All Entries Tagged With: "Expression"
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 [...]
Float an image and wrap text around it in Microsoft Expression Web
CSS property float is used to position (float) a block level element within another element. You can float block level elements like divisions <div>, paragraphs <p>, images <img /> and lists <ul> to left or right of the page. Float is widely used to align image and wrap text around it in a same container. [...]
Automatically Save Web pages before previewing in Microsoft Expression Web 2
I have a habit of previewing my web pages each and every time I make any change to them. Then I key in CTRL + S or choose ‘Save’ from the common toolbar and then hit F12 or ‘Preview’ from common toolbar; to preview the page. You need to save your web page before you [...]
Using z-index property to stack layers in Microsoft Expression Web 2
What makes Layers so popular is their ability to overlap each other and create certain effects. You can have images and text that could be placed over each other. The z-index property is used to set the stack order of an element. So an element with a greater stack order (higher z-index value) is always [...]
Rearrange commands on toolbars and menu in Microsoft Expression Web 2
Rearrange Commands tool lets you do all possible actions to customize your toolbars and menus the way you want them. You can rearrange the commands on the toolbar to: · Add, remove, reorder the commands on the menu bar and toolbar. · Modify the name, image and keyboard shortcut associated with a menu command or [...]
What is Incremental Search in Microsoft Expression Web 2
Incremental search is a user interface interaction method to progressively search for and filter through text. In Expression Web, Incremental Search, searches the text as you type, and as soon as a match is found it immediately presents it to you. Incremental Search gives you an advantage, to stop short of typing the entire word [...]
Dynamic Web Template toolbar in Microsoft Expression Web 2
A Dynamic Web Template toolbar provides a quick means to navigate and manage editable regions in a DWT. To open the toolbar, right click on any toolbar and choose Dynamic Web Template. The Dynamic Web Template consists of following tools and buttons: 1. Region box – lets you choose a region, like body. 2. [...]
Create your own toolbar in Microsoft Expression Web 2
To create a new toolbar in Microsoft Expression Web 2, follow these steps: 1. Right click anywhere on any toolbar and choose Customize or click on the down arrow on any toolbar, select Add or Remove buttons and then choose Customize. 2. This would launch the Customize dialog box as shown below: 3. Click on [...]
Automatically open last edited website in Microsoft Expression Web 2
To set up Microsoft Expression Web 2 to automatically open your last edited website, you need to change the startup options for Expression Web. Go to Tools > Application Options… to open the Application Options dialog box as shown below: On the General tab, under the Startup section, check the preference ‘Open last Web site [...]
