Expression Web Blog

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.

By Tina Clarke Copyright 2007 All Rights Reserved

This new tutorial is about Opening a web site live on the server using FTP with Expression Web and then publishing the site on the server back to the hard drive. There are three steps to each section with graphics to illustrate the points made in the tutorial.

This week our Expression Web Interview is with Dennis DeRobertis of Expression Extras Dennis makes a SEO Expression Web Addon which contains EXTRAS - of course. It is a must have addon in your seo campaign.

Did you know there are seventeen Task Panes in Expression Web Learn how to use them to your best advantage. I personally perfer mine to be stacked and on the left. How do you like yours? 

I needed to do some screen shots with more advanced features and I had not had time to move SnagIT  my preferred screen capture tool from my beta computer to my new laptop. I’d heard that FireFox had a plug-in that could do this so I searched and found Screengrab v0.93. It was not as intuitive as I thought it would be, I needed to right click to be able to make selections and use the plugin but other than that it did the job.

If you can’t afford the sophisticated SnagIT, the free FireFox plug-in will help you on your way. Remember you have to download FF plug-ins within FireFox NOT Internet Explorer.