June 28th, 2009
Have you been thinking about updating your website? Are you using FrontPage and want to move to Expression Web but are unsure how to do that? Fear not, our ebook covers all the necessary procedures to help you do that, and to do it with the least work possible.
You will need either of the Expression Web versions 1.0 or 2.0. Or you can use the FREE SharePoint Designer 2007 When it comes to the credit crunch our summer sale gives you a saving at just the right time. Plus the last few days of the Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor for Expression Web sale for $10 off the usual standard price make a great double saving. If you want to buy or upgrade Expression Web check out your eligibility.
Learn more about Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web and obtain your ebook in our summer sale now for the low price of $22 (standard price $29)
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June 19th, 2009
Further Expression Web 3.0 Insights
Thanks to a comment from Justin Harrison a program manager at Microsoft for Expression Web I have had further thoughts since my first post on this subject.
I recommended that one should upgrade now from Expression Web 1.0 to Expression Web 2.0. However, it dawned on me that you could upgrade to Expression Web 3.0 when it becomes available and according to Ars Technica that will be pretty soon. Note though, instead of upgrading now to Expression Web 2.0 those features that you might want to retain are available in the now free SharePoint Designer 2007 which is for the most part like Expression Web 1.0. It is not ideal having to use two programs to retain some of the features that are ideal in certain situations, but its a better method because it cuts down on the costs. As Justin also points out the standalone SuperPreview will only be available for Internet Explorer whilst the inbuilt version in Expression Web 3.0 will be able to cover a variety of other browsers.
Since ladies are allowed to change their minds 
I reserve the right and do so.
New recommendation: - Upgrade or buy Expression Web 3.0 when it comes out, and if you find yourself needing some of the features that were available with Expression Web 1.0 that are not available because of the underlying program code changes in EW 3.0, well then, SPD 07 can meet those needs nicely. Save monies and have all the features. new and old what more could a gal ask for?
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June 15th, 2009
Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor for Expression Web
WebAssist are having a site wide sale till the 30th of June, that means that
Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor for Expression Web
is now $39.99 instead of $49.99
What you get:
- Total Customization
- Efficient and Intuitive
- Cross Browser Compatibility
- CSS Expertise
Never again do you have to start from scratch when making a new web template. This delightful Expression Web addon does it all for you. When I use the program I choose a basic layout and then insert it into Expression Web and I use EW CSS Properites to tweak the styles to conform to my colours and graphics. I find this is best so that I practice using css within EW to keep up my skills.
If you don’t have this Expression Web addon yet - now is a really good time to get it, not only saving you credit crunch monies, but saving you time in getting started with that perfect template.
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June 9th, 2009
Expression Web 3.0 and why you should upgrade now to Expression Web 2.0
These are the three known links about Expression Web 3.0
One of the comments from somasegar’s blog asked if there was a plan going forward to unify them into a consistent UI framework/experience/codebase.
Steve Guttman replies (Steve manages the Expression Web product team)
“With respect to the interface of Expression Web and the Expression products–our objective is to unify the Expression applications under a single UI framework. As you can imagine, with a program having a lot of native, Win32 code, it’s a challenge to port that code base to a new UI paragidm. Expression Web 3 is our first, significant step in that direction. As folks have noted, SuperPreview (as it was written from scratch), uses the Blend UI framework. The Expression Web 3 UI uses significant parts of this framework to achieve it’s look and feel. All the new features (Insert Silverlight, Silverlight Video, Deep Zoom) are built with the Blend framework (you can tell by the dialogs). However, there are still quite a few remaining Win32 dialogs. These will be ported in future versions of the application until Expression Web is fully integrated into the framework.”
This means that a lot of things that worked before won’t work under the new unified UI framework, this can affect quite a few things when the coding of the program itself has to be changed. As Steve states at the end of his comment not everything will be ported into Expression Web 3.0 for this version. It also certainly means that none of the current Expression Web addons will work in EW 3.0 either.
So to my mind, if you like the CURRENT features of Expression Web 2.0 you should upgrade NOW. Since the SuperPreview will also be available as a standalone FREE version, you won’t be missing out on that particular new feature.
You can obtain a 30-day trial of Expression Web 2.0 to try it out.
When it comes to upgrading you can upgrade not only from Expression Web 1.0 or 2.0 but you may also be eligible to do so if you have a registered version of any of the following products:-
- Adobe Creative Suite - any version
- Adobe/Macromedia Flash or Director - any version
- Adobe/Macromedia Dreamweaver - any version
- Adobe GoLive - any version
- Microsoft Office - any version
- Microsoft FrontPage® - any version
- Quark QuarkXPress - any version
According to somasegar’s blog Expression Web 3.0 will be out this Summer, which means about the next eight weeks or so, so don’t wait too long.
