Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #334507 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

About the Author
Nolan Hester has written more than a dozen books for Peachpit Press, including the best-selling Creating a Web Page with Dreamweaver: Visual QuickProject Guide and Retouching Photos in Photoshop Elements: Visual QuickProject Guide. He is also the author of two editions of Microsoft Office FrontPage for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide.

Customer Reviews

Great Starter Book on Web Expression
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 (,