Introduction to Expression Web 4
Microsoft has introduced Expression Blend as a powerful tool to
help designer and developers join hand in creating a highly interactive and
lively application. We can say that Expression web is the combination of User
thought power, Designers designing skill and developer's outstanding effort.
Hence this is blend of all this and as a result very versatile as well as User
interactive application can be designed through Expression web. User can create
user interface elements in this,Open a site, page,
Use Site Views, Use page views,
Use the Snapshot Panel, Use browser
preview, Use SuperPreview. Apart from Expression Web microsoft has also
introduced other highly interactive applications such as:
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Expression Blend 4
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Expression Design 4
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Expression Encoder 4
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Expression Encoder Screen capture
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Expression Web Super Preview
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Expression Web 4
On account of its high definition Expression Web 4 has hundreds
of controls and interfaces divided into three main types:
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menus : There are twelve menus present on the
menubar of the Expression Web4.
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toolbars : Toolbar is one of the important part of the
interactive designing. There are a eleven number of toolbars available in
Expression Web.
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panels : There are approximate twenty panels
available in Expression Web4.
The profusely loaded toolbox of the expression web makes it more
easier to use and sophisticated to design and outstanding to develop. Take a
look at the toolbox of this Expression web, you will find that the toolbox is
divided into four main parts
HTML tags
- Div
- Span
- Break
- Horizontal line
- Image
- Inline Frame
- Layer
- Paragraph
Form controls
- Advanced Button
- Drop down box
- Form
- Group Box
- Input ( Button)
- Input (Checkbox)
- Input (File)
- Input (Hidden)
- Input (Image)
- Input (Radio)
- Input (Reset)
- Input (Submit)
- Input (Text)
- Label
- Text Area
Media
- Deep zoom
- Flash movie
- Silverlight
- Windows Media Player
ASP.NET controls : This contains a
large number of tools which makes the user feels as if working with the Visual
studio itself. These tools are mainly :
- Standard
- Data
- Validation
- Navigation
- Login
- Webparts
- Ajax
Here all these tools of ASP.NET are further divided into number
of tools.
Installation :
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To install Expression Web4, Download Expression studio
Ultimate from
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=5915.
This is a complete pack of all the Expression Tools together with Expression
Web4.
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Next requirement for successful installations is .net
framework4.0to download this visit this link
http://www.filehippo.com/search?q=framework+4.
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Now install Expression studio ultimate and enjoy developing
applications in Expression Web4.
Getting Started with Expression Web :
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After successful installation select Expression web from All
Programs--> Microsoft Expression --> Expression Web 4.
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The home screen opens up and a message window pops up asking
you to make to make Expression Web 4 your default HTML
editor. Now the front page opens up which contains menus in the menubar,
toolbar , toolbox, Folder window which shows the folder or images you would
be using in your application, There are drag and drop Html tags and
similarly other controls. In the center white part you can edit your
application in the design as well as mark up view.
Now you can create your own website or edit website in this
application. Hope you will find it interesting to design and edit web
applications in Expression Web.