Expression Web 3.0 Tutorials EBook, 2nd edition.

The 2nd edition of Expression Web 3.0 Tutorials has just been released. The Ebook is a compilation of my tutorials for Expression Web 3.0 in pdf format. The EBook is then zipped for easy download.

Tutorials included in the EBook:

• Installing Expression Web 3.0
• Setting Up Expression Web 3.0
• Create a Website
• Create a Blank Web page
• Create a Web page layout
• Add Horizontal To Navigation to your Web Page Layout
• Add Vertical Navigation to your Web Page Layout
• Publishing your Website
• Backing up your Local Website to a Backup Location on your hard drive.
• Create and Style a Data Table.

You can read more and download Expression Web 3.0 Tutorials 2nd edition

If you have your sites hosted with Bluehost (affiliate link) you have a tool called the Index Manager that can handle this problem for you.

The Index Manager allows you to customize the way a directory will be viewed on the web. You can select between a default style, no indexes, or two types of indexing. If you do not wish for people to be able to see the files in your directory, choose no indexing.

• Log into your Bluehost control panel.
• Locate the Advanced menu.
  

  Bluehost Advanced Menu Panel

• Locate and click on the “Index Manager” icon (third icon from left).
• This will bring up the Directory Selection box.
  

  Directory Selection Box

• Choose either the Web Root (public_html) or the Document Root. If you have multiple domains select the domain you want to index from the drop down box.If you do have multiple domain names please be careful not to check the “Skip this question, and always open this directory in the future when opening.”
• This will bring you to the “Index Manager Menu” that will allow you to navigate to different directories.
• You can navigate to different directories by clicking on the folder icons. Select the directory you wish to index click on the directory name and your “Index Manager” will offer you  four options: a default style, no indexes, or two types of indexing. If you do not wish for people to be able to see the files in your directory, choose no indexing.
  

  Index Manager Options

• Make  your selection then click the “Save” button in the center of your screen. You will then receive a confirmation page showing the updated settings.

Now if someone clicks on a folder that does not contain an index.htm file, they will receive an error message like
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /images/ on this server.

You can also customize the page and message your viewer receives by customizing the 403.shtml file.

Very simple to do and no one will see a listing of your files again.

Tina and I have been supporters of  Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor for Expression Web since it was first released. We were sad to see it had been dropped by WebAssist. I have used it to produce some of the FREE templates I offer at Expression Web Tutorials & Templates.

Tina and I decided to combine forces to create a set of basic dynamic web site templates complete with external style sheet based on the CSS Sculptor layouts.  The set of twelve templates have been tweaked and heavily commented for ease of use. Each set also contains a search box page and contact form page.  Complete instructions for installing the templates within Expression Web and working with them are available from Expression Web 3.0 Site Templates.

The series of twelve templates are divided into four layout groupings:

• One column with top navigation, header, and footer
• Two column with left sidebar, top navigation, header, and footer
• Two column right sidebar, top navigation, header, and footer
• Three columns, left and right sidebar, top navigation

Within each of the layout groups you will find the following different types:

• Fixed to 800px- Page and column  widths are set with pixels and do not resize if the browser window or browser text size changes.
• Fixed to 1024px- Page and column  widths are set with pixels and do not resize  if the browser window or browser text size changes.
• Liquid – Page and column  widths are set with percentages which allows them to resize when the browser window changes with the exception of the three column templates which has the left and right side columns set in pixel widths.

Did I mention that all of this is FREE!  The site templates can be viewed and downloaded from Expression Web 3.0 Site Templates. They are packaged in groups of three and will work with ALL versions of Expression Web.

Also available on the site are tutorials on the following topics:

• Working With Forms
• Add a Search Box – Add Bing Search Box
• About Privacy Policies on your site
• Site Map page
• Links page
• About page
• Working with a Site DWT

Download and install the template packages, one or all of them, then create a site with one of them. If you take the time to study the style sheets which are heavily commented and the xhtml code which is also commented, it will help you to learn css. Read the instructions for editing the style sheets to change the “look” of the site.

