All Entries Tagged With: "Expression Web"
Working with line breaks in Expression Web
The basic formatting techniques like Line breaks, white spaces and indentation make your web content stand out and look clean and neat. The HTML <br> tag is used to add line breaks in your page. See below: marks denote line breaks. To view line breaks or other Formatting marks in Expression Web, go to View [...]
Get rid of the dotted border from a focused hyperlink
You must have observed this behavior that when you click on a hyperlink it is surrounded with a dotted border as shown in the image below: I observed this behavior in Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.0 and above. I also tested the behavior in Safari 4.0.4 and Google Chrome 4, but they did not [...]
Add or remove metadata in Expression Web
Microsoft Expression Web requires metadata to maintain a whole bunch of cross-page dependencies features like hyperlinks, DWTs and some site reports. Metadata is stored in hidden folders. This prevents them from any unintentional modification, deletion or any such action on the metadata. There are two types of folders: a. _vti_cnf folders – stores information about [...]
Expression Web 3 Service Pack 2 Released!
Microsoft Expression Web 3 Service Pack 2 has been released and is available for download. It has general improvements to the application. The biggest improvement of them all is the SuperPreview support for Firefox 3.6. We all have been waiting for this one for a long time. Here is a list all that SP2 has [...]
Publishing Settings in Expression Web
Microsoft Expression Web supports different publishing settings. You can choose to work on your own computer and then publish your site/ changes to your site onto the remote production web server or you can work on a remote staging server and publish on the production web server or work directly on the remote production web [...]
Creating Named Anchors or Bookmarks in Expression Web
A hyperlink is created using the HTML anchor tag. With hyperlinks you can link to another web page, document (like spreadsheets, pdf, etc), image or a part of the same document. Named Anchors, also called Bookmarks let you create such hyperlinks to specific sections of your page. Any hyperlink within a page will have two [...]
Optimize source code of a site and web page in Expression Web
With code optimizing options in Microsoft Expression Web you can remove unnecessary code from your web pages. This helps you keep your code clean and also reduces the size of your files which in turn affects the loading time of the page. You can choose when to optimize your pages. If you optimize your code [...]
Positioning Toolbar in Microsoft Expression Web 3
You can position elements on a page by setting their CSS-based properties in CSS Properties panel or the Positioning Toolbar. The Quick Tag Selector menu also has the Positioning option to help you quickly and precisely set the positioning style for a tag. Here we will explore the Positioning Toolbar. Positioning toolbar can be made [...]
Add a background sound to your web page in Microsoft Expression Web
You must have come across websites that play sound (some music) while you are visiting it. Some design sites, personal sites of stylists or e-cards and gift sites usually have such background sound, sometimes on the home page or to all the pages. Personally, I find it irritating. Though you can actually specify how many [...]
Set HTML rules to help search text in your code in Microsoft Expression Web
We often use the Find and Replace tool (CTRL + F) to search for words, in our context, tags, elements, properties and so on in our page. But the same dialog box offers a cool feature of setting HTML rules in your search. These HTML rules let you add conditions as to where in your [...]
