Last year the Microsoft Expression team shipped a new suite of tools for creative professionals. This first release of Expression Studio marked a significant milestone in the history of development tools at Microsoft, delivering superior designer-developer workflow and providing designers a set of interaction...
For the last couple months I've been working on a project that launched the week of the 2008 MVP Global Summit. It's a new resource for Microsoft Expression Web users - the Expression Web Wiki . The wiki was 'seeded' with content from the Expression Web Help Files, but as most wikis go...
One of the reasons I haven't used Expression Web as my main design tool is the lack of a built-in feature comparable to the FrontPage Design Time Include Component. I'm happy to report that the Include function is back in the Expression Web 2 Beta . It's not a button on the Standard Toolbar...
Building on the successful launch of Microsoft Expression Web and after listening closely to your feedback, we are excited to announce the release of Microsoft Expression Web 2 Beta. This Beta release expands your toolset beyond HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, by putting PHP, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX...
If you use FrontPage (or you know someone who uses FrontPage) - we have good news for you if you are considering upgrading your toolset. Expression Web provides a really solid Web authoring tool to create and maintain sites based on standards-compliant code. I have a non-technical friend (a theatre producer...
Learn about new developer features that help make Internet Information Server (IIS) 7 the most flexible, extensible and customizable Web server on the planet. We have rebuilt the extensibility model for IIS7 to be more modular and customizable. We’ll cover the new extensibility architecture in IIS7....
Teach your students how to use a professional design tool to create their own Web sites with this new student-friendly tutorial, Your Learning Guide to Expression Web. Download the tutorial here. Be sure to check out our teacher-created and classroom-tested curriculum unit (including lesson plans), The...
From the Public Sector Developer Weblog: Microsoft has recently released a new series of Virtual Labs (pre-configured Windows environments that you can Remote-Desktop into and learn how to use our products/technologies) for Microsoft Expressions. For those of you who are not aware of what Expressions...
Listen to Erik Saltwell and Nishant Kothary talk about user experience, why “designer” is an imprecise term, the aesthetics of markup, upcoming features in Expression Web, PHP IntelliSense and #includes, the WordPress and PHP session at MIX08, and Erik on customer intimacy (SFW). It's almost 40 minutes...
Great news at the IEBlog : Back in April 2006, we made a change to how Internet Explorer handled embedded controls used on some webpages. Some sites required users to “click to activate” before they could interact with the control. Microsoft has now licensed the technologies from Eolas, removing the...