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Add a background sound to your web page in Microsoft Expression Web

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 [...]

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. [...]

Redirect a web page using Behaviors in Microsoft Expression Web 3

Redirect a web page using Behaviors in Microsoft Expression Web 3

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 [...]

Manage Sites List in Microsoft Expression Web 3

Manage Sites List in Microsoft Expression Web 3

The Site Manager allows you to add or remove sites from the Microsoft Expression Web’s Site list when you click on ‘Open Site’ button in the common toolbar. To add a site, follow these steps: In the Site menu, choose Manage Sites List….   In the Managed Sites List dialog box, click Add.   Then [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Add a command to toolbar and menu bar in Microsoft Expression Web 2

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

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 [...]

Automatically Save Web pages before previewing in Microsoft Expression Web 2

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 [...]