Expression Web Class @ LVS Online

When you create a web page in Microsoft Word, Excel, or other product, the page contains proprietary information that allows the page to be reopened in the program that created it. When you import it into Expression Web, you get a whole lot of unnecessary code that will most likely conflict with the style information you’ve created for your site.

If you don’t create your pages in Expression Web, then this will happen. The way to prevent that from happening is to save the file as a text file. The problem is you lose all your formatting and will, most likely, have to reformat the information when you add it to your web site.

Although this process can be tedious, it does insure that the page will only contain the code pertinent to your site and the page will be formatted to conform with the other pages. It’s a no harm-no foul kind of thing!

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Take my Expression Web, Quicken Basics or CoffeeCup Software class and take 10% off

Coupon Code:  MARCH09DS

Coupon expires March 11, 2009

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The March session classrooms open March 9, 2009.
The March session registration will end on March 11, 2009
The first lesson for the March session will post on March 14, 2009
http://www.lvsassociates.com/register/

Check out my other classes:

Quicken Basics

CoffeeCup Software

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Expression Web Extras Toolbar

This collection of macros gives some very useful features, all accessible from a single toolbar:

• Sitemap Builder
• Robots.txt builder
• Property Count buttons (which give details of a pages title, description and keywords)
• Image Text Window (manage the properties of all the images on a page from a single dialog window)
• A ‘Close without Saving’ button
• A free-form ‘Notes’ feature
• A Timer, useful for task/job logging 
• A Task Pane Cleaner (or ‘Hider’) giving the ability to toggle task panes on and off, freeing up the design area

Cost: $16.95. Full details and a 15 day trial at http://www.expressionextras.com/ Expression Extras

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Want to take this class for a 20% discount? You’re reading this correctly. If you’re a NEW student (new to LVS) and want to take the Expression Web class this session, just enter the code JAN09 when you register and you’ll get 20% off the price of the class.

So…what are you waiting for? Go register

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Don’t forget to sign up for the new session and don’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable knowledge about working with Expression Web. It’s a wonderful program with lots of ins and outs. This is your opportunity to learn how to use this program to maximize you potential.

Learn more by clicking on this link

Tell all your friends. Take the class together so you can “group study” and learn even more. Check this blog for links to new information and add-ons for the program.

What are you waiting for? Sign up now

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This contest is open to all students and ends January 7, 2009.

3 WAYS TO BE ENTERED INTO THE CONTEST DRAWING!

1. Create an item for download from the LVS Library http://students.lvsonline.com/ – examples: PSP Picture Tube, PSP Picture Frame, PSP Brush, Photoshop Brush, Photoshop Preset. Submit as many you’d like to contest@lvsonline.com

Images submitted remain the property of the owner. Any Copyright violations remain the sole responsibility of the person who submitted the image(s).

When submitting images, please include your First and Last name.  Submission of an item signifies your permission for LVS to offer it for download on the Student Library site:  http://students.lvsonline.com/.  If you wish, at any point to have your image(s) removed, it is up to you to e-mail us with that request. Please allow sufficient time for the removal of the requested image.

LVS will remove any image where claims of Copyright violation have been made by another party.

2.  If you have a website or blog, create a link back to LVS Online.  You may use one of the images here:  http://www.lvsonline.com/logos.shtml  or create your own image or a text link.  You must email us with the URL of the web page that contains the link back.  (one page per web site only please) Submit link to contest@lvsonline.com

3.  Write a review about LVS on our Google Local Business page.  Just follow this URL http://tinyurl.com/5tdeo2 and click on the Review link.   NOTE:  If you don’t have a Google account, you will need to create one to sign in.

For each graphic, link back, and review you submit you will be entered into a drawing.

Final prizes will be announced Dec. 10 but they will include:
Corel KPT
Corel Knockout 2
Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2
LVS Hosting Starter Account (includes domain name)
Free LVS Class

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Updating your site with standards-compliant HTML
(from the Expression Web Team Blog)

FrontPage helped bring WYSIWYG publishing to the World Wide Web. Since those early beginnings, however, the web has changed; countless new technologies have emerged, evolved, and slipped into obscurity. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has led the way in defining the web’s technological common ground, referred to as web standards. Websites that conform to W3C web standards are referred to as standards-compliant.

In this article, we’ll start the migration process by cleaning up the code so that it’s more in alignment with web standards and start moving style and formatting out of the web pages and into a cascading style sheet (CSS).

Before we begin, I strongly encourage you to make a backup copy of your website.

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Browsers read the DOCTYPE declaration on a page to determine which version of HTML (or XHTML) the page uses. Expression Web uses the DOCTYPE declaration for validation and IntelliSense code completion. Adding a DOCTYPE declaration to your website’s pages makes it easier to create and maintain valid code throughout your project.

If your project contains no FrontPage web components, set the DOCTYPE to XHTML Transitional. If your project does contain FrontPage web components, you’ll experience fewer problems if you set the DOCTYPE to HTML 4.01 Transitional.

To set the DOCTYPE for a single page, from the Expression Web Code view:

Press CTRL+HOME – the cursor moves to the head of the page (Line 1, Column 1)
Press CTRL+ENTER – the DOCTYPE menu displays.
Select the appropriate DOCTYPE from the drop-down list.
Repeat this procedure to set the DOCTYPE for every page in your project.

Now that the existing pages all have DOCTYPE declarations, this would be an excellent time to set the DOCTYPE for the entire project so that any new documents you add to the site are created with the correct DOCTYPE declaration. Click Tools, and then click Page Editor Options. Select the Authoring tab and set the Document Type Declaration.

Code cleanup
Once you’ve set the DOCTYPE declaration on a page and while you’re still in Code view, right-click on the page and select Reformat HTML. This will tidy up the code formatting and attempt to validate the page against the declared DOCTYPE. If there are any code errors, Expression Web will highlight them in yellow. DOCTYPE validation errors are displayed with a squiggly red underline.

Go through the code and clear up what you can. When you hover your mouse cursor over an error, a tooltip displays with details about the error to help you find a solution.

Moving the presentation out of the HTML page

More on this to follow

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Buyer beware…there are issues with this program, both for Expression Web and Dreamweaver. Don’t jump in to buy it without finding out as much about it as you can before you buy. Their tech support is less than stellar!

I learned the hard way!

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Every web site should be section 508 accessible. Making sure folks who are visually handicapped have access to the information on your site doesn’t really require you to do that much extra work but it’s extremely important that you create accessible site.

To find out some useful hints, visit this site: How to Make Accessible Web Content Using Microsoft Expression Web

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