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Useful Resources for Microsoft Expression Web

Useful Resources for Microsoft Expression Web

Here are some websites and blogs that offer very informative tutorials, articles, tips, tricks, trainings, ebooks and other resources for Microsoft Expression Web. http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/cc197140.aspx for tutorials, videos, free Expression Web templates. http://any-expression.com - is owned by Tina Clarke, who is a fellow Expression Web MVP. The site features plenty of tutorials, tips, ebooks on Expression Web and FrontPage. [...]

Customize the appearance of Code and Design View in Microsoft Expression Web 3

Customize the appearance of Code and Design View in Microsoft Expression Web 3

As you create a new page and start adding content to it, or when you open an existing page, the way it appears in Code view or Design view is laid down by Expression Web. For instance, in Code view normal text appears in black, HTML comment appears in gray, in Design View Layout table [...]

Apply Jump Menu Go Behavior in Microsoft Expression Web 2

Apply Jump Menu Go Behavior in Microsoft Expression Web 2

Jump Menu Go behavior lets you associate a button (Go button) with a jump menu. In that case a jump menu should already exist in the document. Though a jump menu does not need a go button to execute, selecting an item from the jump menu causes a URL to load on its own. But [...]

Create scrollable area using CSS in Microsoft Expression Web 2

Create scrollable area using CSS in Microsoft Expression Web 2

A scrollable area is where content can be presented and can be scrolled through. When you have a lot of content to be presented in a particular section, it is beneficial to add a scrollable area, without occupying much space on the page and keeping it organized. You can always add a textarea or use [...]

Speedier coding by using Code Snippets in Microsoft Expression Web 2

Speedier coding by using Code Snippets in Microsoft Expression Web 2

A code snippet is a piece of code which is reusable. Microsoft Expression Web 2 has some preloaded code snippets for your use, but you can create your own snippets too. Code snippets save you a lot of time in coding and prevent typing errors as well. So whenever you want to repeat a piece [...]

Separate your content with horizontal rules in Microsoft Expression Web 2

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

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

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

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 [...]

Is there a simple way to overlap Images in Microsoft Expression Web?

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 [...]