Video: CREATE A STANDARD WEB SITE WITH EXPRESSION WEB

Presenter:Todd Miranda

Expression Web makes the job of creating a new web site easier with an intuitive user interface and easy to use tools. This video briefly introduces some of the Expression Web interface and demonstrates how to create a new web site using a few of the standard tools provided in Expression Web.

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The purpose is presentation is demonstrate how to build a website he marshals expression with a box of expression when one of the tools available in Marshall s expressions we must begin by creating a new website to create a one page website which gives a single single white page default notice we ve got four planes that are available to us a folder list by which lists all the folders and files in our website at CSS properties pane which allows us to affect tag properties in CSS properties are elements of a female to what thing which allows us to have access to the tools that we use to build our site animated spouse which allows to manage the files that are actually does begin by creating a looking error default HTML file will begin adding an image


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To try or image individual properties for slow select an image OS alternate text would also think aware image looks wicked Cesare wraps its alignment its margins and Cyrus Pierce are initially added Pierce is corresponding image tag in HTML now clicking on this tag we can go here affect the properties of that tag using the tag property stuck paying if we apply a count of styling element to the stack like center will get a bit of created forests with a particular style they ll saw


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Wanted out of her good name for style sweep over your main styles pane right click and rename classes fell 1 and will rename it so that it makes more sense logo image noticed a reference our site is updated for us a reference with our style block is updated as well and the names of the easier as good of year and creates additional text welcome to my website help here to ask if the paragraph tag node we can affect the tag properties or paragraph here or we can manipulated directly in HTML but for many styles to create a new style trickery style called main text and where is that it s fought to font family was


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Its font size s four way font style alias of the color so that we have a new style called main text if we highlight her element right click on main text and do a plus file we can apply that style directly to her element in this case is paragraph of what we ve created a style which can come over to her CSS properties pane and we can affect that style by setting its properties here is that we were created and set the alarm at the center great with as more text enter my site will go back to this moment as it would create a new page a couple ways we can do that by clicking this icon we can create a new page of


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A default which are cases HTML you can change the default based on flawed for this tab we can also come in here and open with different folders remain is that it is the home page and would you believe it if we create a new file using the drop down select page we have some more options available to us in this case is create a new page using a CSS layout in CSS layouts are given to us by default is create a header and have a two columns a footer and will create a file it creates for a stylesheet that goes along with it and it creates the file for us and it is here with all the different areas of the page laid out for us to add content to so first of all


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Said something to her without her image and there we were elected this we go to picture properties and we can go because like that image the same way we did for the show your alternate way was to create a page that has an image in it and you say that page you get the option that says where he won up with the image is included in a file in this case will create a folder called images as former website and will place it there now we go back toward a page and we will add the sticker file we only have the file in our website so it s much easier to navigate to with such alternate takes years well and again affect the appearance of the water will center this image


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This page well over a left column we might have a menu and that might that when you might have an element called home an element called start page will will say this is our home page and the previous day for start page of a Hollywood text by clicking select hyperlink which until it is a hyperlink and if you go to location a place in this document are to be an anchor in the document we can create a new document and have a go to that habit via mail to or existing file or webpage and will use an existing file or webpage ever to use this in untitled one unsaved file correct that you get HREF figures file was going to make this our collective will goes back to our start page they ll release


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This file if you asked us for file might recreate the following and will collect your page or a local homepage and workers say the CSS file and we ll just call it made nobly save the page it automatically updated the reference in this HTML file to itself all my assessment content in the content area is where content goes does go back to our first page and with high white intervals like this right click and make a hyperlink and this is going to tour home page is created right


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Decibels or pages that couple pages to go to see what happens if we saved all the pages and you open this in a browser one thing is really nice about fresh web is that we can view the page in a couple different ways obviously it will detect any browser that you got assaulted her machine but this will allow you to view the page in a browser and a particular resolution switching to see how your page looks at that resolution in this case will open her up and Windows Internet Explorer and will vote 800x600 so here s a link front homepage we can go to the start page and we can click here to go back to the homepage is always there for directs itself so that you created your first website to my self expression web

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