Download one or all of the Expression Web  Site Templates. Once you have tweaked the basic layout with your own colors and graphics, if you send us the url of your site we will add some examples of what can be done with the templates.   After you have had a chance to work with the templates, Tina and I would love to hear your comments. You can leave them  on the Comments section of this post or our Contact Page. Please feel free to also ask questions.

1. First Prize – Product Key for Expression Web 3.0 HTML – Emily Gulledge
2. Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web EBook  -  Lorie Johnson
3. Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web EBook  -  Joyce Reid
4. Expression Web Tips Ebooks Vol l & ll – Mike LeGay
5. Expression Web Tips Ebooks Vol l & ll – miguel gin
6. Expression Web Tips Ebooks Vol l & ll – Gaurav Kale
7. Spawn for Expression Web – Debbie Miller
8. Spawn for Expression Web -  Les Bain

Have no fear, if you did not win the Grand Prize this time around, you will have another chance at Easter.

Never fear, Tina Clarke has come to the rescue with her Close All Pages – Close All Pages Command tip.  If you are still using Expression Web version 1 or 2, you can use this tip. If you are using EW 3.o, you can still find ‘Close All Page‘ under your Windows menu.

FP Cleaner for Expression Web 3.
Expression Web 3 Cleanup Utility

FP Cleaner does not require installation and will run from the desktop. The program will run on any computer that runs Windows 95 and newer and with any operating system including Windows Vista and Windows 7. In other words, if your computer can run Expression Web, then it can run FPCleaner for EW.

You can download FPCleaner from http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/ew3.htm

What Do the Buttons Do?

• The top button ‘Restore Default Menus and Toolbars‘ is not available as the ability to customize the toolbars is not available in EW 3.
• Change the ‘Last Web Open Setting‘  allows you to change that setting to ensure the program is not trying to open a web when it starts. This can be useful if you have EW is set to open the last web edited and that web has a problem.
• ‘Clear the Hidden Temporary Files‘  checks for the location of the hidden Temporary directory for the logged on User, if the directory exists, pressing this button clears it and moves the files to the Recycle Bin. Files left behind in these directories by an improper computer or program shut down will cause problems when trying to open,  save, and/or  edit pages on your web site.
• ‘Clear the Hidden Web Cache files (*.web)’ - There is a .web file for each of your webs and if these files become corrupted, you may encounter problems opening or closing your web. Clicking this button deletes these files and forces creation of new clean files when each web is opened or published.
• ‘Clear the Find/Replace MRU List‘  clears the Most Recently Used ( MRU ) list of Find/Replace entries
• Clicking ‘Start‘ will Launch Expression Web 3.
• Clicking ‘Close‘  closes FP Cleaner for Expression Web 3 without starting the program.

This is one tool I could not be without. Thank you Steve for making it available. Did I mention it is F REE? Download it from http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/ew3.htm

• First Prize – Product Key to activate a fully working copy of Expression Web 3.0 which includes Expression Design and Expression Encoder as well as SuperPreview – One Winner
  Courtesy of: Chris Leeds Microsoft MVP – Expression Web http://contentseed.com/
• Second Prize – Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web EBook v2.0 – Two Winners
• Third Prize – Expression Web Tips Vol l & ll - Three Winners

Special Prizes are:

• Spawn for Expression Web ** is an add-in to Expression Web which creates JavaScript popup windows in your site for you without having to write any code. Just launch Spawn, set your options, and Spawn does all of the work so you don’t have to.
• Courtesy of Jim Cheshire – Addin Developer http://jimcobooks.com/ There will be TWO lucky winners.

What do I have to do to enter the drawing? Using YOUR OWN WORDS, simply write about our giveaway. You can post your write-up on your blog, website, Facebook, Twitter or anywhere you have a online presence. Once you have written and posted your write-up, fill in the form with your Name, email address and the link to your write-up and we will enter you into the drawing for the giveaway. We will list your link on our website at the end of the giveaway.

When will I know if I am one of the winners? Drawing will be on January 15th. Winners will be notified via email and names will be posted.

If you are not a winner this time, don’t worry Tina and Pat will be having ANOTHER giveaway at Easter with the same prizes and perhaps something special for Easter.

Read the details and Enter the Expression Web Xmas 2009/New Year’s 2010 Giveaway!

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and the Happy 2010!