{"id":2025,"date":"2011-01-17T10:22:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T14:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2011-01-17T10:22:36","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T14:22:36","slug":"looking-for-an-all-in-one-web-site-builder-now-theres-microsoft-webmatrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/17\/looking-for-an-all-in-one-web-site-builder-now-theres-microsoft-webmatrix\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking For An All-In-One Web Site Builder?  Now There&#8217;s Microsoft WebMatrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft recently introduced a new, no-cost tool called <strong>WebMatrix <\/strong>which &#8220;includes everything you need for website development&#8221;. \u00a0WebMatrix is intended to make the development of complete (and even complex) web sites simple for everyone, from the beginner to experienced developers.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, WebMatrix is a free application you download and install on your computer. \u00a0From there, you can build a site from scratch or use templates from over 40 open-source applications, like WordPress, Joomla, etc. \u00a0You can even create custom databases or build a shopping cart&#8230;with &#8220;helper&#8221; code for the most common tasks available with the click of a button.<\/p>\n<p>Since you&#8217;re building your entire site on your local machine (with WebMatrix automatically downloading any extra software you need for this), you can see real-time previews of your site without any file uploading required.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds great right? \u00a0Now you can build an entire site without hiring coders, graphic designers or purchasing third-party scripts. \u00a0Well, not so fast. \u00a0At first glance, it does look like you need at least a basic understanding of HTML to get anything done. \u00a0And if you want to do more advanced stuff, well, you&#8217;re going to need to know programming languages.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it is an interesting product&#8230;and depending upon what you want to do&#8230;it might be worth taking a closer look at. \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/web\/webmatrix\/\" target=\"_blank\">You can learn more from Microsoft&#8217;s site here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft recently introduced a new, no-cost tool called WebMatrix which &#8220;includes everything you need for website development&#8221;. \u00a0WebMatrix is intended to make the development of complete (and even complex) web sites simple for everyone, from the beginner to experienced developers. In a nutshell, WebMatrix is a free application you download and install on your computer. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[766,767,765],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}