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• How to get 60 days out of your free 30 day Expression web 2 trial

  The free trial version of Expression Web 2 is described as a "30 day" free trial on the FAQ for Expression Web 2 and in one of the screens that appears during installation of the program. In theory, after 30 days have passed the program should not start unless you enter a product key that you've purchased. In reality, the trial period ends and the trial program stops running at the end of the month that follows the month you installed the program. This means that if you download and install Expression Web 2 on July 1, 2008, the program won't expire until August 31, 2008, or 62 days later. If you install the program on July 31st, the program will also expire August 31...giving you only 32 days with the program. So if you want to get the most out of your free trial period, download the program at the start of the month! After the trial version of Expression Web 2 expires, don’t forget that you can get the upgrade version for only $99 if you own any one of the following: Licensed copy of an earlier version of Expression Web Microsoft Office - any version Microsoft FrontPage® - any version Quark QuarkXPress - any version Adobe Creative Suite - any version Adobe/Macromedia Flash or Director - any version Adobe/Macromedia Dreamweaver - any version Adobe GoLive - any version Anna Posted Jul 01 2008, 02:26 PM by Expression Web team blog Filed under: Expression Web, version 2

• What do YOU want? How about some sweet swag... ?

  Hello faithful readers! What would you like to read more about on the Expression Web team blog? Tutorials? Team profiles? Weather predictions? If you want more tutorial 'how to' content, what would you like to know more about? Let us know what you want to read more about by leaving a comment on this blog post or by sending us an email. If we blog about something that you requested here, we'll send you some priceless swag...could be Expression Web-branded, Silverlight-branded, Zune-branded, or some other brand from Microsoft. (Just be sure to enter your email address when you post your comment or email so we can follow up with you!) Anna Posted Jun 11 2008, 06:30 PM by Expression Web team blog Filed under: Expression Web, feature-suggestions, tutorials

• Version 2 of Expression Web has arrived !

  The Expression website was relaunched yesterday with a fresh new look and experience to coincide with the release of Expression Studio 2 . Now you can get your hands on free trial versions of each program in Expression Studio 2 including Expression Web 2 or buy the program. So what's new in Expression Web 2? Efficiently edit your PHP pages with the robust set of PHP editing features, including PHP Include rendering in the design surface Preview your PHP and ASP.NET pages in your browser with a single click of a button, using the built-in Expression Development Server Import Photoshop .PSD files Add Flash or Windows Media files to your pages, and enhanced ActiveX support Drag and drop ASP.NET AJAX controls into your pages Harness the power of ASP.NET 3.5 Work with custom ASP.NET controls, such as the controls in the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, simply by adding the controls to the BIN folder in your website Accurate design view rendering of the CSS Overflow property, and support for the IE 7 CSS Schema Enhanced FTP publishing Improved prebuilt CSS page layouts Byte order mark options Support for Silverlight 1 You can buy the upgrade for version 2 for only $99 if you own any of the following: Licensed copy of an earlier version of Expression Web Adobe Creative Suite - any version Adobe/Macromedia Flash or Director - any version Adobe/Macromedia Dreamweaver - any version Adobe GoLive - any version Microsoft Office - any version Microsoft FrontPage® - any version Quark QuarkXPress - any version Corel - any version Once you've installed Expression Web 2, discuss the program with others at the newish Expression Web forum ., check out learning options at the newish Expression Community website , or checkout the newsgroup for Expression Web. And submit feedback at the Connect website for Expression. Anna Posted May 02 2008, 10:59 AM by Expression Web team blog Filed under: Expression Web, version 2

• Free online Training from HP

  Hewlett Packard is providing a free online training for Expression Web 1 (not version 2 of Expression Web ) by Virginia O'Connor . Even though the course is for version 1 of Expression Web, I didn't see anything in the content that can't be applied to version 2 . The training consists of four lessons from May 8 - June 13th, 2008 and their website indicates the training materials will be taken down when the course ends so be sure to sign uo and get the content before June 13th, 2008. Here's the course description from the HP website: Building websites with Expression Web This class covers the basics for creating a website with Microsoft's Expression® Web with features such as toolbars, formatting, page layouts and link creation. With this easy website creation software, you'll apply cascading style sheets, then learn how to create complex queries, how to configure the software for different browsers and how to create interactive web pages with ASP.NET 2.0 capabilities. http://h30187.www3.hp.com/sessions/overview/p/courseSessionId/16257 Anna Posted May 02 2008, 10:45 AM by Expression Web team blog Filed under: Expression Web, ASP.NET, tutorials, CSS

