Anna Ullrich

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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

Filed under: Expression Web, tutorials, Expression Web 2

The vexing hunt for HEX values

I’ve watched a lot of web developers jumping between their HTML code editor and their page comp in Photoshop to look up the hexadecimal value of colors in the page comp. Should be a simple process but the steps they take are often painful to watch. So Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2009 11:49 PM by Anna | 1 Comments

Filed under: tutorials, HTML, Photoshop

Separating the wheat from the chaff: Script & Style helps you find the best web development articles

The Community Server control panel for my blog purports to show me what site a person was on when they clicked a link and came to my blog. Looking at the panel tonight, I noticed many hits coming to my post “ Test your websites in different versions of Read More...

Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2009 11:18 PM by Anna | 0 Comments

Filed under: tutorials, design, development

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

Filed under: Expression Web, tutorials, Expression Web 2, PHP, ASP.NET

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

Filed under: Expression Web, CSS, tutorials, Expression Web 2

Webmonkey.com reborn with version 2.0 BETA

When I first started building websites, I visited webmonkey.com often for its tutorials and to look up stuff but the website appeared to die out several years ago. Apparently the folks at Wired have resurrected the website this past week as Webmonkey Read More...

Posted Sunday, June 01, 2008 7:09 PM by Anna | 0 Comments

Filed under: tutorials

In 3 and a half minutes, all you need to know about web design and web standards

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

Filed under: Expression Web, tutorials

plates overflowing with CSS

I think I'm the only person at Microsoft who brings her own plate to the cafeterias on campus here in Redmond. I've gotten a lot of positive encouragement from other people who notice me and my plate, but I've yet to see anyone else doing this in my two Read More...

Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:11 PM by Anna | 1 Comments

Filed under: CSS, tutorials, Expression Web 2, BETA

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

Filed under: Expression Web, tutorials

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

Filed under: Expression Web, CSS, tutorials

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