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Product Description Special Edition Using Microsoft® Expression® Web 2 The only EXPRESSION WEB 2 book you need The successor to the best-selling book on the first release of Microsoft Expression Web, this book provides comprehensive coverage of Microsoft Expression Web 2. You’ll learn the basics of Web design and Expression Web 2 and gain valuable insight into Expression Web 2’s advanced features, such as ASP.NET and PHP development. If you’re interested in learning how to design standards-compliant Web sites using Expression Web 2, this is the only book you need. • Create standards-compliant Web sites with Expression Web 2 that work consistently in all browsers. • Become proficient in the use of CSS by learning how to use the powerful CSS tools in Expression Web 2. • Learn how to take advantage of ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX without writing any code. • Learn how to use the new PHP features available in Expression Web 2. • Add dynamic, interactive content with Behaviors and Layers. • Design your Web site for accessibility using both Section 508 and WCAG compliance. “Expression Web was built to help web authors create standards-based and standards-compliant web sites. Jim Cheshire has a broad understanding of those standards and a deep appreciation of Expression Web. Put the two together and you’ve got a guide that helps you understand and build sites that meet the challenges of modern Web design.” —Steven Guttman, Product Unit Manager, Expression Web Jim Cheshire is the owner of Jimco Software, a freeware software company and technology review site, and is the author of several books on Web development and ASP.NET. Jim has been heavily involved in Web development for more than a decade and has operated and designed many Web sites during that time. He’s been featured in numerous publications, including MSDN Magazine and PC Magazine. Jim previously worked on the FrontPage team at Microsoft and currently is an escalation engineer on the ASP.NET and IIS teams. Category: Web Development Covers Microsoft Expression Web 2 User Level Beginning—Advanced On the CD-ROM • Sample files from the author • FREE! full version of Logo Creator (retail value of $39.95) • FREE! full version of DHTML Menu Builder Lite (retail value of $25) • Electronic version of this book in Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) Cover image: Digital Vision Photography/Veer Inc.
Featured Customer Reviews  Very Helpful Book!,
August 18, 2008
The book comes with a companion CD which includes a logo creator and sample code. I highly recommend this book to those who are just learning Expression Web. I know I will keep mine handy by my PC for quick reference for some time to come.
In addition to the CD, you can also visit the authors site at [...] The website has a lot of great video tutorials which teach you to accomplish the tasks in the book.
Kudos to the author! Don't bother if you have 1st edition,
July 11, 2008Excellent Book!,
July 04, 2008 This book is very well written and composed. The beginning of the book sums up the basics, letting you know what will be covered. From then on, each chapter is full of nearly all of the information you need in order to complete each individual task. The chapters are neat, organized, and very precise. Each chapter tells you what it is about, then tells you how to do it.
I bought this book (Special Edition Using Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Special Edition Using)) the same day that I bought Microsoft Expression Web 2, and it helped me tremendously. (I bought the program -and- the book on Tuesday)
If you are reading this and contemplating buying this book over any other, my vote is that you buy this book. Like I said, it is clear and direct, and explains everything you need to know. What little bit of information that isn't covered is some of the extremely basic concepts that a quick google search will resolve.
Hopefully this review has been helpful...
Again, 2 thumbs up to this book!
-Randal
 Disorganized,
June 01, 2008
Beware,
May 23, 2008 Beware if you are trying to learn Expression Web (EW). This book is not for you. This is for someone who has been doing web designing (or developing) for a long time using other tools. It is not for those who are just learning. He deals with all kinds of technical stuff right at the beginning and doesn't explain. He refuses to tell you WHY you might want to perform such and such a function he's only interested in telling you HOW. His examples will include making code changes to CSS sheets before he even discusses CSS sheets. He doesn't even discuss creating text on a web page until well after page 100.
If you are looking to switch tools and use Expression Web, so you're already familiar with setting up a web page, or a web site, and using CSS, then this book might be good for you. But if you are looking to learn from the ground up, go somewhere else. He mentions himself in the book that this is a book to be used as a reference manual and not to be read sequentially. But to use it as a reference manual, you need to know enough to ask the right questions and then look up the answers. This book will do nothing to help you to ask the right questions.
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