Microsoft Expression Web Videos and Tutorials
Tutorial: Creating and Editing Templates in Expression Web
Make global updates with Dynamic Web Templates in Expression Web. When you create a Web site with Dynamic Web Templates you can simplify your design work, create new pages faster, and make global updates.
Microsoft Expression Web is the newest contender in the professional Web design arena.
Created to handle the most complex CSS layouts, help you create dynamic ASP.NET sites, and conform to Web standards so your pages look great in all Web browsers, Expression Web has all you need to create great Web sites.
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Microsoft's Web Design Tools Include:
Expression Web: The newest contender in the Web design software arena, Microsoft’s Expression Web is a major improvement over the much-criticized FrontPage. Expression Web supports XHTML, CSS, XML, and ASP.NET.
Expression Blend: Use Microsoft’s advanced design tool for creating graphical interfaces that blend the features of both Web and desktop applications. With Expression Blend you can mix video, vector art, high-quality text, animation, pixel images, and 3D content to create user interfaces.
Expression Design: Microsoft’s new image editing tool combines many of the features you find in Photoshop and Illustrator into one comprehensive tool.
SharePoint Designer: To find out about the differences between SharePoint Designer and Expression Web, visit this page on the Microsoft site
Microsoft FrontPage: If you're still using FrontPage, it's time to upgrade to Microsoft's new and improved web design program Expression Web. Microsoft is no longer updating FrontPage and encourages all users to upgrade to Expression Web. Get a headstart on the transition from FrontPage to Expression Web with Janine's 3-hour training video designed to give FrontPage users a headstart in Expression Web.
Get started with these free Expression Web tutorials:
- Get the interface working for you. Customize it!
Discover five ways to customize the interface in Microsoft Expression Web. - Change link colors and remove the underline. Don’t let the default HTML settings determine your design options. Put CSS to work for you, and style your links to match your design.
- External Style Sheets. Save time with external style sheets for CSS designs in Expression Web.
- Center your CSS designs. Centering your page designs helps create the appearance that your designs fill the screen no matter what size the browser window, but if you want to center Div tags, you'll need to know this trick.
- Align images with CSS. Create image styles to align images by using the float option in CSS in Expression Web.
- Add keywords and descriptions for search engine optimization. You’ll never see the contents of Meta tags displayed in a Web page, but this hidden code can help improve your ranking in search engines.
- Create a rollover image. You can use the Swap Image behavior to create rollover images for links, navigation elements, and more.
- Make global updates with Dynamic Web Templates in Expression Web. When you create a Web site with Dynamic Web Templates you can simplify your design work, create new pages faster, and make global updates.
- Test for Web Accessibility. Whether your site is required to meet accessibility standards or not, making sure your site is accessible to all your visitors is always good practice.
- Test CSS with Expression Web's reporting features. Before you publish your site, make sure you have all of your styles in order.
Don't have Microsoft Expression Web? Take it for a test drive!
Download a free trial of Expression Web from the Microsoft site.
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