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Welcome!

Microsoft® Expression® Web is a class-leading tool for professional web design.

It brings together all the elements needed for:

  • Standards-based Web sites
  • Pre-Built CSS-based layouts
  • Extensive CSS formatting and management
  • Rich data presentation
  • Powerful support for ASP.NET 2.0

Additionally, for intensive code development, Expression Web works perfectly alongside Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008®

Expression Web

Expression Web V2

To download the trial version go to the Expression Home Page on Microsoft.com and use the 'Try Now' link. There's currently a competitive upgrade deal available too.



General EW Tips

 

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

If you get Error 1406 this will help New

Password protecting pages and sites Recent

JavaScript Form validation Recent

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

EW compared to Visual Web Developer Express 2008

My Site won't validate with JavaScript. Why?

Designing a Wordpress Blog theme using Expression Web

Previewing pages in the Safari Browser See this entry from the Expression Web Team Blog

Removing the Byte Order Mark (BOM) in EW V1

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

JavaScript form validation Using FP to create it for you!



Expression Web and ASP.Net

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 VS2005 Updated

Validation Controls - Some tips on using them Updated

ASP.Net Masterpages in Expression Web

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



Expression Web and PHP

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 New



EW Add-Ins

There are now some excellent add-ins for Expression Web.

Add-ins / Add-ons



EW Resources

Links to Resources Updated

 

MVP Blog Badge.

 

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Repeatedly asked to install Silverlight 1.0 with the Total Training DVDs?

This blog from the Expression Web Support Team at MS shows how to get around this issue. June 09

Using an Expression Media Photo Gallery in EW

This article from Anita Oakley on the Ex Media team shows how to bring an Ex Media Gallery in EW. April 09

EW SuperPreview

Released at MIX09 EW SuperPreview will allow you to test your sites in a number of browsers in a single interface. It has measurement and DOM inspection tools. The current beta only allows comparison between it's built-in version of IE6 and whatever other version of IE you have installed. Eventually it will work with other installed browsers and also go off into the Cloud to render in other versions of IE and possibly even Mac browsers. But hey, even the current comparison with IE6 is worth using! March 09

The beta is downloadable from Microsoft.com (250MB)

EW Vista Macro fix

Many users running EW V2 on Vista found that macros could not be run, including the Web Extras Add-in from Office Power. This update solves the problem. Dec 08

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Expression Web Wiki

A huge resource with wide range of articles which can be edited and added to by users. Try it out!

Expression Web Forum

The Expression family now has a complete set of new discussion forums. Check out the EW forum at:

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

Expression Professional Subscription

The Designers equivalent to MSDN, including the Expression Suite, Visual Studio, Windows XP & Vista and more.


General

Hints and Tips

CSS Links and Tips Updated

ASP.Net code tips 

JavaScript Tips

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

Webmaster Tools - Resources for webmasters, SE tools etc Updated



Browser Issues

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. New

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

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

Running Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 on the same box Recent

ASP.Net Menus in Safari

Browser Extensions for web development

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

What's new in IE8 ?

IE8 Compatibility blog entry from Mike Ormond Recent

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



IIS Issues

Vista and IIS 7  See this article in CoDe Magazine

MS FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions for Vista

IIS Doesn't run pages after installing Vista SP1

IIS7 Resources



HTML Emails

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

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