Expression® Web Design
Apply a Style Sheet
Monday, August 27, 2007
To apply a style sheet to your Expression Web page, make sure that the Manage Style Task Pane is showing. This will usually be on the right hand side unless you have moved it. If you do not see it, go to Task Panes - Manage Styles.Once this is shown , choose Attached Style Sheet. In the dialog box, choose Browse and locate your style sheet. Double click on this and now it will add the correct code into the <head> of your document.
Adding a Style
Under Tag Properties, you can choose what styles are available to you in the style sheet that you have just attached.
Inserting an Image to Your Webpage
Friday, August 24, 2007
You can easily add an image to your webpage that you created in Expression Web by dragging the image from the folder list on the left hand side to the place in your website. Your text might become mis-aligned but you can right click on the image, choose Picture Properties. In the dialog box, choose the Appearance tab. Now you can chose to align your image to the left or right of the other information on your website.Using Frontpage
Frontpage will allow this option as well, however it will use the deprecated align attribute:<img alt="First Data" src="images/first-data-merchant-services.gif" width="144" height="64" align="left" />
In Expression Web it will use styles to align the image:
<img alt="First Data" src="images/first-data-merchant-services.gif" style="width: 144px; height: 64px; float: left" />
Using styles will be better of course, especially if you are striving for a compliant website.
For more information check out the video Inserting an Image into a Webpage
Publishing From Remote Server to Local Computer
Expression Web can copy files from the web server, just like Frontpage did. Expression Web can copy these files using FTP or Frontpage Server Extensions, just like Frontpage did. This is extremely helpful if your computer crashes and you need to retrieve the data from the server.Assuming you have created the website already on your computer, you can easily set up the connection information in the Remote Web Site Properties. This is where you can use FPSE or FTP, depending on your hosting company. If you have used Frontpage guestbook, hit counter or any other FPSE components like:
- Confirmation Field
- Discussion Form Handler
- FrontPage created server-side Image Maps
- Registration Form Handler
- Save Results Form Handler
- Scheduled Image
- Scheduled Include Page Component
- Search Form
- WebBot Registration component
- WebBot Discussion component
- WebBot Save Results component
- WebBot Search component
- WebBot Scheduled Include component
- FrontPage created server-side Image Maps
- WebBot Confirmation Field component
- WebBot Scheduled Image
- Nested subwebs
- Lightweight Source Control (document check-in/check-out without Microsoft Visual SourceSafe for Windows)
- Categories component
- StyleSheet links to multiple files or Active Server Pages (ASP) files
- FP98: List of FrontPage Components That Require Server Extensions
- List of components in FrontPage 2000 that require FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions
- Lists of components in FrontPage 2002 that require FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions
Free Expression Web Tool
Thursday, August 23, 2007
LoudExpressions is running a contest! We are asking our readers to announce our blog in your blog. We would like for you to write a blog linking to our website: http://www.loudexpressions.com. Once you link to us, send us an email giving us the (perma)link. This will be counted as one point.I Don't Have a Blog
If you don't have a blog, that's OK also. We will also you a few ways to get more "points".MyBlogLog
Thanks to MyBlogLog for offering a pro account to LoudExpressions, you join our MyBlogLog community and receive two "points".Technorati
You can get one "point" by tagging us on Technorati.Deadline
The deadline to enter the contest is 30 Sep 2007, 12 Noon Mountain Standard Time. We hope that you will keep us tagged and you will stay in our community in MyBlogLog after this date.Determining a Winner
We will export all the emails that we receive, review Technorati and check MyBlogLog for all the people who have joined. We will then place these email addresses / users into a spreadsheet and allow Microsoft Excel to choose a random user. Your email address will not be shared with anyone outside our blog.A winner will be announced on / about October 3, 2007. This gives us time to verify all the links and emails. The winner will be announced on the forum with a link to his / her blog or MyBlogLog Community if appropriate. The winner will be contacted by LoudExpressions via email with a serial number to Expression® Web.
Miscellaneous
You can have up to four "points" - one for the blog, two for MyBlogLog and one for Technorati.
MyBlogLog
Thanks to MyBlogLog for offering their Pro account to LoudExpressions. MyBlogLog helps you to track users and to link with other Bloggers in Communities.
LoudExpressions is Looking for Bloggers
If you like to write about Microsoft®, Expression® Web, Expression® Studio, Expression® Blend, Expression® Design, or Expression® Media, please contact us. We will be happy to set up an account for you to add your posts to. We prefer blogs relating to Microsoft® and the Expression® products.If you would like, we will try to even do a video of your example to help others learn the Expression® Suite.
What's In It For You?
You will get promoted on our website and you will be able to help people with adjusting from Frontpage to Expression®.
Expression Web and FrontPage Community
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Expression Web & FrontPage Community are finally opened. The same guys and gals that ran the Expression Web and Frontpage Forum on Time for Web are now at Expression Web & FrontPage Community thanks to Community Server.Stop by, register, and say hello in the Who Are You? zone.
