We offer a variety of tutorials in either text or video format. In some cases there maybe an ipod version available of the videos, see the bottom section of this page for a list..

Sample Sites & DWTs

New Series

Creating a basic website in Expression Web froms start to finish. If you wish to follow along download the Urban Houston zip file which contains all the assets used and the finished site.

1. Introduction
2. Setting up a local website
3. Creating page level default styles
4. Adding a page title in the masthead
5. Tweaking the masthead
6. Creating a horizontal menu from an unordered list
7. Tweaking Styles
8. Importing content from Word
9. Adding Images to your web pages
10. General editing and style tips
11. Constrain the width of the webpage
12. Importing a list from Word for a submenu
13. Workspace
14. Submenu Part 2
15. Address Element
16. Adding a Footer
17. Basic - Creating a DWT & moving styles to an external stylesheet

Text based Tutorials

• UTF-8 Characterset - Do you have strange characters showing on your web page when viewed in a browser? Odds are you have a BOM issue, here areways to fix it.
• New From Template - Create a new site from one of the Expression Web templates.
• Customizing Your Work Space - Arrange the Taste Panes in Expression Web to suit the way you work.
• CS - Code Snippets Last Updated - Add a list updated date to your web page (note javascript update so this code snippet only works on states sites.)
• CS - Design Time Includes - Restoring design time includes in Expression Web version 1.
• QB - Reformat Code - Reformat your HTML to make of it easier for you to read and maintain.
• QB - strong and em - Applying mark-up to selected text
• QB - Tool Tips - Using the title attribute for a tool tip.
• QB - Migrating to Expression - this is the short version, a longer more detailed tutorial is a work in progress.
• QB - Forum Rank and Poll - How to rate posts in our forum.
• QB - Test Your Server - Find out what server side technology your server supports?
• QB - Configuring Editors - Adding external editors to ExpressionWeb's context menu.
• QB - DWT & Meta Data - Troubleshooting DWTs not updating properly.

Video Tutorials

• Font Family Groups (Windows Media) - Create a new font family group in Expression Web.
• Font Family (flash) - Same as above but Flash format.
• Create a New Style (flash) - Create a new style using the dialog box method.
• Customizing Your Work Space (flash) - Arrange the Taste Panes in Expression Web to suit the way you work.
• Strong & Em - Applying mark-up to selected text.

Ipod Versions

• Strong & Em - Applying mark-up to selected text.
• Building a basic set from start to finish, there are 17 individual videos in the series.