Want to know what your visitors really think? What do they want to learn more about? Ask them. Online surveys are a great to way to gauge the experience of your audience and to invite reviews. You can also use online surveys as planning tools to poll your audience about how and where they might […]
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Have you ever wondered how some sites add those little custom graphics to the very top of the browser in the address bar next to the URL? Google adds a capital G, Adobe adds their A logo, we include the swoosh from our logo, and you can add any image to your site, too. Creating […]
Read More browsers, dwcs3, dwcs4, dwcs5, dwcs6, expression-web, web design, wordpressTest Your CSS Before You Publish with Expression Web
Cascading Style Sheets are great for creating designs on the Web, but with these powerful design options come many chances to make mistakes… How to run a CSS Report in Expression Web: 1. Choose Tools > CSS Reports. 2. Under the Errors tab in the CSS Reports dialog, specify whether you want to check […]
Read More expression-webHow to Test Web Site Accessibility with Microsoft Expression Web
Creating Accessible Web site designs means creating pages that can be viewed by anyone on the web, including those with disabilities who use special browsers to “read” pages to them. Designing accessible Web sites has the added advantage that it can boost your search engine rankings. Turns out the same rules for accessibility are good […]
Read More expression-webMake Global Updates with Dynamic Web Templates in Expression Web
When you create a web site with Dynamic Web Templates you can simplify your design work, create new pages faster, and make global updates. The three pages in the site shown in this example were all created from a Dynamic Web Template. Some of the areas of the template are editable, for example, I can […]
Read More expression-webCreate a Rollover with the Swap Image Behavior
You can use the Swap Image behavior to create rollover images for links and navigation elements, and you can use it to add a little surprise to your pages anywhere in your web site by setting one image to swap with another image. Follow these instructions to create an image rollover effect in Expression Web: […]
Read More expression-webAdd Meta Keywords and Descriptions for Search Engine Optimization
You’ll never see the contents of Meta tags displayed in a Web page, which can make them easy to forget, but taking a few minutes to fill in Meta descriptions and keywords can help improve your ranking in search engines. Although many search engines ignore Meta keywords because of abuses by Web designers trying to […]
Read More expression-webCreate a Centered Layout using Div Tags and CSS Layout in Expression Web
CSS is the best way to create page designs these days, but if you want your designs centered when displayed in a browser, you’ll need to know this little trick. 1. First, you have to specify a width of the div tag you want to center, and it has to be smaller than the display […]
Read More expression-webCreate External Style Sheets to Save Time with CSS Designs in Expression Web
You can create styles for each page in your site, or you can create external style sheets and use the same styles across many pages at once. To create an external style sheet in Microsoft Expression Web, follow these instructions: 1. Choose File > New> CSS 2. Save the file, and name it something like […]
Read More expression-webChange Link Colors and Remove the Underline with CSS in Expression Web
If you don’t like the way text looks when it’s turned into a link, you can change the formatting, altering the colors, font, and even removing the underline. Just follow these instructions to create a CSS style in Expression Web that will change the appearance of your links: 1. To change link colors, choose Show […]
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