopCommerce" in the list on the right ", enter "my store" in the website name and click "Next". The select database window shown in 4 is displayed.

Figure 4 select a database window

Only "SQL Server" can be selected in the window, but you can choose whether to install the database on a local computer or remote database. Without changing any options, click Next. The database Authentication mode setting window shown in Figure 5 is displayed.

Figure 5 Database Authentication Mode settings

Because "SQL Sever Express" is used locally and no sa password is set or other users are created during installation, we adopt "Windows integrated authentication ". Do not worry about the deployment because the remote database connection will be set during deployment. Click Next to see the authorization Confirmation window in Step 6.

Figure 6 Authorization Confirmation window

You can see from the window that the nopCommerce program and SQL Server Express 2008 R2 need to be downloaded from the network. Click I accept. The installation window shown in 7 is displayed.

Figure 7 installation window

After the installation is complete, the installation completion window shown in Figure 8 is displayed. Click OK. The design window shown in Figure 9 is displayed.

Figure 8 Installation completion window