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Microsoft Expression Web 2 On Demand

Manufacturer: QUE
Category: EBooks

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Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars

3 reviews
Sales Rank: 40654

Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 456

Dewey Decimal Number: 006.786
ASIN: B0017DQ8JQ

Publication Date: April 4, 2008
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Product Description
This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version. Microsoft Expression Web 2 on Demand FOR THOSE WHO WOULD RATHER BE SHOWN HOW THAN TOLD HOW

SEE HOW TO

- Create Web sites using drag and drop controls

- Insert Flash, Windows Media, and Photoshop content

- Create Cascading Style Sheet layouts

- Integrate media and interactive Web applications using Microsoft Silverlight

- Create a page design using layout tables

- Explore the capabilities of Microsoft Expression Studio

- Add interactive buttons and create hyperlinks

- Create dynamic Web templates to reuse

- Create forms to gather online information

- Write, edit, and optimize code and scripts

- Use IntelliSense to help reduce coding errors

- Retrieve and present data from live RSS feeds

- Integrate data from databases or XML data

- Create dynamic Web content using ASP.NET technology

On the Web

This book uses real world examples to give you a context in which to use the task. This book also includes workshops to help you put together individual tasks into projects. The Expression Web 2 example files that you need for project tasks are available at www.perspection.com

Perspection has written and produced books on a variety of computer software, including Adobe Flash CS3 and 8, Adobe Photoshop CS3 and CS2, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Microsoft Office 2007 and 2003, Microsoft Windows Vista and XP, Microsoft Expression Web, and Apple Mac OS X Leopard. Perspection was founded in 1991, and is committed to providing information and training to help people use software more effectively. Perspection has written more than 80 computer books, and sold more than 5 million copies.

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars

Don't Waste Your Money September 9, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful

This book was shipped to me on June 23, 2008. I picked it up a couple of days later to start learning Expression Web 2. I have been using FrontPage in a simple fashion for ten years. I was reminded in the Introduction to download the example files and workshop files from the Publishers web site.

I found the example files, but there was a note that the workshop files would be available 5/25/08. Bear in mind this was the last week in June that I was reading the note. I purchased this book thinking that these files would teach me how to post a reasonably simple CSS EW2 web site. I emailed Perspection and got a prompt response on 7/16 from the Author, Steve Johnson. Steve said there had been a server crash and they were redoing the files. I thanked him and have continued to check the Perspection site frequently. The note is still there on 9/9/08 indicating they would be available 5/25/08. Maybe they meant 2009.

So I gave up and contacted Amazon's instant call back service. This is a great service, and I commend Amazon. I got a lady whose primary language is obviously not English, and she informed me that since I was past the 30 return period, I would have to pay the return postage and a return charge. So I have written a letter to Jeff Bezos, the President of Amazon protesting. I trusted the Publisher and I don't think I should have to eat this book. I have spent several thousand dollars with Amazon this year, and I expect they will do the "right thing", but it sure is a hassle to have to go through this because of the Publisher's ineptude. This is an esthetically pleaseing book as mentioned, but it is not going to teach you Expression Web 2 even if you have a working knowledge of FrontPage. I have not been able to find a book yet that will do that. Too bad that someone does not seem to be able to write a book like David Plotkin's FrontPage 2002, which taught me how to revise my web site to include Frames and some other simple features in an easy step by step fashion. I am now studying some free Expression Web video tutorial sites, a couple of which are quite good, in an effort to grasp EW2 such that I can put up a simple web site in place of my current FrontPage site. Caveat Emptor on this book.

2 out of 5 stars

Inaccurate Content and Too Simple May 21, 2008
12 out of 12 found this review helpful

I bought this book to try and get a handle on the new features in the product. I found some of the information to be inaccurate (not sure if it was based on a version prior to the version that Microsoft released or if the author was just careless) and some of the information that was included is confusing and hard to follow. I do like the quality of the graphics, but that hardly makes up for the other shortcomings.

There are much better choices available. I also bought Jim Cheshire Using Expression Web 2 and I found it to be much better.

One more thing. I'm not sure why the 5-star review that I see on this book appears here. It appears to be a review for the first Expression Web book from this author. It doesn't seem right for that to be used for this book. Strange.

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent Expression! March 28, 2008
0 out of 11 found this review helpful

I really like this book. I don't write reviews very often, but I was really impressed with this book. It is full color and very clearly written. I wish more technology books were this nice. It is asthetically enjoyable to work with.