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Links

The Expression Community Site

Expression Community

Expression Web Support Team Blog



MVP Sites

By Expression by Cheryl Wise, Microsoft MVP, Expression

First Expression by Thomas Brunt, Microsoft MVP, Expression

Any Expression by Tina Clarke, Microsoft MVP, FrontPage

Expression FrontPage by Joe Rohn, Microsoft MVP, Expression

Spider Web Woman Designs by Kathleen Anderson, Microsoft MVP, FrontPage

Genealogy Computer Tips and Tutorials by Patricia Geary, Microsoft MVP, FrontPage



Blogs

Expression Web Team Blog 

The Expression Designers Blog  Covers all the Expression products

Devi on Expression Web  Devindra Chainani - Group Program Manager, EW

Andrew's Blog Andrew Jewsbury - Program Manager EW

Wayne Smith's Blog  Musings about Expression Web and Rick Wakeman



Discussion Groups, Lists and Newsgroups

The new MS Expression Forums

By Expression Web Designer

Any Expression Ezine on Yahoo

Expression Talk



Add-Ins, Components etc

Featured Add-Ins and Downloads on the MS Expression site

Ajatix CSS Drop Down Menu - Integrated CSS menu generator. The new version supports EW V1, V2 and V3SP1.  New

FP Bot Macro - puts the Database Results Wizard and Photo Gallery back into EW

Eric Mayer's CSS Sculptor for EW from WebAssist - Super add-in for creating CSS layouts. V1 and V2 only sadly.

Expression Web Extras - An integrated Google Sitemap builder, Robots.txt builder and more. V1 and V2 with a V3SP1 version due out in Jan 2010

Jimco Spawn - Pop-up Window generator. Versions for EW V1 and V2 with a V3SP1 version due out in Jan 2010.

MS Schema add-on for validating pages intended for use as HTML emails to ensure they'll work in Outlook 2007. (Only works in EW V1)



EW Specific Tools

Contact Form Generator for Expression Web - Free on-line tool by CTRFX that generates an aspx contact form.

EW Cleaner - From MVP Steve Easton. Cleans out the web cache and temp files that can slow EW down; plus other functions.

MS EW VBA Reference - V1 version



EW Snippets

The Snippets in EW can be added to easily by openning the Snippets dialog using Ctrl-Enter and then selecting "Customise list.."

They can also be extended by adding extra Snippet definitions. The following are four such extensions.

Lorem Ipsum Filler Text allows you to add varying numbers of Lorem Ipsum text to a page.

JS Code Snippets adds links to the Google Ajax Libraries

WordPress Template Tools adds php tags for WordPress

Comment Snippets adds 5 snippets for commenting out code



Templates and Tools

Need a template? See this Open Source site OSWD.org

Free CSS Templates freeCSStemplates.org

SuCasa Template trading site from WebAssist. Get free templates and also sell your own.

CSS Templates and layout tools, see the CSS links page

CSS Menu Generator, Sitemap Generator, Template Generator and more. The Menu Generator produces pure CSS menus without any JavaScript that are compatible with FF, Opera, Safari, Chrome and IE6 upwards.

PHP Form Script Generator - From MVP James Huggins

FavIcon Generator from Dynamic Drive

Accessibility Tools and Wizards A good collection, use them as they are or modify the results. Useful learning tool.

Create Accessible pop-up windows  One of the above tools

URL Encode Generator - if a url has spaces or special characters it will need to be URL Encoded before it will work in a browser. You can do it by hand but this tool is a lot easier.

HTML Character Entity Encoding - get the ©'s etc right using this table

Or encode a block of text using this tool. (Useful for displaying code on a page).

Cross Browser Multipage Photo Gallery in CSS - Stu Nichols has a photo gallery using just CSS, that validates.

Visual Lighbox a free tool to create photo albums based on the Lightbox script in a few clicks without any coding.

Need to convert code from C# to VB or vice versa? See this Toolbox on DeveloperFusion



On-Line References

Micosoft® Expression Web Wiki

Learn about it and contribute your knowledge and experience by creating new topics or revising the existing ones.

 

SitePoint now has comprehensive on-line references for CSS, JavaScript and HTML.

These are excellent searchable resources that cover both basic and in-depth detail of the subject.

http://reference.sitepoint.com/

 

W3C List of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools

Not exhaustive but a useful list nevertheless.

SSW Rules and Standards

An interesting and useful list of rules and standards for lots of topics from 'Rules for Happy Clients' to 'Rules for better Website Graphics'.

The HTML Float

A great tool that demonstrates the effects of 'float' and 'clear' in HTML in real time as they are altered on the page.