• Expression newsletter overflows with Expression Web

  The April 2008 edition of the Expression newsletter was published today and contains no less than four articles directly related to Expression Web, including an interview with Eric Meyer who talks about CSS: https://www.microsoft.com/expression/news-press/newsletter/2008-04/Default.aspx The newsletter also contains articles on Deep Zoom and Silverlight 2. To subscribe to the newsletter and receive it in email (approximately every 2 months), click here . Anna Posted Apr 28 2008, 11:12 AM by Expression Web team blog Filed under: Expression Web, tutorials

• Still on the fence? pricing and upgrade details for Expression Web 2

  For those of you that have been enjoying the trial version of Expression Web 1, but have been sitting on the fence about purchasing it ever since you saw the BETA of Expression Web 2 come out...well now you can safely commit to the purchase because version 2 will be provided to you for FREE if you buy Expression Web 1 sometime between February 24th and June 1st of 2008. The Expression website now provides all of the pricing details for Expression Web 2, Expression Studio 2, and all Expression programs. The details: " If you purchase any Expression product between February 24th 2008 and June 1st 2008 you qualify for a free upgrade to version 2 of the same product (Web 2 for Web, Studio 2 for Studio, etc.). Details on how to get the upgrade will be published on the Expression website on May 1. Product registration and proof of purchase will be required. " And just like before, you can get Expression Web for only $99 if you own any of the following: Microsoft Office (any version) Microsoft FrontPage (any version) Adobe/Macromedia Creative Suite (any version) Adobe/Macromedia Dreamweaver (any version) Adobe/Macromedia Flash or Director (any version) Adobe GoLive (any version) And note that if you own the Academic version of a program, you will qualify for the upgrade price for the nonacademic version. And here's another bonus tip that you will NOT find on the Expression website (at least not at the moment)...you can buy the upgrade version of Expression Media for only $99 if you own Expression Web. Why do you want to own Expression Media? For one thing, you can generate photo galleries for the web with the click of a button and create your own custom photo gallery templates with HTML and CSS. Expression Media also comes with Expression Encoder , which lets you create slide shows and deliver video for the web, and so much more. If all that is of interest to you, perhaps you should invest in the entire Expression Studio while you're at it! Anna Posted Apr 18 2008, 06:22 PM by Expression Web team blog Filed under: Expression Web

• Transitioning from FrontPage to Expression Web

  If you've been using FrontPage and are ready to embrace the world of standards-based web design with Expression Web, or if you're still unsure and need more convincing, PixelMill has created a helpful series of in-depth articles to help guide you on your way: http://www.pixelmill.com/support/al1095.htm Anna Posted Apr 02 2008, 12:52 AM by Expression Web team blog Filed under: Expression Web, FrontPage, tutorials

• CSS Sculptor by Eric Meyer for Expression Web 2 or 1

  We're excited to announce that Eric Meyer ( http://meyerweb.com/ and http://www.complexspiral.com/ ), internationally recognized authority on HTML, CSS, and web standards, and author of some of the essential books on CSS (as if you didn't already know all that!), has released a pre-release version of his CSS Sculptor for Expression Web. The CSS Sculptor for Expression Web helps you create custom web standards compliant, CSS-based layouts. Finally, you can confidently and resolutely abandon your antiquated table-based layouts and start churning out CSS layouts like nobody's business! To work with the CSS Sculptor, download the CSS Sculptor installer, close Expression Web, and then run the CSS Sculptor installer. Once the installation is done, start Expression Web (either 2 or 1), and you will have two new items. On the Insert menu, you will have a new WebAssist submenu, like this: And on the File menu, you will have a new command named New CSS Sculptor Page, like this: Keep an eye on this blog for another post in which we walk you through using this cool new tool! After you try the tool out, give Eric your feedback directly by commenting on his own blog post about this tool: http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/03/06/expressive-sculptor/ And join in a discussion about the tool, or seek out help or advice, on the new Expression Web forum: http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/03/06/expressive-sculptor/ And as always, let us know what you think! Anna Posted Mar 10 2008, 02:21 PM by Expression Web team blog Filed under: Expression Web, add-ins, CSS

• From Comp, to CSS, to Code - view the talk online

  Tyler Simpson, our Principal Test Manager, and Nishant Kothary, Expression Technical Evangelist, presented a lively talk and demonstration of Expression Web 2 at MIX 2008 earlier this week. The recording of the session is already available online: http://sessions.visitmix.com/?selectedSearch=C04 Here's the description from the MIX website: Explore key features of Microsoft Expression Web through real-world scenario-based exercises focused around building a great blog template. The topics cover PHP support, Photoshop comp import workflow, CSS features, and more. Let us know what you think! Oh, and hey, have you had a chance to download the Expression Web 2 Beta yet? You haven't? Get on it then! PHP, AJAX, Custom ASP.NET controls, Photoshop support ...and more, await you here: http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/download.aspx?key=web2beta Posted Mar 08 2008, 12:18 AM by Expression Web team blog Filed under: Expression Web, tutorials, MIX, PHP

