Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web 3 in 24 Hours
| 2009-09-28 00:00:00 | | 0 | Microsoft Expression
In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you?ll learn how to build flexible, easy-to-maintain, standards-based websites with Microsoft Expression Web 3. Using this book?s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you?ll master the entire process, from concept through delivery. You?ll learn powerful ways to plan, design, construct, and even redesign websites that are simple to manage and easy to repurpose. Each lesson builds on what you?ve already learned, giving you a strong real-world foundation for success, no matter what kind of site you?re building!
Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Expression Web 3 tasks. Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge. By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion. Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks. Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid themLearn how to?
Build your first Expression Web 3 website in just five minutes Establish work processes for building standards-based sites faster, with far less work Write error-free code quickly and easily with Code view and IntelliSense Create hyperlinks that simplify navigation, perform actions, and send commands Understand, create, and modify CSS style sheets with unprecedented speed and accuracy Use Dynamic Web Templates to consistently format (or reformat) hundreds of pages Implement state-of-the-art interactivity with buttons, behaviors, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Publish simple Silverlight applications and add multimedia content from Flash and other sources Build advanced drop-down and other CSS-based menus from scratch Learn how and when to use each of Expression Web?s six publishing options Integrate web application code written in ASP.NET or PHPUser review
Started well, but bogged down in details midway.
I find myself getting increasingly frustrated by this product and the treatment in the book. The examples are difficult to follow, I carefully try to follow along, but my results do not mirror the examples in the book, and there is no clear explanation of what to do to remedy the code. I got about halfway through the book (the CSS sections), then got completely bogged down. This book, or at least the second half of it, seems to be oriented toward the experienced web designer, not the novice (which many reviewers claimed.) I wouldn't recommend the book unless you are an experienced web developer.
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Great step by step book.
If you're looking for a step by step book then this one is a good one for you. If you drink a lot of coffee you might actually finish the book in 24 hours :-) No, really this is a good one for your library.
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Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web 3 Book
This book is the perfect guide to using Microsoft Expression Web 3 software. It provides step-by-step instruction with easy to understand text. I couldn't be more please with it! Great book at a very affordable price!
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Great Reference
I bought Expression Web 3 to replace MS FrontPage 2002. I was specifically looking for help in two areas: dynamic web templates and expandable css menus. This book was very helpful and taught me more than I expected - including they way I thought about web design was completely wrong! I had never used style sheets, but this book made me realize their value and now I'm convinced they are the way to go in designing.
I only maintain a personal site and am not a professional. I designed my page with Frontpage and have been wanting to update it for a long time, but knew it would be major overhaul if I didn't get another program. This book has taught me that it's not going to be as big of a job as I had thought, but I am going to take the time to change to cascading style sheets because of this book.
The book starts out very simply and gets complex toward the end. Take it a chapter at a time and you'll make it through just fine. Great for a beginner, but best for someone like me - someone who has tinkered around an knows just a little bit, but is looking to expand the knowledge.
The book is written in an easygoing manner and it explains difficult concepts easily. The only reason I did not give it 5 Stars is because it did not address a specific issues I was looking for. It does show how to make CSS based horizontal and vertical menus. It shows how to make drop-down horizontal menus. The one thing I really wanted was an expandable vertical menu - when the mouse hovers over a menu (list) item, the sublist items appear to the right. The book does not specifically show how to do this. But, I was able to take my old javascript menu and convert it using techniques I found in this book. So, the book did help me achieve my goal, but a step-by-step would have been awesome! But, I guess the book can't address every question everyone has or it would never end.
Definitely worth the price and if you're switching to Expression Web 3 from an older program, I'd highly recommend this book.
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Excellent Expression-Even for a Beginner
I was a little nervous about Expression Web 3. It's been 7 years since I worked with MS FrontPage and Dreamweaver. I knew just enough to see what Expression Web was offering but not enough to use it without lots of frustration. Thank goodness for Sam's Teach Yourself. It is straightforward and well-organized. I can move to chapters (or `hours`) for step-by-step directions, along with screen shots that make the whole process simple. Expression Web 3 has so many great features. Now, thanks to Sam's Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web 3 in 24 Hours, I can actually use them.
