Drupal and Microsoft? Yes!

In March, DrupalCon is coming to Denver. I am excited to attend. The speaker and session list is rich, and I am happy Microsoft continues its dedication to part of this community.

Web Matrix

Microsoft WebMatrix makes it easy for anyone to create a Drupal site. Acquia Drupal or Drupal 7 available from the Web Application Gallery is fully tested to run on WebMatrix and includes our URL Rewrite module for “Clean URL's”. Customize your site easily and then publish it on the internet from a wide choice of hosting service providers.

Microsoft and the Drupal Community are teaming up to provide definitive and deep guidance on the installation, configuration and tuning of Drupal on the Microsoft Web Platform. Read more for detailed technical information for installing Drupal on IIS which will also include guidance on tuning Drupal for performance on Windows and IIS. You can also ask questions at the Drupal on IIS Forum

Read more here.

Getting started with Drupal and WebMatrix

My colleague Developer Evangelist, Alice Pang, in California wrote a compelling article on how to use Microsoft’s free WebMatrix tool to get started with Drupal.

Last week I had the opportunity to present to the LA Drupal group on building a Drupal site with WebMatrix.  The session was also recorded, but unfortunately there was a problem with the audio.  Although you can look forward to a recording with audio, hopefully this preliminary version gives you a good idea of how to get started with Drupal and WebMatrix.  In the meantime, here are some easy-to-follow screen shot instructions and clear code snippets from of the beginning of my demo.

Read the article here.

Customize WebMatrix to enhance Drupal

Continuing in her series on WebMatrix and Drupal, Alice Pang, my colleague Developer Evangelist in California discusses how to use the WebMatrix dashboard to enhance user experience.

Want to enhance the user experience for an application in WebMatrix?  Task-based extensibility (TBEX) allows you to customize the WebMatrix user interface for a particular application.  Here I’m going to show you how to modify the dashboard locally with the Acquia Drupal application from the Web Gallery.  You can also make other modifications like adding a ribbon or including application-specific IntelliSense.

Read the article here.

Drupal for Windows

Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems and allows you to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Drupal runs great on the Microsoft Web Platform. Microsoft is teaming up with the Drupal Community to make using Drupal on Windows even easier and Microsoft along with its hosting partners is working to make hosting Drupal on Windows a great choice for everyone. The Commerce Guys distribution will soon add their full Commerce Kickstart features.

More on Drupal for Windows.

Build a Site in 15 Minutes

See how, in less than 15 minutes, to create a web site with WebMatrix and Drupal, changing the theme, adding and using a module, and writing some code to integrate Facebook…it’s that easy with WebMatrix!

View the article here.