Expression Web 4 Service Pack 2 was released in July In December , Microsoft announced that Expression Studio will no longer be a standalone product. Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based on your system configuration and operating system. NET Framework 4. The following dialog will be displayed.
Select the location and click the Install button. In the previous chapter, we have installed Microsoft Expression Web and now we are ready to start working on it.
In this chapter, we will learn how to create a new website from scratch. Specify the location or you can browse to the location where you want the new website to be created. As we have already created our website, now we will need to create our Home Page. In the previous chapter, we have created a one-page website, and our Home Page was created at that time automatically by Expression Web.
So, if you have created a blank website, then you will need to create a Home Page for your site. As our website already contains an index. However, if you have created an Empty website, then name this page index. Here, you can define the different options for your style. On the left side, there is a Category list like font, background, etc. Set the Font related information as per your requirements as shown in the above screenshot and click Ok.
Now, if you open the sample. You will observe that the style is applied from the CSS file. In this chapter, we will be covering the basic layout of your webpages. Before creating our webpage layout, we need to think about our content and then design how we want to present that content, as it is the content that will be visible on our website.
It is up to us how we present our content so that our viewers find our site and then stay to check it out. The layout will probably include the company logo or banner at the top, the navigation menu, a content area that may include multiple columns, and footer at the bottom of the page. Previously, developers used tables to achieve this look. Tables created group of boxes that were used to create rows and columns.
On the left side, there is a Category list such as Font, Background, etc. Set the Font-related information as per your requirements as shown in the above screenshot. You can also select the image for your background by using the browser button. Once you are done with the Background, define your Borders if you want.
Once you are done with the style, then click Ok. If you open the sample. The hash mark is an ID selector. Go to the Background category. Click the OK button. Following is the code in sample. In this chapter, we will learn another way of designing the layout of a page. In the last chapter, we have used style sheet to apply the styles to header, footer, etc.
This is not the recommended way to design a layout, however just for understanding purpose, we will cover this technique here. Try to follow the steps given below. Set the Font for your page and then go to the Background category. In this chapter, we will learn how to add horizontal navigation or menu items to the website. To create a hyperlink, go to the design view or code view. Select the 'Border' Category and change the width to thin.
From the Apply Styles panel, click New Style…. In the Block category, select center from the test-align field and go to the List category. To check how it is looks, go to the File menu and select Preview in Browser. In this chapter, we will learn how to add vertical navigation or menu items to the website. Enter the text you want as the screentip and click OK.
Right-click on left-nav and select Modify Style…. Enter 0. Select block from the display dropdown and click OK. Select black as the font color. Select the background color for your menu option when the mouse is hovering on the menu item and click OK.
The status bar and Code view alert you to code errors and incompatibility in a single page, while the Compatibility task pane lists all code errors and incompatibility in one or more pages, or an entire website. Expression Web identifies incompatible code by using a document schema that is based on the DocType declaration in a page.
If the page doesn't contain a DocType declaration or the DocType isn't recognized, Expression Web uses a secondary schema. When you create a site and work on its pages, you should develop a habit of validating the pages.
Microsoft Expression Web has various tools which can be very helpful while validating your webpages. When the current, open web page contains a code error, then you get to see a Code Error Detected icon highlighted in the following screenshot.
In this case, the status bar at the bottom of the program window displays the Code Error Detected icon. You can generate a report that checks only particular files or an entire website. Select the options as per the requirement and click the Check button. On double-click on any row, it will take you to the location where the error exists. A Dynamic Web Template is a HTML-based master copy of a web page that you can create to contain settings, formatting, and page elements such as text, graphics, page layout, styles, and regions of a webpage that can be modified.
When you attach a Dynamic Web Template to the pages in a website, that template defines the layout for those pages. You can use any number of Dynamic Web Templates in a website, and you can attach a Dynamic Web Template to as many pages as you like. In addition to providing a shared layout, you can make some regions in a template available for editing while preventing changes to other regions in that template.
This means that you can allow others to add and edit content, yet still preserve the layout of the pages and the template itself. The most important concept of website design is to maintain a consistent look and feel for your site and with Dynamic Web Template you can achieve it. Basic pages such as a Sitemap, Contact, About, and Search pages. A visitor should be able to reach your home page from any page on the site.
Repeat to add additional editable regions if you want. You will receive a warning message. Click Yes. Similarly, you can add the same template to as many HTML pages as you want to the website. If you move the mouse to the other section, you will see that it is not editable and the mouse curser also changes to the red cross circle.
In this chapter, we will learn how to add a search option or a search box to the website. Standard or Quirks rendering Render pages in Standard or Quirks mode depending on the doctype setting of the page for maximum browser compatibility. Tag property grid Retrieve and set all valid properties for a selected tag. Access all the power of the HTML language through one palette. Drag-and-drop style management Try out designs with local in-page CSS styles and then easily migrate styles to a central repository using drag and drop.
Intelligent style renaming Rename styles instantly without find and replace with locally stored site metadata recording all style usage. CSS reporting View detailed reports on CSS style usage across sites in the Results pane to effectively manage the deployment of consistently styled pages. CSS design time preferences Set preferences for exactly how CSS code is generated throughout an application to have complete control over Expression Web Designer code generation.
Customized views of XML data Design customized views of industry-standard XML data using powerful drag-and-drop tools to quickly achieve visualizations that conform to the CSS site design. Powerful data manipulation Fine-tune the raw data presented on the page with tools to sort, filter, and apply condition formatting. Create and edit ASP.
NET 2. Capture the power of ASP. This application is compatible with all the current standards and includes a series of tools developed to make work easier while designing and also when it comes to debugging the code, by means of previewing any change in real-time. The program's interface is very elegant and offers a space that is ideal to develop websites , because each tool is clearly differentiated, and it's possible to access any of the application's sections with a couple of clicks of the mouse.
If you're looking for a professional tool to create websites , that offers you full compatibility, and that also has an elegant interface, try out Microsoft Expression Web today.
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