| Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web 3 in 24 Hours |  | Author: Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Publisher: Sams
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ISBN: 0672330644
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.78
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Publication Date: September 28, 2009
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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 them Learn 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 PHP
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 Be aware before buying this book June 12, 2010
Book Maverick (Pennsylvania)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
You are supposed to be able to download the files necessary to follow on your own computer the examples used in the book. I have been talking with this publisher for over a week to find the files on their website. I have not been able to find them. After numerous emails exchanges with the company, this is finally what I was told:
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Dear John,
There are no downloadable materials for that particular title at this time. The registration links for any of the books say that you will gain access to such material as they become available.
Thanks
Chris
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This is the second book by this publisher that had no files to download but yet they tell you in the book these files are available to download. Be aware!!! Also, this particular book is not that good anyway. The writing meanders too much. In my opinion, look elsewhere.
 Great book June 9, 2010
Software Developer (Charlotte, NC USA)
Picked up 3 books on Expression Web 3. This is the only one I have used! Great examples! Explained well. Even tells you what you might have done wrong with the samples. I like the way the book is layed out and I keep in within reach as a reference.
Expressions Web 3,review by perfumer at Martecci's May 31, 2010
Mr. Martecci (Tulsa, OK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This review is being done mostly on the fly without much time given to edit it further.
To have a frame of reference with the nature of my review, it may be helpful for you to know that I am a perfumer at Martecci's Fine Fragarnces. I am also a part time web desinger. My review of this book is based on my previous experience using Frontpage 2002 to design the site for Martecci's Fine Fragrances. I also have had some using Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX. And for those that do not know, you will note that Adobe acquired Macromedia and Front Page 2002 is an old program. That said, I have not trained on any current (2010) web design software.
Further, in my review below, I wish to state that I did not go over the chapter on Frames (half of Chapter 17), and I did not go over Chapter 22 on using PHP, as I do not use them in the design of my sites.
So, as to my review of "Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web 3 in 24 Hours", I feel the first 10 chapters were quite easy to go through. That is the good side. As for the bad news, these chapters had some minor errors and I feel certain areas could have been explained better.
As for the other chapters, there is the occasional poor punctuation, such as not placing a comma where one should go.
It also seems that the author also copied much of EW2 into this book, but did not make the necessary edits and revisions in every place. I say this without ever reviewing his book on EW2. It just has the feel of repurposing the content without paying extreme attention to details. Considering the nature of what I do, I am probably more detailed than most folk and I don't like to read books with a host of grammatical/punctuational mistakes/errors: I expect authors to have good grammar, and not miss important details. Anyhow, I realize the author may have been on a deadline and that could have affected the content.
On a different note, the book would have been better if the author/publisher would have emboldened and/or enlarged the text (or used a different text where it mentions the "buttons"/ or "fields" one is to press, or information in. It would make for easier reading.
Anyhow, there are numerous instances where the author should have placed the instructions "Click the OK button." Sometimes using one's common sense is good in such cases.
Further, the author does have suggestions for practice exercises at the end of the chapters and that, I feel, is a good idea. Still, I do wish he covered a chapter or two on using the premade templates and modifying them as to size etc., and show how you can use them for one's own purposes.
Overall, most of the content is good and I learned a great deal. And, in the end, I would give the book an 82% to 85%.
 Too technical for me! May 16, 2010
Marsha A. Smith (Pickerington OH USA)
Was hoping to get a lot of info on designing and maintaining my church's website. It did help me a little, but I found it too technical, using terms I wasn't familiar with. I guess I needed more of a beginners book, which I thought this was. Marsha Smith
Outstanding text & reference book May 11, 2010
Derek Carlisle (Washington)
This book is one of the best learning texts I have have ever used. I had not worked with Expression Web 3 before and by the end of the book I felt I had a very good understanding of all aspects of the software. Keep in mind, you need to stick with each chapter and work through all of the exercises - don't be lazy and take short cuts! The beginning chapters are relatively easy, and then once you get into the middle third of the book things get more involved, but if you stick with it, it all comes together. For things you might forget, just use the index in the back to find the old lessons and refer back to them. There are a few typos here and there (such as says "left" when it should have said "right") but if you recognize them and go back and correct your work they actually help you learn (wonder if Morten put them in on purpose). I have used this book so much that the spine is now all broken from going back through the various chapters!
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