Tutorials, Blogs and Websites
Now that people have been able to play with Expression web other sites have been appearing along with blogs containing tutorials and examples of what you can do with Expression Web. Below are just the forums and websites we currents know about.
If you know of an Expression related site or other resource that should be added to this list let us know.
Other Sites with Tutorials and Articles
- Microsoft's Official Expression Web Site
- Any Expression - Is the website Tina Clarke, a fellow MVP, on Expression Web that has a tutorials and resource sections on a variety of Expression related topics.
- learnexpression.com - Dustin has some of the best video tutorials on Expression Web I've seen. I hate to admit it but they are better than mine.
- EW Resource - Is the website of Ian Hanes, a fellow Microsoft MVP, the focus here is on using asp.net and Expression Web.
- Jimco Books - Jimco's book are excellent how to and missing manual type books. His Expression books (Using Microsoft Expression and his upcoming ASP.NET book) are not exception. Jimco is a good place to look for server side assistance.
- Genealogy Web Creations - Pat has a mixture of Expression and FrontPage tutorials on her site. While the site focus on genealogy websites the information contained applies to websites of all types.
- Expression Tutorials- http://expression-tutorials.com
- Spider Web Woman Designs - Kathleen has added database tutorials to Expression Web to compliment her FrontPage tutorials.
Blogs
Paid Training Site
While the third has add-ons to make the most of your Expression Web experience.
Note: the title of each entry is a link to the site.
Utilities
- FP Cleaner - free
- Don't let the name fool you, this tools works with Expression Web, FrontPage 2003 and SharePoint Designer to empty corrupt cache files and fix the problems created by temp files that remained behind.
Add-ons
- Instant-fx.net - some free & others commercial addons
- This well respected maker of FrontPage Add-ons was one of the first to offer Expression Web support to his programs
- Navigation Maker
- MP3 Player Maker
- SlideShow Maker
- Flash Browser
- Flash Browser/Transformer
- Flash Puzzle Maker
- ToolTip Maker
- Webs Unlimited
- From the maker of J-Bots and other add-ins for FrontPage comes Pane Manager to collapse and expand the Task Panes (paid) à la Visual Studion and Dreamweaver, and Includes (free) which restores the ability to use design time includes without the need to use a code snippet.
- Webassist - PayPal
- Webassist has been making ecommerce extensions and add-ons for many web editors. This PayPal is their first Expression Web add-on but I expect there will be a PayPal cart available from Webassist sooner or later.
- expressionextras.com (was d2stuff)
- Google sitemap builder, other search engine tools, and other utilities, new version as of June 17th.
- FP Bot Macro
- Did you migrate from FrontPage and miss the Datebase words? Want design time includes back on your menu instead of a code snippet? This free add-on is for you
- For Expression
- Not many add-ons here yet but several have been announced Jo check and see what they have available. In the meantime there are simple forms write processors that are available.
- CTRFX.com
- This site has a Contact Form generator complete with the server side ASP.NET 2.0 code that should work on most web hosts. You may need to change the server, userid and password used to connect to your host but otherwise the code is good to go as generated. Form validation is included in the generated contact from. There is also turorials on how to customize the look and feel of your generated form. This is an addon that will be appreciated by many.
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