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Microsoft Expression Web 3NOTE: We're in the process of updating this workshop (and its description) to reflect the new version of Microsoft's Expression Web: Expression Web 3 (released in August 2009). Please check back later for the revised description. Expression Web is Microsoft's professional web design tool, combining state of the art "standards-based" web page creation with legendary ease of use. Unlike other web design software, Expression Web creates tight, easily maintained CSS-based pages automatically, instead of treating CSS as an add-on to traditional HTML. Expression Web is the first major Web editor designed from the ground up to create code based on CSS and XML. Even when you drag an image or text box to resize it, the program inserts CSS-based layout code rather than the old-style HTML tags created by other web design programs. Our Expression Web offerings include: Expression Web 3, Level 1NOTE: We're in the process of updating this workshop (and its description) to reflect the new version of Microsoft's Expression Web (Expression Web 3, released August 2009). Expression Web is a highly rated professional-level, fully “CSS standards-based” web design tool. Learn the basics of designing web layouts using Expression Web’s “state-of-the-art” design surface. Create and use dynamic web templates for a consistent look, formatting links and hotspots, and creating interactive buttons and “rollovers.” You’ll work with Expression Web’s intuitive CSS controls to easily create and modify style sheets (the CSS properties palette visually displays the CSS cascade). Preview your web pages in multiple browsers using the new “SuperPreview” and continuously updated “Snapshot Preview” features, and generate accessibility and compatibility reports prior to “publishing” the web site. Expression Web 3, Level 1
Expression Web 3, Level 2NOTE: We're in the process of updating this workshop (and its description) to reflect the new version of Microsoft's Expression Web (Expression Web 3, released August 2009). Please check back later for the revised description. This "Level 2" workshop covers many more of the powerful features and techniques available to you in Expression Web, while still retaining the ease-of-use built in to the program. You'll learn to create CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) layouts, complete with absolute positioning of page elements, and will extend the control and efficiency of building your web site with "Master Pages" based on ASP.NET pages (.aspx). Master pages, easily created in Expression Web, are somewhat similar to "dynamic web templates," but have a number of advantages, including much greater flexibility and efficiency. You'll also work more extensively with layers, including layer styling, managing multiple layers, creating nested layers, and even assigning behaviors to layers. Using Expression Web's built-in support for ASP.NET, we'll also create forms, setting validation parameters as desired, displaying content from databases on web pages, and even creating a login page using login controls. In addition, you'll learn some of the basics of working with XML, including creating an XML database to use as a data source, and displaying XML data on a web page. You'll also be able to display RSS feeds on a web page, and to work with inline frames. Expression Web 3, Level 2
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