Expression Web Blog

Our latest Interview is with Anna Ullrich a Microsoft Expression Web Forum Moderator. Anna’s insight into Expression Web serves the community well. We were especially delighted to learn that when answering our last question she let us know that she is -

 ”Also, I’m currently leading an initiative to have a subsite that’s a part of http://expression.microsoft.com  that will be dedicated solely to support FrontPage users transitioning from FrontPage to Expression Web.”

Why are we delighted? Well as you might know from all the recent posts lately <grin> Pat Geary and I have written a Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web Class and Ebook the class of which has just started, though there is still time to sign up. The ebook will be available next week.

It is the best time to sign up for this as the price is half what it will normally be at $39.50.

Register now: http://starttoweb.com/classes/fp-ew.php

So if your on a mission to transition from FrontPage to Expression Web, you could not do better than to start now, no matter how large your site is, the best time to update it, is always right now. It can only get larger, and the larger it is, the more unwieldy maintenance you have to perform.

So like Anna indicates, cleaning up your sites, and moving from FrontPage to Expression Web is the Next Big Thing in the world of FrontPage and Expression Web. Take this chance to get ahead start on the rest, at half the price.

Steve Easton’s FREE FPCleaner v.3.5.0.0 is now available for download.

Do not let the name FPCleaner lull you into thinking this is just for FrontPage. Expression Web 1.0 or 2.0 and Sharepoint Designer are also included within it’s collection of web editors that it will spring clean. This handy little application has saved so much time for so many. It is a timely announcement as well, when everyone’s next big thing is cleaning code. Very handy to have when working on all the pages of your site if your Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web.

 What does it do? FPCleaner removes the clutter left behind, and a few other things besides.

• Restore Default Toolbars and Menus
• Change the “Open Last Web” Setting
• Clear the Hidden “Temporary” Files
• Clear the Hidden Web Cache files (*.web)
• Clear the Find/Replace MRU List (New addition)
• Start - Displays a button for either FrontPage® or Expression Web® or SharePoint Designer® or one for each if installed, on the right side of the FPCleaner panel. Choose the one you want to launch and FPCleaner will then close.
   
  This application is essential for a smoother working enviroment and what’s more it’s free. So what are you waiting for?

Pad Gallagher, is one of the newest members of the Expression Web team and his first post to the xweb blog is all about cleaning messy code with Expression Web Queries This is a post I am glad to see, and I’ll be keen to note what else Pad is going to come up with. I wrote about Expression Web Queries in my latest tutorial. This is something I go into greater detail with in the Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web Class and Ebook  Pat Geary and I are writing which will be available August 30th.

If you have come up with a method for cleaning up messy code using Expression Web (or any free third party tool or addon) please let me know.

Fantasic news, Webassist have brought down the price of  Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor for Expression Web to the NEW LOW price of $49.99. Which is just the right time to get it, along with registering for our new Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web Class and Ebook which is half price for this first course session…

It will not be offered at this price again.

Take advantage while you can, even if you can’t make the course fully, you STILL get the ebook too and can always refer back to it. Course members will be able to obtain ebook updates for free for the next year too.

Are you struggling to convert your FrontPage site from its themes, shared borders and navigation bots and perhaps other web component bots, to Expression Web’s Standard compliant way of doing things?

Do you want to know how to accomplish this feat and with as much ease as possible, to get to grips with the tools Expression Web offers and to produce sites Google will smile on?

Then you need to know about the following:- Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web Class and Ebook

Available :August 30th for the special introductory price of $39.50.

Instructors: Tina Clarke Microsoft MVP - FrontPage and Pat Geary Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

Prerequisite:

• Installed Expression Web 1.0 or 2.0 - Or you can download the 60 day trial version of EW 2.0 from the Microsoft Expression Web Site. Make sure that you obtain and use the registration key or your trial will end before the full trial period.
• Firefox with html tidy extension
• Backed up your Website twice (Instructions in the Ebook)
• Completed the Introductory Questionnaire
• Downloaded and installed Steve Easton’s FPCleaner

Prior Experience:

• A website made with FrontPage (any version) with a local copy of your website on your hard drive to use in the class
• Have read and implemented either EW 1.0 or EW 2.0 Setting up Ebooks
• Chosen your template from the six choices provided

Ebook:

Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web (Included with class, do not purchase separately.) Ebook Only (without class) available one week after class starts

Coursework includes:

Preparation

• Installing EW
• Backing up

Cleanup Preparations

• Making CU Toolbar
• Making Queries

Removal Preparations

• Redundant graphics
• Save Navigation
• Remove Themes…
• DL Web Package
• Preserve Regions
• Insert DocType
• Remove bots

Pages Preparation

• Import Web Package
• Use Cleanup Toolbar
  • Compatibility
  • Clean Tables
  • Accessible Tables
  • Apply XHTML
• Run Queries

Revising Pages

• Preview in browser
• Replace Bots
• Compatibility Reports
• Accessibility Reports
• CSS Reports
• Navigation
  • Accessible Nav
  • Make Include Pages
  • Insert Include Pages
• Forms
• Add Semantic Markup
  • Heading Tags
• Add Metas Tags
• Validation
• Robots File
• About DWTs
• Use Site Summary

Do you have my Setting up Expression Web 1.0 Ebook? If so you might want to get the updated version.

Do you have Expression Web 2.0? In that case you will need my new Setting up Ebook for Expression Web 2.0.

There are a few new settings to watch out for and tweak and the new F ree Ebook tells you how to do just that.

 Set yourself up the right way with this F R E E ebook for the Expression Web communties