Expression web help

If you really want to get in the know about the latest technologies that we are currently using and some of the future, you really don’t want to miss the MIX UK07 event in London.

If your quick, you can get and early bird discount - saving £100!

This 2 day event is going to sell out fast, so if you want to see the likes of

Scott Guthrie and George Moore (Microsoft) and some of the Industries greats who will be talking. You best not hang around.

Scott Guthrie is scheduled to give a keynote speech.

More info?

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/mix07/default.aspx

If you have tried to bold a few words in a paragraph and end up with the whole paragraph going bold, you have the style application set to manual. Change it to auto and the problem is solved.

A short tutorial.

http://www.expression-web-designer-help.com/boldTextTutorial/Bold-Text.htm

If you want to display database information on your web pages using asp.net and expression web, there are various way to do it.

Our latest expression web tutorial explains how to populate a dropdown list from a database and then show the details relevant to the item clicked using a details view control, although a grid view control can be used if you prefer.

http://www.expression-web-designer-help.com/dropDisplay/Populate-Dropdown-from-database.htm

Probably the easiest asp.net control to use, the adrotator control allows you to display a different image each time the page is loaded/reloaded.

http://www.expression-web-designer-help.com/adRotator/using_the_ad_rotator.htm

A basic introduction to using the control

If you are having difficulties with expression web asp.net (aspx) pages displaying, you might like to check to see if you have 2 versions of asp installed in your hosting control panel. If you do, uninstall the asp version in favour of asp.net v2.

I have suffered this problem myself. Our main site, http://www.expression-web-designer-help.com/ uses asp to power our forums. http://www.expression-web-designer-help.com/forum/ This has led to problems with our xml examples on the same domain!

This page which is xml content http://www.expression-web-designer-help.com/xmltutorial/twoexamples.aspx often just hangs until the server times out but our shopping cart examples, hosted on a different domain function without any problems.

Expression web shopping carts need not cost you anything and the bonus, unlike 3rd party shopping carts can be seamlessly blended into your expression web, web design.

Taking the northwind traders database out of access, i have created a sample site http://www.expression-web-help.com/laidback/ProductListPagecat1.aspx and purchase page http://www.expression-web-help.com/laidback/beverages.aspx and a contact page http://www.expression-web-help.com/laidback/employees.aspx

All of this was simple to do using just expression web and access with a little bit of XML.

I hope to write up a tutorial in the near future.

May 2006 saw the first CTP1 release of Expression web (then known as expression web designer) the CTP1 was a limited sneak preview for what has become expression web.

I was lucky to get hold of a CTP1 and immediately set out on the journey of discovery.

Very quickly, we saw expression web reviews popping up all over the place. For me at the time, it seemed that many of the reviewers were looking through the eyes of another editor, looking for the cracks in Expression web, ready to renounce the product as a glorified FrontPage, eager to expose its perceived inability to live upto its remit. But slowly, one by one each review conceded that the product was highly capable of doing what it was designed to do - produce valid, accessible web sites.

Even now, with many of the minor issues of a first release exposed, expression web holds its own. Sure, i have seen a fair share of hissy fits, much throwing the dummy out of the pram, you know the types, “Why won’t expression web do this?” “I might as well stick with FrontPage” or “EW doesn’t do that, i going to try Dreamweaver! The stark reality being that the user in question probably didn’t fully appreciate how FP or for that matter DW worked! These are the type of user who want a program that will do what they want to do without ever really knowing what it is they really want to do!

I suppose in some respects, expression web is no different that Global warming or Carbon foot prints! You will never get on top of it if you don’t change your ways. Opening the box and expecting to produce a valid web site is a tall order but one that expression web can deliver. However, bringing the old habits of FrontPage will quickly see you drowning under non compliant code.

There is much talk of converting old FrontPage built sites into valid expression web web sites and i have to stop and ask myself why. Why would you want to convert a code bloated, out of date FP web site? Expression web presents the opportunity to re-create your online presence. A real chance to slim down your code. You should take this opportunity to completely rebuild your web site from the ground up! If you think that’s hard work, go ahead and try converting, you will quickly understand why i suggest a total re-build.

Have fun.

JIM