Posts Tagged ‘Expression Web 3.0’

Expression Web Birthday Giveaways

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Want to know what’s in the bag of Expression Web goodies?

1st prize is:

A fully working copy of Expression Web 3.0 courtesy of:
Steve Guttman – Product Unit Manager, Expression Web

There will be ONE lucky winner!

2nd Prize is:

Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web Ebook v2.0  (fully updated for EW 3.0) Courtesy of:
Pat Geary- Microsoft MVP – Expression Web and Tina Clarke – Microsoft MVP – Expression Web

There will be TWO lucky winners

3rd Prize is:

Expression Web Tips Ebooks Vol l & ll  (fully updated for EW 3.0) courtesy of:
Tina Clarke – Microsoft MVP – Expression Web

There will be THREE lucky winners

The Expression Web Giveaway Winners have now been announced

Now if you are unlucky not to get your hands on all these Expression Web goodies, never fear, we will be holding  xmas draw with the same goodies, and perhaps something extra just because its Christmas!

Watch this space:)

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Expression Web 3.0 Service Pack 1.0 improvements and resolutions

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

Expression Web 3.0 service pack 1.0 is ready and waiting

How do I know if the service pack has installed?

On the Help menu click the ‘About’ selection:

If Expression Web 3 SP1 is not installed, the following version number appears:

(English Langauge) Microsoft Expression Web 3 Version 3.0.1762.0
(Non-English Languages) Microsoft Expression Web 3 Version 3.0.1773.0

If Expression Web 3 SP1 is already installed, the following version number appears:

Microsoft Expression Web 3 Version 3.0.3813.0

What improvements are provided by this service pack?

Extensibility

Add-ins are BACK – lets hope the developers get busy!

Root-relative links

Support for root-relative hyperlinks has been fixed, this is great if you are making a WordPress theme and using Expression Web to do it, now you don’t have to hardcode absolute links anymore!

PHP files that do not use the *.php file name extension

Adds support for Drupal and CakePHP template files. Expression Web 3 SP1 now recognizes .module, .install, .inc, and .ctp as valid PHP extensions.

Application color scheme

The black/gray skin has been improved – though the background on the folder list needs to be lighter. Plus you can select Windows colour scheme instead of the default, however the results might not be what you expect. Your Windows colour scheme might work on the rest of Windows, but it won’t always fully reflect what you expect within Expression Web, on balance I prefer my Windows colour scheme on Windows, and not the white out I get in Expression Web, so its back to the default black/gray for me. If you want to do some experimenting then go to Tools – Application Options – and tick ‘Use your current Windows colour scheme’.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 META tag and Web Slice support

New Code snippets include:

  • Meta tags specific to IE8
  • Web Slice code sample

To access them either press Ctrl+Enter in Code view or go to the Tools menu – Page Editor Options – Code Snippets

What issues are resolved in this service pack?

  • When you use the Undo feature and multiple tasks were undone.
  • After draging an image from the Folder List panel into the Code view of a page a invalid link is generated.
  • Enables you to select text in the Design view of a page more easily and more accurately.
  • Nonstandard or corrupted fonts that are installed on your computer caused a crashing issue.
  • Tags that begin with <?php are renamed after you rename a file.
  • Japanese characters are altered.
  • The source file is deleted after you copy a file from one instance of Expression Web 3.0 and then paste the file into another instance of Expression Web 3.0.
  • Restores the ability to drag files into a selected folder in the Folder List panel.
  • Enables connections to each destination without restarting the application when multiple publishing destinations are specified on the same FTP server and when only the user credentials are different for those destinations.
  • Workflow between Expression Web and Team Foundation Server has had several problems fixed.
  • Shows the correct file status in Publishing view after you publish a site.
  • Updates the file status and publishing log when you use the Publish Selected Files command to publish one or more files. Plus, the publishing progress is displayed in the Publishing Status panel.
  • Several fixes that make sure that pages accurately display in SuperPreview.

Find and Replace Bug
This was a bug inExpression Web 2.0 and 1.0 and in 3.0 before the service pack however this is now fixed.

In the Find and Replace Dialog box in the HTML Tags Tab, when using any tag such as for example Font in the Find Tag: drop down box, and using Remove Tag for the Replace Action: drop down box and replacing said font tags, instead of the font tags being removed, when the font tags are around a hyperlink, the hyperlink is removed, if you then apply the Replace action the font tag is removed but at the expense of the hyperlink.

What issues are not resolved in this service pack?

Doctypes and Thumbnails
This is a bug that has not yet been addressed if this happens to you, then please add your comments.

Supported Operating Systems:

  • Windows 7
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows XP Service Pack 3

Other language Expression Web 3.0 service pack 1.0 downloads (direct downloads)

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Expression Web Community Toolbar

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

Expression Web Community Toolbar

Announcing the latest feature from FrontPage to Expression Web founders Tina Clarke and Pat Geary, Microsoft MVPs – expression Web.

Our  NEW Expression Web Community Toolbar

The title says it all, a toolbar you can install into your browser for FREE! Enabling you to find Expression Web site links, tweets and feeds not to mention toolbar gadgets like the handy calculator. We also include a varied amount of web design links for tools and help to enhance your website.

We also want to hear back from YOU! We would like suggested links for the Expression Web Links and Web Design Links features that you think are worthy to be included. If there isn’t a category already allocated, please suggest a catagory that you think would be suitable.

You can find out more at the above, why not get your Expression Web Community Toolbar today?

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Expression Web 3.0 insights

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Expression Web 3.0 and why you should upgrade now to Expression Web 2.0

These are the three known links about Expression Web 3.0

One of the comments from somasegar’s blog asked if there was a plan going forward to unify them into a consistent UI framework/experience/codebase.

Steve Guttman replies (Steve manages the Expression Web product team)

“With respect to the interface of Expression Web and the Expression products–our objective is to unify the Expression applications under a single UI framework. As you can imagine, with a program having a lot of native, Win32 code, it’s a challenge to port that code base to a new UI paragidm. Expression Web 3 is our first, significant step in that direction. As folks have noted, SuperPreview (as it was written from scratch), uses the Blend UI framework. The Expression Web 3 UI uses significant parts of this framework to achieve it’s look and feel. All the new features (Insert Silverlight, Silverlight Video, Deep Zoom) are built with the Blend framework (you can tell by the dialogs). However, there are still quite a few remaining Win32 dialogs. These will be ported in future versions of the application until Expression Web is fully integrated into the framework.”

This means that a lot of things that worked before won’t work under the new unified UI framework, this can affect quite a few things when the coding of the program itself has to be changed. As Steve states at the end of his comment not everything will be ported into Expression Web 3.0 for this version. It also certainly means that none of the current Expression Web addons will work in EW 3.0 either.

So to my mind, if you like the CURRENT features of Expression Web 2.0 you should upgrade NOW. Since the SuperPreview will also be available as a standalone FREE version, you won’t be missing out on that particular new feature.

You can obtain a 30-day trial of Expression Web 2.0 to try it out.

When it comes to upgrading you can upgrade not only from Expression Web 1.0 or 2.0 but you may also be eligible to do so if you have a registered version of any of the following products:-

  • Adobe Creative Suite – any version
  • Adobe/Macromedia Flash or Director – any version
  • Adobe/Macromedia Dreamweaver – any version
  • Adobe GoLive – any version
  • Microsoft Office – any version
  • Microsoft FrontPage® – any version
  • Quark QuarkXPress – any version

According to somasegar’s blog Expression Web 3.0 will be out this Summer, which means about the next eight weeks or so, so don’t wait too long.

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