Expression Web Blog

You know when your rushed off your feet and don’t have time for anything? Well I had to make time to tell you that Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor for Expression Web pre-release trial is available for free download. It will retail for $99.99 to begin with, so don’t waste time. I’ll be showing you the template I made with it shortly and a more indepth review.

 I’m in the middle of moving house, so I can’t get everything done as quickly as I would like but it will be worth the wait I promise <smiles>

I have finally launched my latest Expression Web Tips Vol ll Ebook containing twenty-six Original Tips that can not be found elsewhere. The ebook is priced once again at $7  the same as Volume l. However if you buy both together you can obtain them for $13 with $1 reduction. I keep the price low so that everyone can afford them.

Chris Leeds the well known Content Seed CMS developer who is also a Microsoft MVP - FrontPage gave Any Expression Web Designs an interview and told us about the book he has written Expression Web Step by Step

We asked him about any new projects and he kindly told us about a special build of ContentSeed that will be coming out shortly. He also told us about his new form handler, which we look forward to hearing more about.

You can read the full Expression Web Interview with Chris Leeds and drop any comments back here on the blog.

I told you previously about ReMix07 Boston - An ongoing conversation about Web Design in that post I mentioned Cheryl D. Wise my fellow MVP who is now a Microsoft MVP - Visual Developer - Expression. Cheryl was invited to talk at ReMix07 Boston and now the videos of her talks are available for viewing on Building CSS Based Websites with Expression Web

Ben Ramsey is an attendee at the Microsoft Web Development Summit 2007 on his blog he reports on the summit amongst his comments are some interesting points directly relevant to Expression Web and the next version. In particular the addition of features to implement PHP Syntax Support within Expression Web .

Wayne Smith a Expression Web Product Manager gave a demo at the Web Development Summit (N.B. Wayne’s demos are always good and not just because he’s British, it’s because he is passionate about what he does) where he talked about PHP features and implementation.

The comments Ben makes are not many but what PHP developers would like to see is a really a good showing with PHP.   They don’t need a full debugger or anything but they need enough where writing PHP scripts is fully supported. It definitely needs to become a major PHP IDE. Lets hope Microsoft will go all out on this front and not trickle features in over the coming versions going all out on the first update would mean that many PHP coders would sit up and take a keen interest in Expression Web and the more people using EW the more ideas are generated.

This week our Expression Web Interview is with Andrew Brisbane. Andrew develops FrontPage and Expression Web Addons to enhance our web mastering experiance. He is updating many of his FrontPage Addons to work in Expression Web. If you have a particular Expression Web Addon Wish let him know.

How to paste clean content from Word or other office products the quick way

Learn how to clean content complete with hyperlinks but no formatting from the document you just copied from into your Expression Web Page. Follow the methods outlined in the tutorial for an easy life.

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