Microsoft Expression Web has some pre-defined set of style sheets which you can directly use in your document. There are in all 13 style sheets that are written for different purposes like Bars, Blocks, Capsules, Expedition, Highway, Poetic, Sweets and such others. Each of these style sheets has a unique style, with headings, background, font styles, etc.

How to add a style sheet to your page?

1. Go to File menu > New > Page.

 

2. The ‘New Page’ window would then be prompted.

 

In the leftmost column of the window, choose Style Sheets. The center column would then list down all the available predefined style sheets. As you select a style sheet from the list, the top portion in the right most column, gives a brief description of that style.

3. You can choose one that may suit your page requirements and click OK.
4. A style sheet will now be opened in your main workspace with a name ‘Untitiled_1.css’.
5. Now you need to save this css file in the same location of your document. Give an appropriate name to it.
6. Link this file in your page by following these instructions:
   • In Apply Styles or Manage Styles panel (task panes in versions earlier than 3) click on ‘Attach Style Sheet…’.

    

   • In the Attach Style Sheet window browse to the location of css file. You can choose attach it as a link or import it into your current page, selected page or all HTML pages. In this case choose ‘Current Page’ and as ‘Link’.

    

   • Click OK. The css file will now be attached to your page.
7. Now see your page being styled as per the styles defined in the attached style sheet.

You may want to redirect to a web page from another for some reason. Say your site is down for maintenance and you do not want the readers to see an error or a blank page. In such case, you can redirect them to a meaningful web page, for instance another web site or a page that displays a message for the readers. Behaviors let you achieve this in simple way.

1. Go to Panels menu and choose ‘Behaviors’. The Behaviors panel would be pinned next to the Apply and Manage Styles panels.

NOTE: In earlier versions of EW these panels were known as task panes.

2. Click on Insert and choose ‘Go to URL’ from the drop menu.

 

3. The Go To URL dialog box would be prompted as shown below:

 

Enter the URL or browse to the file and click OK.

4. The behavior would then be visible in the Behaviors panel as shown here:

 

The Events list lets you set the event on which the action (Go To URL) should occur. Choose an event. For our example, where we want to redirect to different page since our site is down for maintenance, we would choose ‘onload event’.

5. Save your page and preview in the browser.