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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 Released 1st May

Expression Web V2 is now available and there's currently a competitive upgrade deal available too.

To download the trial version go to the Expression Home Page on Microsoft.com and use the 'Try Now' link.


General EW Tips

JavaScript Form validation New

Adding Commands to Toolbars and Menus  Recent

Margins and Padding Altering Margins and Padding the simple way

Incremental Search (Find-as-you-type)  Recent

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. New



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 

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  New



EW Add-Ins

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

Add-ins / Add-ons



EW Resources

Links to Resources

 

 

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MS Expression Newsletter

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Expression Web Wiki - Mar 2008

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

New Expression Forums - Feb 2008

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.

MIX: UK

11-12 September 2007. Videos of the sessions are available at: www.microsoft.com/uk/mix07/

ReMix UK 08

18-19 September 2008, Brighton UK. Registration now open at: www.microsoft.com/uk/remix08/  New

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

IE Tester is a free web browser that allows you to have the rendering and JavaScript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7, IE6 and IE5 on Windows XP or Vista, as well as the installed version. It's an alpha release so has bugs but is usable and free. New

Running Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 on the same box New

ASP.Net Menus in Safari Recent

Browser Extensions for web development

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

Ready for IE7?

And how about IE8 ?? Beta available for download

What's new in IE8 ?

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



IIS Issues

Ready for 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 Revised



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