Expression Web

Add-Ins

V4 Add-Ins - Free add-ins for download.

Snippets

SP2 HTML5, Meta tag/Robots, Google +1, CDN and Mobile snippets download  Updated

Templates

Expression MVPs Tina Clarke and Pat Geary have released a set of new DWT templates for EW. www.frontpage-to-expression.com

I have a Mobile-Friendly responsive template for download

Cheryl Wise has a series of EW templates at by-expression.com/page/Templates

Microsoft Showcase of the new SP2 features

Description of SP2 - MS Knowledgebase Article

Tutorials for the new  SP2 'Snippets' panel and the JQuery snippets

V4 on Windows 8

The Windows 8 upgrade advisor incorrectly flags EW V4 as needing attention and suggests that an upgrade is available. More

Installation Issues? Although rare they can be frustrating. This post from Steve Guttman on the EW Team may help.

Password protecting pages and sites

JavaScript Form validation

Adding Commands to Toolbars and Menus 

Margins and Padding Altering Margins and Padding the simple way

Incremental Search (Find-as-you-type) 

Creating robots.txt files in Expression Web. Be aware of the text encoding.

Protecting email addresses from email harvesters

My Site won't validate with JavaScript. Why?

Adding a Quicktime movie to a page. EW doesn't yet support this directly but see this article on Alistapart.

JavaScript form validation Using FP to create it for you!

EW SuperPreview in EW V4 now allows local preview in IE6, IE7, IE8 and whichever version of FireFox you have installed, plus remote preview in IE9 (Beta), Chrome 7 and Safari 4   5 for Mac.

A standalone version of SuperPreview is also downloadable from Microsoft.com (250MB)

Note that the SuperPreview service will be withdrawn in June 2013.

First Steps with ASP.Net A simple introduction using a GridView

Expression Web and ASP.Net Simple Hand coding

ASP.Net Tips Applicable to Expression Web and Visual Studio

Validation Controls - Some tips on using them

ASP.Net Masterpages in Expression Web

Using the ASP.Net Web Admin Tool with Expression Web V2. See this blog from a member of the EW Test Team

With Version 2 Expression Web now supports PHP scripting and development. To preview php pages you need to install PHP and this extract from the Help files show how to set it up.

Setting up PHP 

An article from the RIA Development Center reviewing the PHP support in EW V2

Links to Resources Updated

Some background and resources about designing for the COMPLETE web. Updated

Prerequisites for Using Microsoft Expression Web

An article giving some detail if you're new to Expression Web

ExpressionIQ

A blog provided by MS Technical authors "dedicated to improving the quality and usability of the documentation for the Microsoft Expression family of products." Blog   Twitter Feed 

scriptjunkie{}

A Microsoft MSDN resource for serious web development

Expression Web Support Team

The team created a blog with solutions to installation issues plus other hints. It's well tagged to help you find relevant content. xweb support blog

Moving from FrontPage to Expression Web?

There are now lots of resources to help you do this. Start here:

The Expression forums have now moved to MSDN.

English Forum:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/web/threads

The French Expression Forum:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/fr-fr/expressionwebfr/threads

The German Forum at:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/de/expressionstudiode/threads

The Italian Forum at:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/it/expressionit/threads

Cheryl Wise also runs an independant EW Forum which has fewer posting issues than the MSDN forums, at:

ExpressionWebForum.com

A great new resource from SitePoint.

BuildMolbile.com

Has sections on developing responsive sites for use on mobiles, plus devloping apps for the three main platforms.

CSS Links and Tips 

ASP.Net code tips Updated

JavaScript Tips

Add MSDN/Technet/Expression 'Bookmarklets' to a page

Webmaster Tools - Resources for webmasters, SE tools etc

IE10 - Be Prepared

If you are running ASP.Net sites there's an important server update that you need to check for so that they work with IE10.

There's also a tweak you may need to make for previewing sites on IE10 from within EW.

More details on both of these.  Updated Nov 2012

asp:menu in IE8 The asp:menu control will  not display in IE8. There are two solutions. 1) Force the browser into IE7 compatibility mode or the better solution here which fixes the problem correctly.

IE Tester is a free web browser that allows you to have the rendering and JavaScript engines of IE10, IE9, IE8, IE7, IE6 and IE5 on Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8, as well as the installed version. It's a beta release so has bugs but is usable and free.

MS VPC Images for running old (or newer) versions of IE. If the tester above gives you problems or you'd prefer to run genuine versions see the MS VPC IMages

ASP.Net Menus in Safari

Browser Extensions for web development

FireFox-like search in IE   Find-as-you-type 

FireFox loading very slowly when you preview a page on localhost? See this blog entry from Dan Wahlin

Vista and IIS 7  See this article in CoDe Magazine

Initial set up of IIS7 on Vista

Introductory Video on setting up IIS7. An excellent tutorial showing how to set sites up to use IIS

MS FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions for Vista

IIS Doesn't run pages after installing Vista SP1

IIS7 Resources

Do you create HTML emails? If so you need to be aware of how Outlook 2007 renders them 

An excellent article on SitePoint about creating HTML emails

Sitemaps - See this blog entry from LiveSearch about Sitemap Autodiscovery, a technique the allows you to share a single XML site map with all the search engines at once. See also www.sitemaps.org for a good FAQ and details of the protocol and format.

See the Expression Web Extras toolbar for a sitemap creator.

On-line sitemap creation