Expression Web Guest Book

So you need a simple yet effective guest book for your expression web – web site? This is a very simple example that whilst working – needs to be tested well.

It is easy to change to suit your own needs.

http://www.expression-web-help.com/ExpressionWebHelpDownloads.aspx

Free expression web shopping cart

I have now completly rebuilt our expression web shopping cart.

If you have Microsoft access – then this free shopping cart is for you.

Have a look to see how easy it is and if you want the files drop into the forum and i will forward them to you no charge.

The data in the example is very basic and onlt there for visuals. And most of the links go nowhere, but are very easy to create

Free expression web shopping cart

Expression Web Forum Feed

I have updated our Expression Web forum feed (RSS)Its a very handy feature, which i use to keep tracks of what is going on in the forum and it means i dont have to keep visiting the forum to see whats going on. Each post is displayed with the title of the post also. I read mine via outlook 2007, but if you dont have this, you can find rss reader software by simply doing a Google search for rss reader.

Alternativly, you can just add this link to your favorites.

http://www.expression-web-designer-help.com/forum/default.asp

 

Regards

Jim

Expression web and asp.net controls.

I have been spending a great deal of time looking at many of the asp.net controls that ship with expression web.

File upload. Nice simple control to get images and other files upto your server.

membership control. Actually quite easy to get working if your host is supportive. However i also found a way to localise the concept where, you give the user a user name and password to gain entry to a specified protected folder/s. This is quite nice as you control who can go there.

Data views grid views and other database tools. Some will remember my xml shopping cart which is quite popular but not an easy set up. So  it though i would do the same with a gridview and an access database. Bingo, very basic but very simple shopping cart which is essentially 2 pages and a simple access database.

Outside of all this activity, i have been pushing expression web to the limits with XML – well i like xml it is so simple. But i digress, i say push its limits and that i have. A great friend and i have been building a monster 700 page xml driven web site that is near completion. The only real issue is the expression web slows to a crawl with this much data. We hope to publish in the very near future.

Everything i have written about is in my strange little head but i hope to write up some tutorials in the very near future.

Check out my expression web help forum for ongoing details.

www.expression-web-designer-help.com

Regards

 

JIM

New expression web tutorial for new expression web users

So you have come in search of expression web help, but cannot understand what on earth is going on! All this talk of Divs and CSS has left you feeling numb and confused!

Fear not help is at hand.

It pains me to think that some users are being left behind or feel excluded from using expression web due to a lack of understanding. Who are we to assume, that you will just slip into using expression web and create great sites.  It is wrong of me to assume that you just know what a div or css is.

So this new expression web tutorial is for 2 types of people. Those that don’t care and just want to be able to work the thing, and those that do care and want to understand the inner workings.

Tables: I feel sure you will know what they are and that they can help with page layout. It is familiar ground for frontpage users, so it seems right that somebody should offer a transitional tutorial showing how to use expression web within a table based layout. Note the word transitional. It means to help you move accross from FrontPage but it also means to help you move onto div based design.

This free expression web template tutorial takes you from a blank page through to creating pages from a dwt that you will have built. It is something like an hour long.

http://www.expression-web-designer-help.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2301&PID=14245#14245

Expression web shopping cart

I have now completed a shopping cart for expression web, and i am looking for some testers.

The cart looks like this

http://www.expression-web-help.com/ewh5/shoppingcart/category.aspx

Please note it is only for a guide, many of the links do not work although in the download  most do.

This cart is aimed at those who want something in between pay now paypal button and the full blown thing.

I use the term shopping cart loosely as this is actually a backend to integrate with mals-e.com.

So if you would like to test this free of charge, please let me know via the expression web forums.

www.expression-web-designer-help.com/forum

Thank you jim

expression web hosting from just $1/month

If you want hosting with asp.net v2 and v3, php v4 and v5 e-mail and plenty of buzzers and bells then the Parcom 99cent plan will get you up and running.

They don’t call the owner Crazy Dave for nothing.

Concerned about the quality of service? Trust me it is of the highest caliber. I host all my sites with parcom and have done for over 5 years. Any problems i have had, have been of my own making but Dave and his staff have always been very patient in resolving my issues.

What more could you want.

JIM

PHP in expression web

Expression web will soon support php!

This is great news for designers and really open up the capability of  expression web.

http://visitmix.com/blogs/TheSignal/The-Signal-Episode-1-PHP-Expression-Web-and-MIX-Crew/

JIM

Dynamic expression web, web site

Over the months, i have made reference to xml and the asp.net v2 data controls that ship with expression web.

Quietly and just for fun, i have been building a  dynamic web site with various examples of what can be done with expression web.

Expression web shopping cart.

It is quite possible to build a shopping cart for expression web using nothing more than an access database and good old EW.

I have in the past had example shopping carts but now have decided to create a fully working version where you can actually buy something! For example expression web templates are just £1.50 or an hour long tutorial for just £5.

The charges are only to help pay for bandwidth charges and have been kept puposefully low and wll remain so.

The expression web templates and tutorials in the shopping cart will be added to as time permits.

Remember it is just fun for me but if you need help, find me at www.expression-web-designer-help.com/forum

How to Check the Spelling of Different Languages in Expression Web

Microsoft Expression Web Language Pack is now available and supports the following:

English, Spanish, French
German, English, French, Italian
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
English, Korean
English, Japanese
Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Dutch
Catalan, English Spanish, Basque, French Galician, Portuguese
German, English, French, Italian

The packs can be downloaded from the link below

http://www.microsoft.com/expression/kc/tutorial.aspx?family=web&key=howtocheckthespelling