When creating my Windows Store application Gamer Dice , I wanted to provide a compelling visual representation of the dice the player was using that scaled well when the dice were shown at different sizes, in different colors (tints) and could show the...

This is a brief exploration of some of the capabilities of the F# language to define a small set of classes that can be leveraged to provide a simple text-based UI for an F# program. Example code is provided, which is a great introduction to the syntax...

In this post I will walk through the steps necessary to create basic animation using the HTML canvas element, some of the capabilities of the canvas context and how to configure Expression Web 4 to preview with the IE9 Platform Preview. The HTML canvas...

Design and Typography go hand in hand. But every time I’ve looked at using specific fonts with my web pages, it seemed confusing and difficult to get working. So many web page designers simply give up and wind up using text in the background images...

I have always been crazy about typefaces and it's one of the things that attracts me to page design and graphic illustration. Fonts come in so many variaties and variations, it's hard to remember which is which. Historically publishers of fonts and typefaces...

As a member of the Microsoft Expression Web team, I am proud to be a part of our newest release: Microsoft Expression Web 3. Not only am I pleased and very grateful to have had an opportunity to contribute to the release of this application, I am also...

I used Expression Design to layout and create the elements for my wedding homepage and then used Expression Web to position them on the page. After that I used Expression Web to give the page image swapping behaviors when the user moved the mouse over...

I used Expression Design to layout and create the elements for my wedding homepage (see my blog Composing a Wedding Page in Expression Design ) and then used Expression Web to position them on the page. In this post I will describe how to use Expression...

I used Expression Design to layout and create the elements for my wedding homepage (see my blog Composing a Wedding Page in Expression Design .) In this post I will describe how to use Expression Web to layout those elements on the page based on the composition...

In August of 2008 I was lucky enough to marry the woman of my dreams with a small wedding ceremony in Las Vegas. I really enjoy web design and while I am not a professional web designer, I get to play one at my new job as a software tester on the Expression...

A few months before I came to work for Microsoft, I was trying to revise my personal website . It was very plain and I wanted to jazz it up a bit. I was trying to use Visual Studio 2005 ... to no avail. It just wasn't the right tool for the job. So...