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Microsoft Expression Web Step by Step (Microsoft)

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This book helps the novice webmaster start with Expression Web or convert their website over from FrontPage. If you buy Expression Web, this is a must have book for all. It is simple to follow and contains tutorials for all (from HTML to .NET). Learn how to move "upgrade" your FrontPage website, even if you don't understand HTML code.

This book is a must for users needing to start to use Expression Web, whatever the reason.

After I brought the Microsoft Expression Web program, the first books that I brought dealt with coding, i.e. "HTML & XHTML with CSS" by Elisabeth Freeman & Erick Freeman, HTLML, XHTML & CSS Visual Quickstart Guide by Elizabeth Castro, "CSS: The Definitive Guide" by Eric Meyer. After that, I wanted to more specifically learn how to use the Expression Web program, so I purchased Nolan Hester's "Microsoft Expression Web Visual Quickstart Guide," and "Using Microsoft Expression Web" by Jim Cheshire, and this book, "Microsoft Expression Web Step-by-Step."

Although, no book is perfect, Chapter 1 in "Microsoft Expression Web Step-by-Step" was a big disappointment. Many of the directions are incomplete, and the illustrations in the book don't coincide with what is shown in the lesson files. This is confusing, frustrating, and time- consuming.

This Step-by-step book is not step-by-step. There are no clearly defined terms, no attendant images, way too many assumptions and the author in general couldn't teach a sack to hold air. If you want to waste your money, buy this book. Otherwise, look elsewhere. It got one star just because I couldn't post this with no star.

Basically this is a book which would like to help previous MS Frontpage user sto migrate to Expression web. This book would guide you through some basics of the software. However some of the illustrations are not clear enough. Not exactly a "Step by Step" book.

This is the 3rd Step-By-Step book I've purchased. The book has several mistakes where it instructs you to do something that doesn't work, i.e., 'click' when it should have said 'double-click'. Descriptions on where to position the cursor to perform certain tasks in a lesson are often vague causing confusion and wasted time. It's almost as if the book had not been edited or had someone walk through the lessons. My experience with other Microsoft SBS books have been very good; so, this is very disappointing.

Microsoft Expression Web Step by Step (Microsoft)

I just received this book. I started doing the exercises immediately and so far im very pleased with what it has to offer.

While Front Page has been a favored WYSIWG for many years, it was highly criticized by many for its "unique" code and lack of strong CSS support. Now with Expression Web, users can start gaining a better understanding of actual code and really harness the power of CSS.

This book takes a very hands-on approach to take the user step-by-step (just as the title promises) through the use of this popular program. It's self-paced layout and accompanying CD is well thought out and easy to understand. Great for novices but a good resource for anyone who wants to learn more about Expression Web.

First off, I'm a novice at web design.. though I have built a few sites with Frontpage in the past. Given it's name, "Step By Step" I was expecting a book that would guide me through Expression Web simply and logicaly. While there is a lot good information in this book, it's not presented in an orderly and logical fashion. It's difficult to use, the instructions are sometimes incomplete, and the author assumes a fair amount of experience on the part of the reader.

I bought this book because of the title and table of contents. At 93 pages into it I had a horrible headache. This is definitely not a book for beginners and assumes the user has web design knowledge. The huge downloads for the exercises were awful and to me provided nothing to learning. It was difficult even to get those in the right place to open. Some never did. Some of the instructions are simply wrong for ME4 and as beginners, we don't need to be changing the settings of anything because we don't know what we're doing, especially in the early section dealing with PHP. The author just throws in abbreviations with no explanations. Found another source that from page one had me opening up a site and changing background color, doing my first CSS with full beginner instructions that make sense.

The book was priced extremely low, but there was no indication that the CD was missing. Without the practice and learning files contained on the CD, the book is essentially worthless.