Expression Web Tips

Do you hate to spend your time searching the web for sites with information, tutorials, and such on Expression Web? Do you find the sites, then forget to bookmark them? Woulddn’t you rather spend your time working on your site than hunting for the tutorials and resources you need to get the job done?

Then our [...]

Each time I install a new version of Expression Web, I always have to re-enter all of the publishing information for each site. Wouldn’t it be nice if I could just copy them for one version to another. Now you can migrate existing file definitions  from version 3 to version 4. You will need  to [...]

In Expression Web 4.0, if you need to change the options for spelling to cover UK spellings, you will need to make the change in two places:

Tools > Page Editor Options > General tab – Spelling:- Set Spelling language from the drop-down

and

Tools > Spelling Options > Custom Dictionaries > Set this to English (UK) as [...]

The question comes up quite often on both the Expression Web and FrontPage lists as to  “What are all those _vti folders for? Can I just delete them? ” A fellow MVP, Minal Agarwal, on her Saffron Stroke blog has just posted an article on Add or remove metadata in Expression Web where she answers [...]

Normally, I edit my external style sheet working directly within the style sheet and take advantage of Intellisense. Today I was using the Modify Styles Task Panel to make some changes and noticed that the edited styles was not quite as I expected.

Original style -

#leftColumn1 {
padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;
background-color: #eaeff5;
float: left;
border-right: solid 1px #9bb6d2;
width: [...]