Microsoft Expression Web 2 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide (Paperback)

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Product Description

Microsoft Expression Web offers a powerful array of visual tools for creating great looking sites while fully supporting Web-based standards. Expression Web makes it easy for designers to quickly design cool sites with tools that feel familiar. Thanks to Expression Web's underlying standards, the files can then be passed to developers who can code the site in the development tools they prefer. This back and forth without designers having to touch the code unless they want to makes this a powerful program. In Expression Web 2, Microsoft has added support for PHP backed sites and made it easy to work with PHP. Other new features include: Silverlight support and new editing capabilities for Flash SWF and Windows Media files. In addition Expression Web 2 now provides ASP.NET AJAX server controls that enable users to quickly create web pages that include a rich user experience with responsive and familiar user interface (UI) elements. 

About the Author

Nolan Hester has written more than a dozen books for Peachpit Press, including the best-selling Creating a Web Page with Dreamweaver: Visual QuickProject Guide and Retouching Photos in Photoshop Elements: Visual QuickProject Guide. He is also the author of two editions of Microsoft Office FrontPage for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide.

Product Details

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press; 2nd Revised edition edition (September 27, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321563794
• ISBN-13: 978-0321563798
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #664,116 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good content but horrible graphics, November 9, 2008

By	Tom Seaver (Downingtown, PA USA) - See all my reviews

My level of web development is pretty basic so I bought this book to help me migrate from using FrontPage to Web Expression. I found the chapters to be well laid out and full of step by step examples. It was useful to go to the publisher's website to get copies of the files used in the examples. However, I found the graphics (screen shots) in the book to be very frustrating. First of all they are too small. I often needed to get out a magnifying glass to see the details that the author was trying to demonstrate. Second, the examples are in black and white with a lot of grey shadings obscuring important text in the examples.

4.0 out of 5 stars Easy to read, June 22, 2009

By	Brandi Waskul - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I thought this book had a great format and was fairly easy to read. Sometimes they would assume I knew what certain things were, but I guess this is for intermediate users, so that would probably be why. Overall, I think this is a good source book.