Tags: Expression Web 3.0
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May 3rd, 2009
The Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog asks you to show your support by linking to them
Download this Blog Badge Code code text file that contains the validating code for the badge and paste the code into your sidebar.php template. It will work for a self hosted blog or a third party blog like Blogger. This code is for a strict xhtml doctype (which most blogs are) and contains inline styles.
- In FireFox just copy the code that appears in the browser
- In Internet Explorer - right click and View Source
The Microsoft MVP Award Team are also active on Twitter and Twibes
Tags: mvp award
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May 1st, 2009
For the merry month of May ONLY - and ONLY in the UK you can now get the following Expression suite applications with 40% off the full price. Including Expression Web
- Expression Web 2
- Expression Web 2 Upgrade
- Expression Blend 2
- Expression Blend 2 Upgrade
- Expression Encoder 2
- Expression Encoder 2 Upgrade
- Expression Media 2
- Expression Media 2 Upgrade
- Expression Studio 2
- Expression Studio 2 Upgrade
If you are able to upgrade to Expression Web because you have EW 1.0 you are not the only users eligible to do so. Did you know if you have a registered version of any of the following products:-
- Adobe Creative Suite - any version
- Adobe/Macromedia Flash or Director - any version
- Adobe/Macromedia Dreamweaver - any version
- Adobe GoLive - any version
- Microsoft Office - any version
- Microsoft FrontPage® - any version
- Quark QuarkXPress - any version
That you are eligible to upgrade to Expression Web and other Expression suite products, and along with 40% off the price makes that makes your purchase a very nice credit crunch saving indeed.
Tags: expression web, upgrade
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April 29th, 2009
Going back in time to 2007, Pat Geary and I wrote our first ebook about Launching a WordPress Blog using one’s own domain or sub-domain. WordPress has updated many versions since then all the way to 2.7.1 and we decided the time had come to rewrite our ebook so that’s what we have done.
Now available for download and completely free is:
We cover the following:
- Getting started with a WordPress Blog
- Requirements for Installing WordPress – Before you get started make sure your host gives you the tools you need. One host that we know of who does not is 1and1 UK Home packages. Did you read to the bottom of the page?
- Installing Database -
- Download WordPress
- Configure wp-config-sample file – Did you read the instructions all of the way through? Did you rename the file?
- Configure a FTP Client – If you are already using an ftp client that works, it is not necessary to download FileZilla. Use the one you are comfortable with, but make sure if you’re using another ftp client to set it to ASCII for the WordPress installation
- Installing WordPress –
- Setting up WordPress – Did you read to the bottom of the page? Do not try and install a new theme yet. Work with the default one until you have finished setting up.
Options Permalinks – If your url looks like http://your-domain.com/hello-world.php rather than http://your-domain.com/?p123 you followed the instructions. Ready for the next step?
- Configure WordPress Categories – Did you follow all of the instructions to the bottom of the page? Don’t worry; you can add more categories later.
- Setting WordPress Preferences – Read it all!
- Installing WordPress Themes – Now you are finally here. Read it all to the very bottom. It will take you longer to decide on choosing a theme than anything else. Once you have installed the theme, take the time to check how it looks in the various browsers, does it have a horizontal scroll? Does it validate? Do you know enough to tweak it until it works like it is supposed to or would you be better off choosing another one?
- Creating SEO Titles in WordPress – Did you follow all of the steps? Did you read to the BOTTOM of the page? Does your page title look like it is supposed to?
- Disable NoFollow Attribute in WordPress – If you don’t read to the very bottom, you will miss the bit about writing posts. After all, that is what your blog is for.
- WordPress Essentials
- WordPress Plugins
- Akismet Plugin – If you don’t want to be plagued by spam, read and configure this plugin.
- Sitemap Plugin – Read all the way to the bottom or you will end up with the word category beside all of your categories.
- WordPress Database Backup – An easy way to backup your database.
- WordPress Ready Contact Form – Do you want your readers to be able to contact you? Then you need a form for them to use. Don’t skip this part.
- How Trackback and Pingback works in WordPress Learn how they work, how to use them and when to use them.
- Moving a WordPress Blog – More advanced but someday you may want to move from a sub-domain to a domain all its own.
- Moving Servers with WordPress - This tutorial is written for those of you who have already upgraded your installation of WordPress to Version 2.7. 1
- Upgrading WordPress Program – Read and implement carefully, WordPress regularly updates and improves the program, so be ready with the instructions at hand.
- WordPress API – You will need this for configuring your Akismet Spam Plugin.
- WordPress Tips
- Desktop Blogging Clients - These are more advanced topics for you to explore, if you find you don’t like the WordPress interface to post your blogs, these desktop blogging clients are a safe alternative.
- Windows Live Writer
- Setting Up Windows Live Writer
- Creating Posts
- Inserting Images
- Options
- Publishing
- BlogDesk
- Installing BlogDesk
- BlogDesk Configuration
- Creating Posts in BlogDesk
- Inserting Images in Posts
- Publishing with BlogDesk
- BlogDesk Options
- BlogDesk Extras
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