Free Site Template Layouts

January 17th, 2010
Site Templates

Site Templates

Expression Web has included within it, generic Site Templates which can be accessed via File – New – Web Site – Templates in EW 1.0 & 2.0 and Site – New – Templates in 3.0. However these generic Site Templates leave something to be desired. After I was inspired by a post on the xweb team blog to write an in-depth tutorial on how to Register Custom Templates in Expression Web Pat Geary and I via our joint site Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web decided it was time to produce some basic layout templates for every one to enjoy within their own Expression Web programs. Based on Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor for Expression Web produced by Webassit but no longer in production we have created 12 Site Templates which come with a linked style sheet and dwt and commented in-depth for your ease of use. Included is a search box and contact form with instructions on their usage and full instructions on working with these and other aspects of the site. You can download your very own set at Expression Web Site Templates.

The Site Templates come in four flavours

  • One column, with top navigation, header, and footer
  • Two column, with left sidebar, top navigation, header, and footer
  • Two column, right sidebar, top navigation, header, and footer
  • Three columns, left and right sidebar, top navigation

Within each of these basic structures come the following modes;

Fixed to 800px - Page and column widths are set with pixels and do not resize if the browser window or browser text size changes.

Fixed to 1024px – Page and column widths are set with pixels and do not resize if the browser window or browser text size changes.

Liquid – Page and column widths are set with percentages which allows them to resize when the browser window changes with the exception of the three column templates which has the left and right side columns set in pixel widths.

You can download them in zipped packs of 3 for easy use. Full instructions on the precise place to download them to, to ensure you can access them from
within Expression Web itself is provided. These Site Template are FREE and a gift to the Expression Web community. They will work with all versions of Expression Web.

Included are the following pages, which explain why you should have each of these basic pages in site, and how you go about making or writing content for each of them.

When you have downloaded your Expression Web Site Templates and tweaked the basic layout with your own colours and graphics, please let us know your site link and we will include it as an example of what you can do. If you have any questions or feedback please contact us.

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Expression Web Xmas 2009 and New Year 2010 Giveaways

January 16th, 2010

The winners are:

  • Emily Gulledge – First Prize Expression Web 3.0 Product Key
  • Lorie Johnson – Second Prize Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web Ebook v2.0
  • Joyce Reid -   Second Prize  Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web Ebook v2.0
  • Mike LeGay -    Third Prize Expression Web Tips Ebooks Vol l & ll
  • Miguel Gin -   Third Prize  Expression Web Tips Ebooks Vol l & ll
  • Gaurav Kale -   Third Prize  Expression Web Tips Ebooks Vol l & ll
  • Debbie Miller -   Special Prize Spawn for Expression Web
  • Les Bain -   Special Prize Spawn for Expression Web

These prizes are not to be missed.

One fully working copy of Expression Web 3.0
Two Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web Ebooks v2.0  (fully updated for EW 3.0)
Three Expression Web Tips Ebooks Vol l & ll  (fully updated for EW 3.0)

We did want to complete the rest of the twelve days of Christmas however we had to stop at the third day ;0) We did manange to sneak in a couple of special extras though.

Two Spawn Addins for Expression Web for versions 1.0 or 2.0 with a free upgrade to version 3.o when it becomes available (Note: The Spawn addin for EW 3.0 is now out)

Expression Web Xmas 2009/New Year 2010 Giveaway dates:

23rd December 2009 -  15th January 2010

So if you want to cheer yourself up for Christmas and the new yea,r enter now to be in with a chance of something nice to play with, which no true geek can resist. (new software)

What do you have to do to enter the drawing?

In YOUR OWN WORDS write about our giveaway.

You can write about it on your

  • Blog
  • Website
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

In fact anywhere you have a online presence. Then when you have done so, fill in the form on the link above with your Name, email address and the link to your write-up and we will enter you into the drawing for the giveaway. Plus we will list your link on our website at the end of the giveaway.

For FULL details see Expression Web Giveaways

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

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Express Yourself for less with Expression Studio

January 8th, 2010

30% OFF Expression Web Studio and Expression Web 3.0. Limited time offer from Microsoft Online Store – USA only

THE OFFER HAS BEEN EXTENDED AGAIN FROM THE 8th TO 31st

30% discount is a limited time offer valid through Jan 8th, 2009 11:59 p.m.
Expression Studio 3.0 Full – $599.95 – $419.96
Expression Studio 3.0 Upgrade – $349.95 – $244.96

Includes Expression Web, Expression Blend, Expression Designer, and Expression Encoder

Expression Web 3.0 full version – $149.00 – $104.30
Expression Web 3.0 Upgrade - $79.00 – $55.30
Note: Prior to installing Expression Web 3, you will need to uninstall any trial versions and pre-release software

  • No promo code required
  • Discount applies before applicable tax and shipping charges
  • Limit 5 per customer
  • Not valid on previous orders or at Microsoft Store retail locations
  • Cannot be combined with any other offer or promotion.

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New Free Expression Web DWT for Xmas 2009

December 27th, 2009
Cracked Ice DWT.

Cracked Ice DWT

A new free Expression Web DWT called Cracked Ice DWT is now available for download. Brought to you from Any Expression Web Designs for Xmas 2009.

Along with the free template you can use it to follow the new tutorial Register your Custom Template in Expression Web 3.0, the tutorial also lets you know you can do the same with the previous versions of EW 1.0 and 2.0. Never have to go searching for your favourite designs again.

NOTE: Watch out for a series of free basic Site templates that you can be sure are well coded coming your way soon. Start off the right way.

