MarkdownPad is an easy-to-use Markdown Editor for Windows. There is a free version that should meet all your needs. If you do use MarkdownPad a lot, you should purchase it as the price is very reasonable.
Once you have it downloaded, install the software and configure it so that it is the default editor for .md files.
To set MarkdownPad as your default Markdown editor,
- browse to the folder where the files that make up your site are. This is probably
documents\KS Foundation Site, it is the folder you created when setting up WebMatrix.
- you will see a folder called
user, open that page and go to the pages folder. In there you will find the 01.home folder which contains most of the content for your site.
- Once in the
01.home folder, right-click on the file called modular.mdand choose Open With from the menu that comes up. You will then choose MarkdownPad to open that file. MarkdownPad will now be the default editor for .md files.
- With MarkdownPad open go to
TOOLS>OPTIONS and in the Markdown tab tell it to ignore YAML Front-matter see image below.
In the next section, you will learn what Markdown is and how to edit the content for your site.
