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Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression® Web 3 in 24 Hours
Publisher: Sams
Pub. Date: September 18, 2009
Print ISBN-10: 0-672-33064-4
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-672-33064-3
Web ISBN-10: 0-7686-9566-X
Web ISBN-13: 978-0-7686-9566-3
Pages in Print Edition: 528
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Overview
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
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"A Sweet Intro to a Sweet Tool" - by Lisa Morgan on 24-APR-2010
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I am an experienced .Net developer whose front-end presentation skills are less than stellar. I purchased Expression Studio because my current project needs a sharp, modern front-end to go with all my sharp, modern C# code. I've used Dreamweaver, but it doesn't integrate well with the C# web application that underpins this site. Enter Expression Web, about which I know what cats know about calculus. Or rather, that's what I did know. After working through this book, I am in love with the tool and confident of my ability to create a great presentation layer to go with my funcionality.
In my career I have started learning nearly every new tool with a Sams "24-hour" book. It's a technique that doesn't fail, and this book is no exception. I am on hour 11 after only 6 hours of work because I knew some of this already, but even if it took the whole 24 hours it would still be a lightning-fast ramp-up.
The book's writing is clear, entertaining, and the examples are effective and well-presented for a beginner without making you feel as if "beginner"="stupid. An excellent offering in an excellent series. I will certainly look for other books by this author as well.
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