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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 / 3.5 / 4.0

Additionally, for intensive code development, Expression Web works perfectly alongside Microsoft Visual Studio 2008/2010®

Expression Web

Version 4

A fix for the licencing issues with V4 has been released as SP2a. http://support.microsoft.com  Nov-2011

SP2 for xWeb V4 is now available

Microsoft Showcase of the new SP2 features

Article on SP2 from Steve Guttman, MS Director for xWeb

Description of SP2 - MS Knowledgebase Article

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

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


V4 Add-Ins

 WebAssist have put their three add-ins for V4 on their 'Free Downloads' page. A PayPal add-in, a Bing Map add-in and a Bing Search add-in.

We hope they'll eventually bring out their excellent CSS Sculptor Add-In for V4.

Ajatix have also released new versions of their CSS Menu and Lightbox add-ins with V4 compatibility and also have a new Image/Banner Rotator add-in.

Free Add-Ins I've created using the new Add-In model

 

New Site Templates available

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



General EW Tips

EW Snippet Extensions

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

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.

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 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



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



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.

 

Design for the Mobile Web

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

Prerequisites for Using Microsoft Expression Web

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


Expression Web V Next

The Expression Team at Microsoft are keen to know which new features users want to see in future versions. You can vote for and add new suggestions at User Voice. 

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

The scriptjunkie{} Big List of Web Development Tools, Libraries, Projects and Books

Expression Web Support Team

The team have a regularly updated 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:

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.

EW SuperPreview

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)

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.

MS Expression Newsletter

View and Subscribe

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/

The French Expression Forum is at:

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

Expression Professional Subscription

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


General

The Mobile Web

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.



Hints and Tips

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



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.

IE Tester is a free web browser that allows you to have the rendering and JavaScript engines of IE9 Beta, 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.

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

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

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

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



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