Microsoft Expression Web
by Nolan Hester
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Author: Nolan HesterEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-01-27
ISBN: 0321492234
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Peachpit Press
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Book Review: Great Starter Book on Web Expression
Summary: 5 Stars
Microsoft Expression Web is the new Microsoft web development tool that replaces Microsoft FrontPage. It is part of the new Microsoft Expression tools (Expressions Blend, Expression Design, and Expression Media) that basically in my opinion are set to compete with the tools by Adobe/Macromedia.
Expression Web has a totally new interface and even though it is similar to FrontPage, it really does look totally different at first glance. This a great book for users who were already comfortable with using Microsoft FrontPage or new users who want to know the basics of using this new tool.
At the beginning of the book the author goes through the main interface explaining the basic environment and all the different panes (windows), toolbars, and buttons. Basic functionality such as creating a blank website, how to save your files (locally and online), replacing content in template-based sites, deleing and adding pages, importing a website, and how to create the various types of web pages (.html, .css, .js, .aspx, .xml) is covered in the first 3 chapters. The book has lots of screenshots to help you along using the tool and everything is shown and explained in great detail.
The middle of the book covers how to enter text, select and past text on a page, indenting paragraphs, creating and formatting lists (unordered, ordered, definition), how to use spell check, adding, aligning, positioning images on a page, cropping, resizing, and setting an images transparency as well as create hyperlinks with text and images (hot spots too!). After these chapters (4- 6), you should have the basics down have been able to create your basic pages and format your content.
Toward the end of the end of the book (7 and 8) cover how to use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) in great detail for such a short book. Chapter 7 shows you from the beginning how to create a basic style with the CSS Tools Expression Web provides to you. I like that the book first explains in a couple pages what CSS is and how the "cascade" of CSS works so the newbie will understand it later on when they develop more complex pages. The author further goes into CSS by telling the reader how to format specific styles for use with hyperlinks, tables, lists and basic block elements (, <div>, <h1-6>). Also covered in the chapter are creating classes and div to identify block of text you want to format as a group which is very important in any web design.
Expression Web has behaviors (we know where Microsoft took that right?), which are small built-in JavaScript code snippets that you can apply to any element on your page. You can easily create mouse-over image effects, dynamic menus (jump menus), opening new windows, dynamic buttons, etc. This is a great addition to the new tool that FrontPage did not have internally.
The final two chapters (10 and 11), the author reviews how to create simple to complex nested tables using the table tools to visually create any type of table you want. This new table tool is a mix of how FrontPage allowed you to create tables and a little better visual representation of (drawing layers) the table layout of how Dreamweaver does it. The book goes through every step of adding a table, editing an existing table, modifying its attributes (border, cell padding and spacing, position, alignment, etc.). The final chapter on forms shows you how to add a form (s) to your web page and add any type of form input element (textbox, radio button, dropdown, text-area, etc.) as well as giving you ideas on using extensions (or add-ins) to create validation for form elements and server-side scripts to parse the form data (very brief on that).
Sorry, I forgot the actual last chapter (12), covers how to publish your site to various types of web hosts...can forget that part!
This is a great book for the money that I highly recommend to get you started using Microsoft Expression Web or gives the Microsoft FrontPage users a quick refresher on how to use this new improved tool.
Well done.
Summary of Microsoft Expression Web
Get a jump start on using this brand-new Web creation tool from Microsoft. Built from the ground up using current Web standards, Expression Web make it easy to create pages that look good in all browsers. Mirroring the program?s focus on standards, the book shows you how to use Cascading Style Sheets to build consistent, easy to navigate designs. CSS newcomers will welcome the plain-spoken approach to a sometimes intimidating topic. Old hands at CSS will find plenty of tips on using Expression Web?s many style tools, which are some of the best available in any Web creation program.Packed with more than 600 screenshots, the book goes beyond crafting good-looking single pages. Instead, it shows you how to use templates to generate whole sites with uniform, yet creative, layouts that can be reconfigured with the click of a button. You?ll also learn how to give sites extra polish with interactive behaviors and forms. Microsoft Expression Web: Visual Quickstart Guide contains exactly what you need to get started building standards-compliant Web sites using this powerful tool.
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