We now have Seven new  FREE Content First Equal Height Expression Web Site Templates available for you to download and use under Creative Commons Licence by the owners Tina Clarke and Pat Geary.

At this time we are only offering them from our FrontPage to Expression website. These Site Templates are for Intermediate and Advanced users only. Newbies might have problems coping with the restrictions caused by display issues due to how Expression Web (also FrontPage and SharePoint Designer 2007) cope with negative margins. Once you understand the restrictions the Site Templates are easy enough to work with.

Why should I bother with Content First Site Templates?

Simply SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and Accessbility are good enough reasons to perservere with the restrictions Expression Web puts on working with the Site Templates.

Presenting your CONTENT first (In the code) to the search engine increases your overall seo potential. Accessbility wise it means screen readers can get straight to the content.

What layouts are the Site Templates available in?

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

One and Two column Site Templates are available in Liquid and Fixed (1024px) layouts
Three column Site Template is only available a Fixed 1024px layout because of restrictions with coding.

The Site Templates are available for download as either a Web Package or a Zipped Web.
There are FULL instructions on How to Work with Content First Site Templates

If you use one of the templates please email us and let us know your link and your experiance with the Site Template we will feature your link on the content first site template page if you do.

If you like these Site Templates you might like to know about our other Site Templates which are also equally Free.

Our Original 12 Site Templates and our 5 Equal height Site Templates

What is the difference between an ordinary template and a Site Template in Expression Web?

Templates can be used in any application and you have install them within your web. Site Templates are downloaded DIRECTLY into Expression WEB itself so that they are right to hand when you need them, no messing about looking for where you download the latest template, simply use the menu in Expression Web for direct access along side the Expression Web own’s generic Site Templates.

New SuperPreview Online EW 4.0 SP1 and SP2

New Expression Web Snapshot EW 4.0 SP2

New Regular Expression Queries You can now buy six new bundles of cleaning queries for your site, each are $3 with the mixed cleaning bundle at $2, or you can buy all of them in the super bundle for $15

The Free Setting up Expression Web EBook 4.0 SP2 (revised Sept 2011) is now available. Updated to reflect the changes of the Service Packs 1 and 2 for EW 4.0.

You will also find the Setting up Expression Web Online Tutorials which cover all the versions of Expression Web have also been updated

With the advent of Service Packs 1 and 2 for Expression Web 4.0 we have now updated our Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web EBook to reflect this. Inline with the numbering of EW our version number of the eBook is now v4.02.

We have not only updated the eBook, and appended three new tutorials we have also included Three NEW DWT templates for your use.

Plus EBook owners will now have available to them SIX Regular Expression Query bundles. These normally sell for small amounts at Any Expression Web Designs

• TABLE CLEANING BUNDLE – $3
• ELL TD CLEANING BUNDLE – $3
• CELL TH CLEANING BUNDLE – $3
• BODY CLEANING BUNDLE – $3
• TEXT TAG CLEANING BUNDLE – $3
• MIXED CLEANING BUNDLE – $2
• SUPER CLEANING BUNDLE  - $15

Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web Ebook

So in honour of this we have today launched a new sale at the lowest ever price we have sold the ebook. $20 giving you a discount of $9 on our usual standard price.

You may not know but we have always offered Free updates to ebook owners of the next version of the ebook. So if you buy the ebook NOW, whilst the sale is on, when our revision is published you will be entitled to get the new version free of charge and any further updates too.

What else do you get apart from the ebook?

There are three new templates, plus  new collection of Expression Web queries. All designed to make your life easier. There has never been a better time to upgrade from FrontPage to Expression Web so why not start now and

BUY the Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web Ebook at the sale price of $20

Our Free Expression Web Community Toolbar is updated every few days. As soon as we have a respectable amount of new links gathered we post the new links to a New Links sub menu and put the previous new links in their categories.

We cover each of the Expression Web versions 1, 2, 3 and 4 as well as the Expression applications.

• Expression Design
• Expression Blend
• Expression Encoder

as well as Contests/Giveaways and Offers for Expression Web 3.0 and 4.0.

We let you know about Expression Web Communities, Webcasts and Live Events.

We also cover Web Design and there are other features that let you keep up todate with tweets, blogs and Facebook plus more besides.

If you want all the Expression Web links to hand and don’t want to have to be bothered to go spend hours searching for lists, forums, ebooks, add-ins and to find out about new links then the toolbar is tailor made for you. It works in Internet Explorer Safari and FireFox. Watch out for Twitter Annoucements to say it has been updated via @expressionweb or just refresh the toolbar via the drop down under the logo on the toolbar, or via a post here.

Learn more about Expression Web and CSS – Information about CSS

You can also find it on the Microsoft Expression Web Gallery

The Free Setting up Expression Web 3.0 Ebook has also been updated and revised

Why should you bother to follow the free setting up Expression Web ebooks?

Every programme has a settings feature, the designers provide different setups for the user so a user can ‘do it their way’. By choosing the defaults by which you set your application, you are therefore more in control. However, what if you don’t know what methods to choose? That is where the Setting up Expression Web Ebooks come in. Designed with the newbie in mind and even intermediate users who can tweak their way around the settings but let them stand to keep them reminded and nudged about their coding. Therefore providing a best practice experience to help guide you to doing things the Right Way.

If you spot any errors or omissions please drop me a line.

Thanks to all who took part in the Design a 404 page competition congratulations to our winners
-Apologies for the delay in announcing the winners – computer issues-

What I was looking for was a visual impact but with words that made the 404 page FUN.

Our 1st prize winner Marsha Bryant who wins a full version of Expression Web 3.0 has accomplished just that.
Her quirky design really made me laugh and want to look further, it also encompassed directions to help the visitor find the page they were looking for. Congratulations Marsha and well done.

Our 2nd prize winner is Rayburn Taylor who wins Volumes l and ll of my Expression Web Tips Ebooks. Rayburn had five entries, however this one stood out, it has visual impact  but is short and sweet congratulations Rayburn.

Our 3rd prize winner is Jill Edwards who wins a copy of Volume l of my Expression Web Tips Ebook, Jill just edged out a fellow entry for third prize as her entry was easy to read. Not quite the visual impact of the first two winners but the puns spiced up the page and made me smile. She had three entries, congratulations Jill.

The there were not many entries overall, it was a fun contest and we will have more in the future with similar prizes.

Standard price is $29 you can now obtain it for $22.