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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

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