• Expression Web 2 BETA

  Building on the successful launch of Microsoft Expression Web and after listening closely to your feedback, we are excited to announce the release of Microsoft Expression Web 2 Beta. This Beta release expands your toolset beyond HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, by putting PHP, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX within your reach. Stacked with new features, Expression Web 2 provides essential tools to design standards-based websites. Web professionals can now author websites on the PHP platform more efficiently with features such as PHP syntax highlighting and statement completion (IntelliSense). Additionally for PHP, we provide an elegant solution that current Expression Web users rave about for previewing ASP.NET pages: Expression Web 2 lets you preview PHP pages locally without a separate development web server! Expression Web 2 supports interactive web content such as Silverlight and Flash, enabling you to easily include this content in your sites. Improved workflow enables you to import Adobe Photoshop designs into your sites with layer visibility control, and reimport changes with layer settings retained. New and enhanced productivity features boost your performance! Please install the Expression Web 2 Beta, and let us know what you think! Note: You can safely install the BETA of Expression Web 2 on a computer that also has Expression Web 1 on it. If you participated in a private preview program for Expression Web 2, you should uninstall the private preview version of Expression Web 2 before you install the BETA version. To download and install the Expression Web 2 Beta, click here . To submit suggestions and bugs, click here . To discuss the Beta with others, go to the NEW discussion forums here . To download other Expression BETA 2 programs, click here . Posted Mar 05 2008, 09:00 AM by Expression Web team blog Filed under: Expression Web

• NEW Expression discussion forums

  The Expression family of products has new and greatly improved discussion forums: http://forums.expression.microsoft.com The new forums have many new features including a tag cloud, user avatars, richer ux, and official forum moderators from each product team. The previous discussion forums ( http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.expression.webdesigner&cat=&lang=en&cr=US ) will remain open and available while its threads are ported over to the new forums. But please use the NEW forums instead. Join us! Posted Feb 20 2008, 06:12 PM by Blog by the Microsoft Expression Web team Filed under: Expression Web, feature-suggestions, submit-bugs

• Interactive buttons - a better way using CSS

  Anna Ullrich has launched her own blog, starting with a post on how to create a standards-based navigation menu using CSS in Expression Web. Check it out: http://blogs.msdn.com/anna/archive/2008/02/17/interactive-buttons-a-better-way-with-css.aspx Posted Feb 18 2008, 04:26 PM by Blog by the Microsoft Expression Web team Filed under: Expression Web, tutorials

• Service Pack 1 for Expression Web 1.0

  Microsoft Expression Web Service Pack 1 (SP1) delivers important customer-requested stability and performance improvements for Expression Web 1.0, while incorporating further enhancements to user security. You can download the SP1 for Expression Web and get more details about it on this page: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4C840D64-C95A-4328-9D80-47DC681741AD&displaylang=en Posted Dec 12 2007, 02:10 PM by Blog by the Microsoft Expression Web team Filed under: Expression Web

• Expression Web VPAT now available

  The Expression Web Voluntary Product Accessibility Template , or VPAT, is now available. The VPAT outlines how Expression Web meets key regulations of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. For more information on Microsoft’s commitment to accessibility and a list of available VPATs for Microsoft products , see Section 508 VPATs for Microsoft products . Posted Sep 07 2007, 12:54 PM by Blog by the Microsoft Expression Web team Filed under: Expression Web

• Submitting Feedback About Expression Web

  We have a new Connect website setup for you to submit suggestions and bug reports about Expression Web or any other Expression product, including Expression Blend, Expression Design, Expression Media, and Expression Media Encoder: https://connect.microsoft.com/Expression Up until now, the Expression Web team has used the Connect: Expression Web site to gather bug reports and suggestions from Expression Web users like you. The team behind Expression Web regularly reviewed these submissions – and you have sent us some excellent feedback, thank you! On Friday August 17th, 2007 we will take down the existing Expression Web program in Connect and transition over to the Connect website we have setup for all Expression Studio products. The Connect website for Expression Studio provides a feedback form that allows you to submit feedback for any program in the Expression Studio line of products, including Expression Web. The feedback you submit for Expression Web continues to go directly to the Expression Web development team, and you can still vote on, validate, and comment on the feedback of others. Although feedback you and others have submitted to the original Connect website for Expression Web is not available within the new Expression Studio Connect website, all previous feedback remain s active in our internal database which we use to track issues and feature requests. Thanks again for all of your feedback, please continue providing it, and we look forward to your participation in the new Connect: Expression Studio website! Posted Aug 09 2007, 11:12 AM by Blog by the Microsoft Expression Web team Filed under: Expression Web, feature-suggestions, submit-bugs