I will be at TechEd again this year. Like last year I will he working in -the MVP booth. For a change I am going to actually try and use some of the sorrel networking tools so here is my TechEd connect card.
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While I have had bits and pieces of the Expression Web Basic tutorial series up on the site (under Media) they are now officially linked on the by-expression.com site's tutorial page. It took me some time to figure out the best compression ratio to file size and the right number of key frames to make sure you can see the parts that I am working on without too much jumping around.
If you prefer there is also an iPod version you can download of each of the tutorials. Whichever you chose if you plan on working along with the tutorial you should download the zip file that contains all the assets used in the site and the completed project.
Like the sample sites and page layouts we provide on by-expression you may use the basic layouts and DWTs but I would request that you switch out the images for your own graphics since they probably won't fit your site anyway. ;-)
If you do use one of our sample templates I'd like to see what you did with it so drop us a note.
Okay I normally limit my posting to Expression Web, general web design-development or Dreamweaver but thought I'd mention some graphic topics for a change.
First, the Expression Design team has started putty tutorials -video blogs in then blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/xdesignsupport/default.aspx
Next, I see people asking how attach text to a path. Since Fireworks is the image program I use most I found this tutorial worthwhile http://www.tommylogic.com/tutorial-blog/web-design-tutorials/39-web-related/66-fireworks-text-shape-tutorial
Finally, something I find myself needing to to is remove backgrounds from images. This is the best tutorial I know of for using Fireworks to remove the background http://www.tommylogic.com/tutorial-blog/web-design-tutorials/39-web-related/66-fireworks-text-shape-tutorial
Now that we have moved all the content from by-expression.com into the new community server 2008 based site I will be moving my blog in there as well. Sadly since there is not a good migration tool right now I will not be moving the archive over yet but all new posts will be at [...]
What is it moving the Webmaster Jam Session conference to Atlanta?
Ever since the first Webmaster Jam in Dallas two years ago this has been one of my favorite conferences. Top notch speakers, a reasonable price, altogether a great conference. The only downside was the conference hotel which sucked. The conference facilities were good but the hotel itself was NOT. At the end of the conference last year there was some discussion of moving the conference to Houston or at least to a different hotel so I was anticipating (happily) a change of venue.
To my surprise when I received word today that registration was opening for WebMaster Jam 2008 the conference was moved to ATLANTA. Crap, I really liked having a good small conference that was in Texas.
In addition, last year there was a "Platinum Pass" available with extra small session content. Every platinum pass holder I talked to last year would get a platinum pass again. Not only does that option not appear to be available this year the website itself is sketchy on details. Compare the information available about the 2008 conference http://2008.webjamsession.com/ with the 2007 conference http://2007.webjamsession.com. Heck, there isn't even hotel information on the website.
Over the last few years I have attended quite a few conferences ranging from small intimate ones like Webmaster Jam Session and Remix Boston, the way up to the huge conferences like MIX, SXSW and TechEd (I am hoping to make it to AdobeMAX this year) and Webmaster Jam Session has been up at the top of my list of "best" conference to attend.
Sadly, I am not sure that I will be able to make it this year with the move to Atlanta and the lack of information on the site.
Microsoft announced today that version 2 of Expression Web was released today. See http://www.microsoft.com/expression/ for more information.
Looks like you won't be able to buy it until June 1st but you can download the 30 day trial now. From what I've seen there aren't any major differences between the beta that has been available for awhile and the release version but I haven't had a chance to test for fixes to bugs that I saw during the beta.
According to MacWorld at http://www.macworld.com/article/133181/2008/04/golivedead.html GoLive is officially a dead program.
While Adobe is discontinuing development and sales of GoLive, the company will continue to support GoLive users with online tutorials and migration assistance created by usage experts. The company has also collaborated with online training service Lynda.com to provide tutorials for GoLive users. Adobe [...]
I haven't tried using the Community Server blog feature since I was very happy with the WordPress install on our old site. However, since we are doing a major transition with our site I thought I'd try it out. Until I decide what to do with my blog it I will be primarily updating this blog with an archive of my old blog posts at http://blog.by-expression.net. Hopefully, the tool that will let me migrate all my old posts over here will become available and that url will be nothing but an archive site.
The forums have been successfully migrated to the new community server platform. We are in the process of migrating the rest of the site contents over.
Since there is not a converter to migrate this blog over right now I have decided to keep it in WordPress (updated to the latest version) for the time [...]
We are migrating our forums from Community Server 2.1 to 2008 over the next few days. During the migration our forums will be closed but we hope to have the new and improved version up again within a few days.
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For the last 4-5 days I have been in Seattle surrounded by almost 1,800 MVPs from around the world. Not only was I able to meet Expression MVPs from the US, Germany and India but spend hours with the members of Microsoft development teams for Expression Studio programs and the IE 8 team to see [...]
Title of the session is Comp CSS, Code.
It started with a video then went into who is the target audience. The “person” profit is “Anna” a 28 year old, standards compliant html & CSS in a “loft” agency in Seattle using PHP for dynamic intent and JavaScript. AJAX. Reads a variety of web design and [...]
Is Now Available!
To download and install the Expression Web 2 Beta, go to: http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/download.aspx?key=web2beta
So what is new?
PHP, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX Stacked with new features, Expression Web 2 provides
For PHP :
PHP syntax highlighting and IntelliSense.
Expression Web 2 lets you preview PHP pages locally using the same development server [...]
I had to leave the keynote to deal with a few phone calls but when I went bade into the room of was all Silverlight 2 and Some very kewl mobile apps since not only will Windows Mobile 6 support Silverlight but Nokia has partnered with Microsoft to bring Silverlight to Nokia and other symbols [...]
For me the highlight of the first day keynote so far has the astral working preview of IE 8. The developers toolbar is becoming much more useful.
Open specification format has been released for web slices under Microsoft’s open source licensing to make it easier for connecting web apps to websites using slices. Demoed options include [...]
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