Expression Web Blog

New Free Content First Equal Height Expression Web Site Templates

Tina Clarke — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:00:28 +0000

With Christmas on the horizon, we have decided to gift the Expression Web community just that little bit early and help you prepare your websites all that little bit better for SEO and so increase your sales.

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 Tutorials at Any Expression Web Designs

Tina Clarke — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:50:41 +0000

New Expression Web Reports, View a Web Site Summary

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

New Free Setting up Expression Web eBook 4.0 SP2

Tina Clarke — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:59:29 +0000

New Free Setting up Expression Web eBook 4.0 SP2

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

Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web Ebook v 4.0.2

Tina Clarke — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 21:42:34 +0000

New Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web 4.0.2 EBook

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 Sale

Tina Clarke — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:33:55 +0000

With the advent of Service Packs 1 and 2 for Expression Web 4.0 this called for a major revision of our;

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

Undelete by Diskeeper saves the day

Tina — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:13:14 +0000

Undelete by Diskeeper

I was working away and decided to delete two folders, forgetting they were essential to the running of the website. I knew the recycle bin would not have the files, but then I remembered that I had Undelete from Diskeeper installed, AND I had remembered to reinstall it when I came across it in my files thinking I will probably need that knowing me. Sure enough I did and it saved my bacon.

What the Recycle bin wouldn’t retain Undelete had them there ready and waiting. I decided to blog about it as a thank you.

Diskeeper 2011 NFR giveaway winners

Tina — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 12:37:11 +0000

Random list of names for NFR Diskeeper Giveaway

These are the five winners of a NFR Diskeeper giveway offer thanks to Derek at Diskeeper whom they will be hearing from shortly.

The question asked to enter was how many licences have been sold which could be read on the Diskeeper homepage, during the course of the offer the amount changed from 39 to 40 millon not bad going.

I used random.org to generate a random list, as you can see here on the left. Thanks to all who entered, for those that won please let me know how you get along with your NFR giveway copy of Diskeeper by commenting here.

Transfer your domain from GoDaddy to Namecheap and help an elephant

Tina — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:54:09 +0000

Regardless of the subject matter, this is a lesson if you are in busines on how NOT to go about social media. Plus I heartily recommend no one use GoDaddy to begin with given their track record as a domain host and the feedback I have had.

I have used namecheap for years and its the best service I have had anywhere for anything at any time, and throughly recommend http://namecheap.com

As a namecheap member I got the below newsletter and decided to share it with my readers. If you are like minded its an excellent cost effective way of moving domain hosts right now, plus you do some good. The best bit is you get from under the practices of GoDaddy.

“It’s not often that we would disagree publicly with a competitor, but we at Namecheap are very disturbed by this video of a competitor killing an elephant for sport. Check out the ABC News Report (Warning: Very Graphic!)

We’ve decided to throw our support behind our Elephant friends by offering domain transfers at a price where we actually lose money.

Show your protest by saying BYEBYEGD again and transfer your domains to Namecheap for $4.99 for the next 24 hours through 11:59pm EST on 3/31/11 (limit 10 per user, valid for all com/net/org domains).

On top of that, we’ll donate $1 for each transfer to Save The Elephants at http://www.savetheelephants.org/

Use coupon code BYEBYEGD and let’s help the Elephants together!”

….Team Namecheap

Diskeeper 2011 NFR Giveaway

Tina — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:04:09 +0000

Diskeeper 2011

If you thought Diskeeper 2010 with Intellwrite was faster and smoother than the previous version, then you need to check out Diskeeper 2011.

With revolutionary InvisiTasking technology, Diskeeper 2011 works automatically in the background, with no negative performance impact. Automatic defragmentation improves computer performance without slowing other operations, and is recommended to maintain peak performance.

How do you obtain a Diskeeper 2011 NFR giveaway?

I have 3-5 copies of the latest version (NFR) available before it is generally available, do you want one? If so this is what you have to do.

THIS OFFER HAS NOW ENDED

I recently had to reinstall my OS and was working with Diskeeper 2009, I had not got around to installing the latest version at the time. However upon reinstalling the OS I had to put Diskeeper back and I put the 2010 version on and boy it was MUCH faster. Then Derek gave me the heads up about this lastest 2011 version and gave me a copy to try out. I can safely leave it running all the time now and things are running quite a bit smoother.

Expression Crash Tricks

Tina — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:18:27 +0000

When Expression Web or SharePoint Designer 2007 crashes there are a few simple things you can do to mitigate the event:

Preventive crash applications

First of all download the free applications for your versions of Expression Web or Sharepoint Designer 2007

Expression Web 4 Cleanup Utility – Works for Expression Web 4.0
Expression Web 3 Cleanup Utility – Works for Expression Web 3.0
EFP Cleaner with Expression® and SharePoint Designer® support – EW1 EW2 and Sharepoint Designer 2007

These drastically reduces crashes.

Open the version of fpcleaner for the version of Ew or SPD07 you are using. Do not open ew from your icons/start menu etc etc, this way you know EW is ‘clean’ to start off. Then I click both

‘Clear the Hidden “Temporary” Files’

and

‘Clear the Hidden Cache (*.web) Files’

Each time, so I recommend using these, and any time you have a crash even if ew (or sharepoint designer 2007) then goes from a ‘whiteout’ and appears stable again or reopens, close it down and open with the fpcleaner for your version.

Tips and Tricks for Expression Web crashes

Another point to note, sometimes but not always if I take away the ‘focus’ from the application by clicking on another open application or even opening one , and wait a minute. Sometimes it will steady so that I don’t lose the work I was working on. Another trick is to do Control Alt Delete – start Task Manager which opens the Windows Task Manager .. sometimes that ‘steady’s’ ew/spd07 as well but not always.

If you have a crash aversion tips let me know