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Introducing Microsoft® Expression® Studio: Using Design, Web, Blend, and Media to Create Professional Digital Content
By: Greg Holden
Publisher: Course Technology PTR
Pub. Date: February 04, 2008
Print ISBN-10: 1-59863-156-X
Print ISBN-13: 978-1-59863-156-2
Web ISBN-10: 1-59863-157-8
Web ISBN-13: 978-1-59863-157-9
Pages in Print Edition: 524
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Overview
The World WideWeb is continually becoming more complex in sophistication. To get attention and be credible, your site has to have professional-quality graphics. It needs to be usable and give your visitors an interactive and compelling experience. For professional graphic designers and Web site architects, it's a golden age, because there's so much work to do and the standards are so high.Those who aren't artists, programmers, or designers are left wondering how to achieveall of those cool effects: how to make their Web sites user-friendly and eye-catching while maintaining Web standards. Microsoft's suite of graphics and design tools, collectively called Expression Studio, provides a terrific option for anyone who wants to create high-quality graphics,Web presentations, or user interfaces.This book serves as an introduction to using Expression Studio to create Web sites, graphics, and presentations, and to organize and edit media files. You'll learn how to use the Expression Studio programs individually, and you'll also learn how easy it is to export files and projects from one application to another. Each section of the book covers a specific program, so you can read the book from cover to cover to get a complete idea of how the entire suite works together, or just jump to specific topics of interest on the program you want to learn more about. By the end of the book, you'll be creating interactive sites that utilize Cascading Style Sheets and databases with Expression Web, creating and manipulating images with Expression Design, cataloging and keeping track of your content and creations with Expression Media, and putting it all together with Expression Blend.
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"Definately not worth the time or money" - by Storm on 02-JUL-2010
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All of us at our office is getting into Expression Studio for the first time. This ranges from ASP.Net developers, graphic designers, web designers etc, the whole shebang.
When looking for a book, I knew that a 500 odd page book wouldn't teach everything and I wasn't expecting it too either, I simply wanted a book that would teach everyone what everyone elses system was capable of and how to have a beginners understanding. From there, each department would get more specialised books/courses for each product they were working on.
From the start I didn't like this book, the first few chapters are so bloated with waffling which could easily have been summed up in 1 or 2 paragraphs and it doesn't stop there, the author just keeps waffling throughout the book. He covered all the obvious things that anybody would figure out in the first 30 seconds of opening one of the Expression Studio applications across multiple chapters and failed to cover even the most basic items in any sort of detail.
Not a single person read the book to it's end, everyone split off and rather ended up studying books dedicated to each product as there was no value in going further with this one.
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