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Lorem Ipsum Code Snippet

I just made my first contribution to the newish Gallery section of the Expression Community website where anyone can add content and templates to share. Here’s a screenshot of the current categories: One of many cool things about the gallery is that you Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 07, 2009 2:51 PM by Anna | 1 Comments

Test your sites in different versions of Internet Explorer (Part 2) – Introducing SuperPreview (BETA)

My earlier post Test your websites in different versions of Internet Explorer has received a lot of hits since posted it and so I'm really pleased to submit this follow-up post on a new feature developed by my Expression Web team called SuperPreview that Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:40 PM by Anna | 1 Comments

Twitter on PHP versus ASP.NET

NETTUTS is a good website for web development and design tutorials: http://nettuts.com/ . Jeffrey Way , the person behind the NETTUTS website also maintains a NETTUTS profile on both Facebook and Twitter where his latest statuses caught my eye. Turns Read More...
Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 1:27 PM by Anna | 3 Comments

Better error messages “are recommended”

A code error tip in Expression Web: “The World-Wide-Web Consortium now regards the attribute ‘[ html attribute name ]’ as outdated. Newer constructs are recommended.” Newer constructs are recommended? Who talks like that?! With all due respect, some developers Read More...
Posted Friday, January 02, 2009 4:18 PM by Anna | 1 Comments

Who's editing your CSS?

The vast majority of front end web developers that I've met prefer to write their own markup in the code editor rather than let the program generate the markup for them. In fact, it's a point of pride to hand code because WYSIWYG programs have gotten Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 22, 2008 7:21 PM by Anna | 0 Comments

Am I hot or not?

You've visited the http://www.hotornot.com/ website. You've voted. You've compared your vote to the average of all other voters. (You've wondered if the rumors are true that the founders of hotornot sold it for 20 million.) Maybe you've also visited http://www.hotcaptcha.com/ Read More...
Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 8:47 PM by Anna | 3 Comments
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Flash Magazine review of Expression Web & Eric Meyer's CSS Sculptor

Good review of Expression Web and Eric Meyer's CSS Sculptor add-in for the program: http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/eric_meyers_css_sculptor_for_expression_web Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 12:05 AM by Anna | 1 Comments

Foxy searching

The first time I hit CTRL+F while using Firefox I thought I had either encountered a bug or the design of the program was flawed because nothing seemed to happen. Where was the Find dialog box that every other program on the planet (including Internet Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 25, 2008 6:22 PM by Anna | 0 Comments

Creating a "content" snippet

I was working on a demo to present to a few people earlier today, and wanted to insert some Latin filler text into the page that I was mocking up in Expression Web. So as I usually do, I pulled up http://www.lipsum.com/ in my browser, entered the number Read More...
Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 5:05 PM by Anna | 2 Comments

Community website for Expression

Check out the new Community website devoted to design, creative development, and Expression Studio: http://expression.microsoft.com/ You'll find all sorts of stuff there for inspiration, learning, and community, and I'll be there too: Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 7:06 PM by Anna | 1 Comments

NEW Expression community discussion forums

The Expression family of products has a new and greatly improved discussion forum: http://forums.expression.microsoft.com The new forums have many new features including a tag cloud, user avatars, richer ux, and official forum moderators from the product Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 5:58 PM by Anna | 1 Comments
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Center a page (horizontally) by using CSS

I often see posts in the Microsoft Expression Web discussion forum, asking how to make a web page appear centered in the web browser. One simple method is to surround the contents of your page with a div (if it isn't already), set the div's width, and Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 4:53 PM by Anna | 3 Comments

Interactive buttons - a better way using CSS

My inaugural blog post is a tutorial that I promised to create for an Expression Web user a long (too long!) while ago. I promised to show him how easy it is to use CSS instead of the Interactive Buttons feature he relies on in Expression Web. The Interactive Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 17, 2008 6:33 PM by Anna | 1 Comments
 
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