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ReMix07 is sold out but don’t worry you can still keep up with what’s going on via the ReMIX07 Boston Facebook group! and what’s more you can continue the conversation after the show.
Sadly if you dont’ have a ticket you won’t be in with a chance to win a brand new Vespa LX 50 but Cheryl Wise - MVP - Expression Web will be crossing her fingers. Cheryl is presenting this year and we wish her good luck with the following session.
CSS and Standards Based Websites with Expression Web
Why Expression Web? See some of the things Expression Web can do to make creating cross browser websites easier with its sophisticated CSS tools and standards based output.
Another of the sessions you should look at if your interested in making the best of your site is IE7 + Web Stds by Molly Holzchlag
IE7 + Web Stds
In this session, gain insight into the design and development features that you can now use confidently to achieve cross-browser design. You’ll learn about CSS selectors that are now useful in progressive design; PNG transparency; and the techniques available to make sure your work looks great in IE6 and other browsers, too.
If you plan on blogging about ReMIX07 Boston, G. Andrew Duthie asks you to tag your post with remix07boston. You never know you might find your post being promoted amongst the best of the blogs on the ReMIX07 Boston site during and after the show. He also asks if you have an idea on just how interactive the conversation can get then either post your thoughts at the facebook group or contact him via:
http://blogs.msdn.com/gduthie/contact.aspx
Not only that you can download MIX07 session recordings. Each of the sessions include a camera feed of the presenter(s) alongside the demo feed. There are on-site interviews and videos featuring partner demos. Which you will see featured here as they are listed.
If you didn’t get in this year, there is always next year at MIX08
Fancy free resources? If your a Agency Web designer or Developer you should check out PHIZZPOP It’s a new part of MIX online and they want you to share and show off your work. Coming up on the site will be a national competion centred around design. You can watch a interview with some of the people from Acentimum that designed phizzpop and they tell you the ideas behind the site.
PS. If your at ReMix07 Boston they are sponsering a party Monday night.
The big news on ReMix07 Boston is that they are releasing the source code for much of the .NET Framework, plus built-in support in Visual Studio 2008 for debugging into Framework classes. In this videwo Shawn Burke from the .NET development platform team talks about the announcement, so visit the link to learn more about it.
Part of the Mix Online experiance is the videos at Visitmix University there are various videos on offer, personally I like the one about RSS feed.
Tip 12 - Scroll To The First Or Last Page Quickly
When you have a lot of pages open in Expression Web, the program will automatically produce scrolling arrows at the end of the page tabs, so you can scroll through your pages more easily. You can click the arrow repeatedly and each page passes by…..
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Tip 13 - Title Attributes (tags) in Expression Web
Small yellow pop-up messages that appear to explain the function of a button in most windows applications can be made to appear on your website. Using the ‘Title’ Attribute (tag). This attribute is designed to be used as an explanatory system for little-known acronyms….
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The Expression Web Interview we have this week is with Alex Tushinsky of Left to My Own Devices. Alex is well known for his FrontPage addons and has now made two new Expression Web addons for the community called, Media Manager 2007 and Embedded Media Fix.
Our EW Interview series with the leading lights of the Expression Web community give insights into the future of the program and are well worth reading.