Archive for May, 2009
Separate your content with horizontal rules in Microsoft Expression Web 2
A Horizontal rule or line can be used to divide or separate your content and organize it well. IT could be used to separate pieces of text or images. To get an idea of how a horizontal rule would look, take a look at this image: To add a Horizontal rule (<hr> tag in HTML), [...]
Defining a font family in Microsoft Expression Web 2
As designers we always prefer to define a font family for different elements of a page instead of defining a single the font. A font family is a set of three or more fonts for displaying text. If a single font defined in the page is not installed on the viewers system, then the default [...]
Set the default HTML file extension in Microsoft Expression Web 2
A variety of pages can be created in Microsoft Expression Web like HTML, ASPX, PHP, XML, so on. You can set a default HTML file extension for all new documents that are created in Microsoft Expression Web 2. Follow these steps: Go to Tools menu > Choose Page Editor Options. Switch to the Authoring tab. [...]
Add or Remove Byte order marks (BOM) in Microsoft Expression Web 2
A Byte Order Mask (BOM) is a sequence of reserved bytes embedded in some documents that use the Unicode encoding like UTF-8 and other Unicode Transport Formats (UTFs). These bytes are interpreted differently depending on the machines, viz. “big-endian” like Sun and Apple or “little-endian” like Windows and many Linux machines. BOM specifies the byte [...]
Why does a CSS box model need a hack?
The CSS 1 specification by W3C that was released in 1996 stated that the width and height of a block level element should determine the visible content area. Any padding, margins and borders that are applied to it at any time are then added to the box width and height. This meant that any padding, [...]
Is there a simple way to overlap Images in Microsoft Expression Web?
Of course there is! There may be many ways to do this, but the simplest way I found out was by nesting div tags and setting background images to them. Lets us do that. In the Design view, add a div on the page by dragging it from the Toolbox task pane. This is where [...]
Add a command to toolbar and menu bar in Microsoft Expression Web 2
Toolbars are quite handy if used intelligently. Instead of browsing through the long menus and submenus before you find the right command, if you often use a command then why not add it on the toolbar. To add commands to toolbars Right click on the toolbar and choose ‘Customize’. In the Customize window, switch to [...]
Embed You Tube Video in your Microsoft Expression Web Pages
Long back in 1990s it was a challenge to embed videos into your web pages. But now most third party gadgets have made it quite simple to add a video into your page. Similarly you can have a You Tube video embedded into your Microsoft Expression Web web page. All you have to do is [...]
