All Entries Tagged With: "Expression Web"
Manage websites using hidden metadata files in Microsoft Expression Web
In case of local websites, when you update a DWT (Dynamic web Tempate) and save it, only the open pages that are linked to the DWT are updated. Closed pages will not be updated. But if ‘Manage the web site using hidden metadata files‘ option is turned on, then with the help of the hidden [...]
Expression Web Community Toolbar
What is an Expression Web Community Toolbar? The Expression Web Community Toolbar is a tool which makes it very easy to access all important Expression Web related links and resources. This toolbar is created by fellow MVPs Tina Clarke and Pat Geary and is free for download. The toolbar includes all of the Expression Web [...]
Make Empty Containers visible in Expression Web
Some time back I came across a question in the Expression Web Forum, that when an empty <div> is dragged from the toolbox and dropped onto a page in the Design view, the div is invisible. Some of you may have come across this too. Now there isn’t any rocket science behind this. Its just [...]
SlapShot for Expression Web 4
No I haven’t made any spelling mistake neither are you making any mistake in reading the title. It is SlapShot and not Snapshot that I am talking about here. Some of you must have already used the Snapshot Panel, that was introduced in Expression Web 3. For them, the SlapShot panel would seem familiar. But [...]
Where can I find the Publishing options in Expression Web 4?
I came across a question from a user where her said he could not publish files from the Site View, the publish option is not visible. Unlike Expression Web 3 or for that matter even EW2, Expression Web 4 offers various ways to access Publishing options. They are available on: a. The Standard Toolbar b. [...]
Free Expression Web Template for Small Business
The ‘Small Business’ template as I call it, is a simple website template, built using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and DWT (Dynamic Web Template). The template suits best for a small business firm as well as for personal use. The template is completely customizable, so you can change the appearance as you like. The entire web [...]
Improved Help menu in Expression Web 4
Yeah I know what you are thinking! What’s the big deal about the help menu? I agree in earlier versions of Expression Web, the only useful option in the Help menu was the ‘User Guide’. I too used the help menu only to access the ‘User Guide’, when required. But it is a big deal [...]
Highlight invalid HTML in Expression Web
Some times, while coding your web pages, you must have observed red squiggly lines in your code. This is how Expression Web points out invalid or incompatible HTML in your code. It is advisable that you check your code for compatibility and validity before you publish it. Expression Web has different tools that offer to [...]
Close All Pages command in Expression Web
Just as the Save All command lets you save multiple pages at one go, Close All Pages command lets you close multiple pages at once. The command can be found under the Window menu, see below: When you invoke the Close All Pages command, Expression Web will close all the saved pages and throw a [...]
Save All command to my rescue!
I was working on a website last evening. I created a dynamic web template (dwt) and then generated pages from that template. As I progressed, I saw myself making some changes to the template every now and then and then saving it to update all the pages that were attached to the template. After doing [...]
