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Expression Web Training Videos

Expression Web provides terrific tools for creating static HTML sites, but most web sites have some dynamic elements. Displaying database data is accomplished by binding that data to controls in an ASP.NET page. This video demonstrates how to bind controls to data from a database using the tools in Expression Web.

Databind Controls in Expression Web
(17 minutes, 18 seconds)

There was a day when web pages were capable of no more than text. That day is long gone and now images are used heavily in web pages for layout, interest, and a more enhanced experience. Expression Web gives users multiple tools for working with images directly within the designer. This presentation demonstrates how to work with images in Expression Web and introduces some of the tools in Expression Web to work with and manipulate images.

Work with Images in Expression Web
(11 minutes, 10 seconds)

Tables used to be the preferred mechanism to layout a web page. Using rows and columns, a designer could position elements on a web page where appropriate. Today, the more correct way to handle layout in web pages is by using divs and ID based styles. This presentation demonstrates how to utilize divs and styles in laying out a web site using Expression Web.

Use CSS Layout in Expression Web
(14 minutes, 20 seconds)

Creating a standards-based web site using Expression Web.

Standards-based Web Sites
(17 minutes, 30 seconds)

Use Expression Web to include rich data, such as XML, XSL, and RSS, in your web site.

Rich Data Presentation
(8 minutes, 3 seconds)

How to work with the ASP.NET capabilities built in to Expression Web.

Powerful Server Technology
(8 minutes, 23 seconds)

An overview of the reporting and deployment features of Expression Web.

Reporting and Deployment
(6 minutes, 25 seconds)

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Expression Web Virtual Labs

Expression Express lab (30 minutes)

After completing this lab, you will be better able to use and manage the style sheets Expression Web creates for you as you design your web page, plus more on CSS.

Expression Web and ASP.NET Controls

After completing this lab you will be better able to use Expression Web, work with ASP.NET 2.0 Sites, Master Pages, the markup used to define ASP.NET controls on the Server style and more.

Expression Web: Creating a Standards-Based Web Site

Learn how to create and open a web site folder, develop a static web page, insert images, text and hyperlinks and manage preferences to ensure your desired standards support.

Expression Web: Designing Pages with CSS

Create page layouts with CSS, apply styles for text and images, save styles to external style sheet and attach an external style sheet to multiple web pages.

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Expression Web Quick Start Guides

Expression Web 2 - Quick Start Guide

Get an overview of all the essentials of Expression Web 2 with this introduction to the important features that'll help you start creating standards-based websites fast.

Expression Web 1 - Creating a Standards-Based Website

Get creative in Expression Web 1 now! Download this hands-on lab and start building a standards-based website immediately.
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Expression Web Tutorials

Designing Web Sites for Accessibility with Expression Web 2

by Kathleen Anderson

Kathleen Anderson explains how to optimize your site in Expression Web 2.

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Expression Web Webcasts

Innovation Briefing Webinar: Building Compelling Websites on the Microsoft Platform

This webinar will cover:

  • Expression Web 2 – the powerful, new, professional web editing tool to build visually popping web experiences
  • Building standard-based websites with Expression Studio 2
  • Introduction to features specific to the development of PHP websites

Using Cascading Style Sheets, Identifiers, and Classes in Expression Web (Level 200)

Download and learn how to use Expression Web to work through some basic site design tasks using fully standards-compliant XHTML and CSS.

Exploring Basic Features of the New Expression Web (Level 200)

Join us as we discuss some of the basic features of Expression Web, including powerful task panes and design tools for greater productivity, cross-browser validation features for web standards, and sophisticated CSS design tools for page layout and formatting.

Expression Launch Keynote, Part 1

by Eric Zocher

You've heard the rumors, now come see what the fuss is all about. Check out how leading design agencies are taking user experience to the next level and differentiating their designs with Microsoft's newest technologies. Eric Zocher will show off an end-to-end customer experience inspired by Burton Snowboards™ with samples that demonstrate the power of UX on the Web and on the desktop. View the sessions videos and we will show you how it was done!

Expression Launch Keynote, Part 2

by Eric Zocher

Designing Rich Web Experiences

by Jeff King

In this session we'll walk through creating and enriching a customer facing Web experience for Burton Snowboards. We'll delve deeply into the design with Expression Web and integrate that design into Visual Studio and ASP.NET 2.0. Then we'll enrich the site leveraging ASP.NET AJAX and push rich media and interactivity farther than ever before with Silverlight. You'll walk away understanding the breadth and power of the end-to-end Microsoft Web platform.

Designing Windows Experiences

by Robby Ingebretsen (Identity Mine) and Beau Ambur (Metaliq)

Join two top designers as they show how they created next generation experiences using Expression Blend and Expression Design. Learn best practices for creating experiences that are anything but lowest-common-denominator.

Standards-Based Web Design

by Eric Meyer (Complex Spiral Consulting)

We'll show you how to simplify creating standards-based web sites so you can focus more of that energy on being creative. Learn about best practices and see how you can create CSS-based, XHTML 1.0 Transitional Web sites with Expression Web. Further simplify web site creation with built-in site validation against Section 508 and W3C Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

Stories from the Design Trenches

by Chris Bernard

Glimpse into our journey of designing for over 500 million users such as for Office 2007 and Vista. Hear about the challenges and ultimately the successes the user experience team achieved in driving product innovation and quality, despite working in a largely engineering-driven culture.

Unlocking Value Through User Experience in Software, Products and Services

by Chris Bernard, Valerie Casey and Beau Ambur (Metaliq)

Platforms, tools, standards, processes, and the ubiquity of connectivity are changing the constraints that designers have typically had to manage in unlocking the value in software, products, and services. The palette of options available to designers to prototype and iterate for the standards-based web, rich web and rich clients has never been filled with more opportunity. Learn how your design peers are taking advantage of these new breakthroughs today in compelling and profitable ways via a panel discussion with some of today's top design professionals.

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Expression Web White Papers

Expression Web White Paper

The Expression Web team has published a white paper specifically to help FrontPage users transition to Expression Web and the current environment of Web standards.
  • Introduces the Expression Web workspace.
  • Discusses Web standards.
  • Provides information on how to work with your existing site, including FrontPage Web components, themes, and shared borders, in Expression Web.
  • Introduces ASP.NET support and data integration available in Expression Web.
  • Download the whitepaper
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