Special Edition Using Microsoft Expression Web

by Cheshire, Jim

• ISBN13: 9780789736055
• ISBN10: 0789736055
• Format: Paperback w/CD
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Que

Summary

The ultimate guide on creating and managing Web sites using the new Microsoft Office Expressions Web Designer 2007.

Table of Contents

Introduction xxix
An Overview
A Tour of Expression Web 3
Web Sites in Expression Web
Creating a Web Site	p. 25
Importing a Web Site	p. 41
Web Site Management and Reporting	p. 67
Publishing a Web Site	p. 83
Using Personal Web Packages	p. 93
Creating and Editing Web Content
Creating Pages and Content	p. 103
Using Web Page Views	p. 127
Using Tables and Layout Tables	p. 149
Using Frames	p. 179
Using Forms Controls	p. 195
Editing Tag Properties	p. 215
Using the Quick Tag Tools	p. 227
Using Graphics and Multimedia	p. 241
Configuring Page Editor Options 257 16 Using Find and Replace	p. 271
Using CSS in Expression Web
Creating Style Sheets	p. 289
Managing CSS Styles	p. 311
Optimizing Your Web Site
Accessibility Features in Expression Web	p. 339
Designing for Compatibility	p. 349
Scripting, DHTML, and Other Dynamic Content
Using Dynamic Web Templates	p. 363
Using Interactive Buttons	p. 381
Using Behaviors	p. 393
Using Client Scripting	p. 415
Using Layers	p. 439
Creating VBA Macros	p. 455
ASP.NET Development in Expression Web
Using the ASP.NET Development Server	p. 485
Using Standard ASP.NET Controls	p. 495
Using ASP.NET Navigation Controls	p. 527
Using ASP.NET Master Pages	p. 549
Developing a Login System Using ASP.NET	p. 569
Implementing Form Validation Using ASP.NET	p. 595
Using ASP.NET Web Parts	p. 607
Accessing Data in Expression Web
Primer on Data Access Technologies	p. 629
Accessing Data with ASP.NET 2.0	p. 635
Appendices A Using Expression Web with Visual Web Developer Express Edition	p. 655
Taking Advantage of E-Commerce	p. 677
The Future of Web Development	p. 685
Resources on Expression Web, Web Design, and ASP.NET	p. 695
Index	p. 699
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Excerpts

Introduction Who Should Read This Book? Expression Web is an exciting new Web development product and there are going to be plenty of authors writing about it. That puts readers in a tight spot when trying to figure out which book to purchase to learn how to use Expression Web to its fullest. Let me tell you who should be reading this book. If you find that you fall into the category, then this is the book for you. I'm a tech addict. As such, I have read plenty of technical books, and I find many of them to be frustratingly light on any meaningful content. In fact, most of them are just complex rewrites of the documentation that ships with the product. I get the documentation with the product, and I'd rather not pay for it again from a third party. Instead, I want a book that tells me what the documentationdoesn'ttell me. That's exactly what this book will do. It will show you how to use the features in Expression Web forreal-worldWeb design. I'll give you pointers on how to effectively use several features together to achieve a common goal. I'll give you a strong foundation in the technologies involved (for example, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Extensible Hyper-Text Markup Language (XHTML), ASP.NET, and more) so you aren't working in a vacuum. The goal of this book is to equip you to be a better Web designer using Expression Web as one of the tools in your arsenal. If that sounds like something you're interested in, keep reading! Rest in Peace, FrontPage Let me start by saying that Expression Web should not be considered the next version of FrontPage, but neither is it a new application built from the ground up. Instead, it's a mixture of some of the best elements from FrontPage and entirely new features that address just about every complaint FrontPage users have voiced over the years. Many Web designers have remained loyal to FrontPage over the years despite its shortcomings. There are forums and Web sites dedicated to teaching Web designers how to work around the issues encountered by FrontPage users. Note -I'm well aware of the problems FrontPage users encountered. I started Jimco Software in 1998 so I could distribute add-ins to work around some of the shortcomings in FrontPage. When Microsoft designed Expression Web, one of the primary goals was to deliver a Web design tool that allows Web developers to create standards-compliant Web sites. If you followed the marketing hype that Microsoft issued prior to Expression Web's release, you no doubt heard plenty of talk about this. I'm happy to say that Expression Web lives up to the hype and makes FrontPage completely obsolete. As you'll see throughout this book, Expression Web marks a significant improvement in Web design tools. It stands poised to draw in users from all the other professional-level tools while still maintaining the ease of use for which FrontPage is so well-known. The Need for Expression Web As soon as Microsoft opened a public forum for the discussion of Expression Web, people started asking why Microsoft needed a new Web development tool. After all, FrontPage (the legacy Web design tool from Microsoft) had spent the better part of a decade building up a committed user base. Why did we need a new product? Ask any professional developer who's ever used FrontPage, and he or she will tell you exactly why. Microsoft desperately needed a Web design tool that would adhere to current Web standards, and they needed a Web design tool that would make creating and maintaining a standards-driven Web site easy. Not only that, but they needed a Web design tool created from the ground up to support ASP.NET 2.0 from a designer's perspective. Expression Web meet