Any Expression have also made available at the Microsoft Gallery their three Setting up Expression Web eboooks for each version.

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Support Expression Web 3.0 User Twibbon

December 10th, 2009

Do you use Expression Web 3.0?

Then show your support with the Expression Web User Twibbon

supportors

As you can see above Twibbon inserts a premade icon into your avatar. You can use this for Twitter or Facebook.

When you support this cause your avatar will be overlaid with the Twibbon above and a support Tweet will posted on your behalf saying:

Support Expression Web 3 User, add a #twibbon to your avatar now! – http://twibbon.com/join/Expression-Web-30-User

If You would like to follow @tinaclarke @patgeary or @expressionweb let us know you are also a Expression Web 3.0 User also and we will follow you back.

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Expression Web Birthday Giveaways

November 30th, 2009

Want to know what’s in the bag of Expression Web goodies?

1st prize is:

A fully working copy of Expression Web 3.0 courtesy of:
Steve Guttman – Product Unit Manager, Expression Web

There will be ONE lucky winner!

2nd Prize is:

Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web Ebook v2.0  (fully updated for EW 3.0) Courtesy of:
Pat Geary- Microsoft MVP – Expression Web and Tina Clarke – Microsoft MVP – Expression Web

There will be TWO lucky winners

3rd Prize is:

Expression Web Tips Ebooks Vol l & ll  (fully updated for EW 3.0) courtesy of:
Tina Clarke – Microsoft MVP – Expression Web

There will be THREE lucky winners

The Expression Web Giveaway Winners have now been announced

Now if you are unlucky not to get your hands on all these Expression Web goodies, never fear, we will be holding  xmas draw with the same goodies, and perhaps something extra just because its Christmas!

Watch this space:)

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Expression Web 3.0 Service Pack 1.0 improvements and resolutions

November 21st, 2009

Expression Web 3.0 service pack 1.0 is ready and waiting

How do I know if the service pack has installed?

On the Help menu click the ‘About’ selection:

If Expression Web 3 SP1 is not installed, the following version number appears:

(English Langauge) Microsoft Expression Web 3 Version 3.0.1762.0
(Non-English Languages) Microsoft Expression Web 3 Version 3.0.1773.0

If Expression Web 3 SP1 is already installed, the following version number appears:

Microsoft Expression Web 3 Version 3.0.3813.0

What improvements are provided by this service pack?

Extensibility

Add-ins are BACK – lets hope the developers get busy!

Root-relative links

Support for root-relative hyperlinks has been fixed, this is great if you are making a WordPress theme and using Expression Web to do it, now you don’t have to hardcode absolute links anymore!

PHP files that do not use the *.php file name extension

Adds support for Drupal and CakePHP template files. Expression Web 3 SP1 now recognizes .module, .install, .inc, and .ctp as valid PHP extensions.

Application color scheme

The black/gray skin has been improved – though the background on the folder list needs to be lighter. Plus you can select Windows colour scheme instead of the default, however the results might not be what you expect. Your Windows colour scheme might work on the rest of Windows, but it won’t always fully reflect what you expect within Expression Web, on balance I prefer my Windows colour scheme on Windows, and not the white out I get in Expression Web, so its back to the default black/gray for me. If you want to do some experimenting then go to Tools – Application Options – and tick ‘Use your current Windows colour scheme’.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 META tag and Web Slice support

New Code snippets include:

  • Meta tags specific to IE8
  • Web Slice code sample

To access them either press Ctrl+Enter in Code view or go to the Tools menu – Page Editor Options – Code Snippets

What issues are resolved in this service pack?

  • When you use the Undo feature and multiple tasks were undone.
  • After draging an image from the Folder List panel into the Code view of a page a invalid link is generated.
  • Enables you to select text in the Design view of a page more easily and more accurately.
  • Nonstandard or corrupted fonts that are installed on your computer caused a crashing issue.
  • Tags that begin with <?php are renamed after you rename a file.
  • Japanese characters are altered.
  • The source file is deleted after you copy a file from one instance of Expression Web 3.0 and then paste the file into another instance of Expression Web 3.0.
  • Restores the ability to drag files into a selected folder in the Folder List panel.
  • Enables connections to each destination without restarting the application when multiple publishing destinations are specified on the same FTP server and when only the user credentials are different for those destinations.
  • Workflow between Expression Web and Team Foundation Server has had several problems fixed.
  • Shows the correct file status in Publishing view after you publish a site.
  • Updates the file status and publishing log when you use the Publish Selected Files command to publish one or more files. Plus, the publishing progress is displayed in the Publishing Status panel.
  • Several fixes that make sure that pages accurately display in SuperPreview.

Find and Replace Bug
This was a bug inExpression Web 2.0 and 1.0 and in 3.0 before the service pack however this is now fixed.

In the Find and Replace Dialog box in the HTML Tags Tab, when using any tag such as for example Font in the Find Tag: drop down box, and using Remove Tag for the Replace Action: drop down box and replacing said font tags, instead of the font tags being removed, when the font tags are around a hyperlink, the hyperlink is removed, if you then apply the Replace action the font tag is removed but at the expense of the hyperlink.

What issues are not resolved in this service pack?

Doctypes and Thumbnails
This is a bug that has not yet been addressed if this happens to you, then please add your comments.

Supported Operating Systems:

  • Windows 7
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows XP Service Pack 3

Other language Expression Web 3.0 service pack 1.0 downloads (direct downloads)

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