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Microsoft Expression WebExpression Web is Microsoft's new professional web design tool, combining state of the art "standards-based" web page creation with legendary ease of use. Unlike other web design software, such as Dreamweaver or the now-discontinued FrontPage, 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 FrontPage or DreamWeaver. Expression Web thus marks a significant improvement in web design tools, and has already begun to draw in users from all the other professional-level web design tools. After you've used Expression Web for a while, you'll never consider going back!
Our current Expression Web offerings include: Expression Web, Level 1In the Level 1 workshop, you'll learn the basics of Expression Web, starting with defining a website and designing layouts using layout tables and other standard layout components. You'll be able to import existing pages to your website (such as content from programs like Microsoft Word), and to easily edit and format text, tables, images, and links. You'll create both internal and external links, as well as "bookmark" links and multiple "hotspot" links from an image, and will even be able to open pages in a new browser window, controlling its size and appearance. You'll also learn to create and apply "Dynamic Web Templates" (a kind of "master page"), to help give your web pages a consistent appearance, and to simplify any future changes. One of the most outstanding features of Expression Web is its full integration and support of CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) standards. Expression Web automatically uses CSS to format and style your pages and layouts, but you'll also learn how use Expression Web's intuitive controls to work with CSS directly, creating and modifying external style sheets as well as "internal styles." In addition, you'll be able to add various "behaviors" to your web pages, including interactive buttons and other more generic "rollovers." We'll end by finalizing a website, checking for accessibility and browser compatibility, generating CSS and site summary reports, and finally "publishing" the website. Expression Web, Level 1
Expression Web, Level 2This "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. And finally, we'll take a brief look at managing workgroup development within Expression Web, including managing a file's review status, and managing developers' access to files by using source control. Expression Web, Level 2
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