The smart way to learn Microsoft Expression Web 4 -- one step at a time! Experience learning made easy -- and quickly teach yourself how to create dynamic, standards-based Web sites. With Step by Step, you set the pace -- building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Build your site with customizable templates -- or create your own Adjust settings in Expression Web 4 to create different sites Add Photoshop files, Microsoft Silverlight video, and .wmv files Use CSS, HTML, and XHTML to manage site style and accessibility Connect to servers using Microsoft ASP.NET and PHP Choose the right publishing method for your scenario Your Step by Step digital content includes: All the books practice files -- ready to download and put to work. Fully searchable online edition of this book -- with unlimited access on the Web. Video tutorials illustrating important procedures and concepts

Provides information on creating rich user interfaces for Microsoft Silverlight-based applications with Microsoft Expression Blend 4 --

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you’ll learn how to build flexible, easy-to-maintain, standards-based websites with Microsoft Expression Web 3. Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll master the entire process, from concept through delivery. You’ll learn powerful ways to plan, design, construct, and even redesign websites that are simple to manage and easy to repurpose. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a strong real-world foundation for success, no matter what kind of site you’re building! Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Expression Web 3 tasks. Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge. By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion. Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks. Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them Learn how to... Build your first Expression Web 3 website in just five minutes Establish work processes for building standards-based sites faster, with far less work Write error-free code quickly and easily with Code view and IntelliSense Create hyperlinks that simplify navigation, perform actions, and send commands Understand, create, and modify CSS style sheets with unprecedented speed and accuracy Use Dynamic Web Templates to consistently format (or reformat) hundreds of pages Implement state-of-the-art interactivity with buttons, behaviors, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Publish simple Silverlight applications and add multimedia content from Flash and other sources Build advanced drop-down and other CSS-based menus from scratch Learn how and when to use each of Expression Web’s six publishing options Integrate web application code written in ASP.NET or PHP

Expression Web is Microsoft's newest tool for creating and maintaining dynamic Web sites. This FrontPage replacement offers all the simple "what-you-see-is-what-you-get" tools for creating a Web site along with some pumped up new features for working with Cascading Style Sheets and other design options. Microsoft Expression Web For Dummies arrives in time for early adopters to get a feel for how to build an attractive Web site. Author Linda Hefferman teams up with longtime FrontPage For Dummies author Asha Dornfest to show the easy way for first-time Web designers, FrontPage vets, or users of other Web design tools how to get results from Expression Web.

The one-stop shop for serious Expression Web users, this book offers a thorough understanding of the software in a mixed reference-tutorial fashion.

Microsoft Expression Web gives you the tools to develop sophisticated sites that integrate standardized CSS layout with ASP.NET 2.0, XML, and SQL Server 2005. Written by an experienced ASP.NET and Dreamweaver Web developer, this book shows you how to take advantage of all of Expression Web’s innovative features to create a memorable online experience. Expert tips and techniques on Web page structuring, page formatting style sheets, HTML forms, and more will show you how to design and develop new Web applications.

You can easily create a professional-looking website with nothing more than an ordinary computer and some raw ambition. Want to build a blog, sell products, create forums, or promote an event? No problem! This friendly, jargon-free book gives you the techniques, tools, and advice you need to build a site and get it up on the Web. The important stuff you need to know: Master the basics. Learn HTML5, the language of the Web. Design good-looking pages. Use styles to build polished layouts. Get it online. Find a reliable web host and pick a good web address. Use time-saving tools. Learn free tools for creating web pages and tracking your visitors. Attract visitors. Make sure people can find your site through popular search engines like Google. Build a community. Encourage repeat visits with social media. Bring in the cash. Host Google ads, sell Amazon’s wares, or push your own products that people can buy via PayPal. Add pizzazz. Include audio, video, interactive menus, and a pinch of JavaScript.

A visual quick reference book that shows you how to work efficiently with Expression Web 2, with complete coverage of basic to advanced skills.

This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Through four complete sprints, this book takes you through every step needed to build brand new cross-platform web apps with ASP.NET Core, and make them available on the Internet. You won't just master Microsoft's revolutionary open source ASP.NET Core technology: you'll learn how to integrate the immense power of MVC, Docker, Azure Web Apps, Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Entity Framework. Working through the authors' carefully designed sprints, you'll start with a blank canvas, move through software architecture and design, adjusting to user feedback, recovering from mistakes, builds, testing, deployment, maintenance, refactoring, and more. Along the way, you'll learn techniques for delivering state-of-the-art software to users more rapidly and repeatably than ever before.

Special Edition Using Microsoft® Expression® Web 2 The only EXPRESSION WEB 2 book you need The successor to the best-selling book on the first release of Microsoft Expression Web, this book provides comprehensive coverage of Microsoft Expression Web 2. You’ll learn the basics of Web design and Expression Web 2 and gain valuable insight into Expression Web 2’s advanced features, such as ASP.NET and PHP development. If you’re interested in learning how to design standards-compliant Web sites using Expression Web 2, this is the only book you need. • Create standards-compliant Web sites with Expression Web 2 that work consistently in all browsers. • Become proficient in the use of CSS by learning how to use the powerful CSS tools in Expression Web 2. • Learn how to take advantage of ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX without writing any code. • Learn how to use the new PHP features available in Expression Web 2. • Add dynamic, interactive content with Behaviors and Layers. • Design your Web site for accessibility using both Section 508 and WCAG compliance. “Expression Web was built to help web authors create standards-based and standards-compliant web sites. Jim Cheshire has a broad understanding of those standards and a deep appreciation of Expression Web. Put the two together and you’ve got a guide that helps you understand and build sites that meet the challenges of modern Web design.” —Steven Guttman, Product Unit Manager, Expression Web Jim Cheshire is the owner of Jimco Software, a freeware software company and technology review site, and is the author of several books on Web development and ASP.NET. Jim has been heavily involved in Web development for more than a decade and has operated and designed many Web sites during that time. He’s been featured in numerous publications, including MSDN Magazine and PC Magazine. Jim previously worked on the FrontPage team at Microsoft and currently is an escalation engineer on the ASP.NET and IIS teams. Category: Web Development Covers Microsoft Expression Web 2 User Level Beginning—Advanced On the CD-ROM • Sample files from the author • FREE! full version of Logo Creator (retail value of $39.95) • FREE! full version of DHTML Menu Builder Lite (retail value of $25) • Electronic version of this book in Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) Cover image: Digital Vision Photography/Veer Inc.