Course Overview
Microsoft Expression Web is
Microsoft's professional web design tool (and a successor to Microsoft
FrontPage). This two day practical, hands-on course you is designed to
teach you how to use Expression Web to design and build attractive,
CSS-based, scalable websites and front ends for web-based applications.
During
the course you will design, build and test your own mini site. You will
also plan a site, build pages using HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS),
incorporate email and manage internet and intranet content. This course
will also highlight what works and what doesn't when designing and
maintaining a web site and how to attract visitors to your site. This is a
practical and comprehensive introduction to Microsoft Expression Web.
Course
content
Introduction
· Exploring the interface
·
Setting the page size
· Using the Task Panes and Toolbars
·
HTML?and CSS
Planning your website
· Understanding your audience
·
Creating template based sites
· Converting existing assets (graphics
and logos) for the web
· