Transitioning to Expression Web? Get the Latest Resources!

When you open Expression Web, it looks like the FrontPage interface, however, behind the scenes there are some significant differences that you need to learn about.

Make your first stop theMicrosoft Expression on-line community site and checkout the great articles and video for Web developers that are transitioning from FrontPage to Expression Web: Expression Web for FrontPage Users.Corrie Haffly is the author of many of the articles and she has done an excellent job of helping former FrontPage users learn the ways of Expression Web. I particularly like Corrie's Transitioning to CSS tutorial. The CSS Properties task pane and the Manage Styles task pane are tools that will be new to FrontPage users and they are core elements in building and editing "tableless" CSS page layouts.

Another article I found very helpful is Adding Support for Page Includes in Expression Web byPat Geary . FrontPage users found the Insert Web > Included Content function very useful and unfortunately it is not available on the Expression Web Menu Bar. However, Pat shows you how to easily customize the tool menu to add the Insert > Include Page command to the Tool Bar.

After you have reviewed the articles for transitioning FrontPage users at the Microsoft Expression Community Site take a tour of the following links. I think you find Expression Web a huge step up in performance and capability from FrontPage.

Expression Web Resources

Read Corrie Haffly’s Expression Web White Paper :
http://lnk.nu/download.microsoft.com/uvl.doc
Note: Corrie Haffly is the Developer of the John Galt Templates at PixelMill.

If you don't have it yet... Get Microsoft Expression Web V2 Here:
Expression Web upgrade deal ($99.95) for users of MS Office, FrontPage, Dreamweaver and more:

http://store.microsoft.com/microsoft/expression-web-2-upgrade/prod...

Expression Web:
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/overview.aspx?key=web

Microsoft Expression Web Solution Center:

http://support.microsoft.com/ph/12105

Microsoft Expression Web Community Site:

http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx

PixelMill Expression support:
http://www.pixelmill.com/support/al1097.htm


http://www.pixelmill.com/support/kb101729.htm


http://www.pixelmill.com/support/al1112.htm

DWT Support Articles:
http://www.pixelmill.com/support/support_search.aspx?Keyword=DWT



Hosting:
Microsoft editors continue to work best with Microsoft web servers and while you can use Expression Web and Visual Web Editor Express to FTP your files to Apache Web Server on UNIX/Linux. You will not be getting all of the extended functionality available on Windows Server and the Windows IIS Web server. An example of a good Windows Host is Hostway: http://www.hostway.com .

A Must Have:
The best CSS Tool you will find and it is a free plug-in for FireFox- You
need this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843

Don’t have FireFox?
Get it here: http://www.mozilla.com
Use FireFox to “Preview in Browser” and you will have fewer problems viewing local webs ( Internet Explorer has problems viewing local content).
Note: Because of the Microsoft security patches you may still need to publish your Web to a Web Server to acurately see your changes.

Training:
PixelMill Expression Web seminars:

Week1

http://www.pixelmill.com/images/videos/seminars/2007-09-18-fptoxweb

Week2

http://www.pixelmill.com/images/videos/seminars/2007-09-25-fptoxweb

Week3

http://www.pixelmill.com/images/videos/seminars/2007-10-02-fptoxweb

Week 4:

http://www.pixelmill.com/images/videos/seminars/2007-10-09-fptoxweb


Next:
Visit W3Schools: http://www.w3schools.com

Take the HTML, and CSS Tutorials

Other educational resources:
Lynda.Com - http://www.lynda.com
All-you-can learn training. 30,655 video tutorials with 456 online courses on a huge variety of software.
This is a great educational site, and at $25 per month and you can’t beat the price.

Total Training -
http://www.totaltraining.com
Total Training now offers three annual online subscription plans to fit all your training needs.

Books:
Sitepoint CSS Book:
http://www.sitepoint.com/books/cssant1/

Check out the Sitepoint Photoshop book by PixelMill's Corrie Haffly:

https://sitepoint.com/bookstore/go/63/1aaf20c


Best Regards,
Greg Snow
PixelMill Support
gsnow@pixelmill.com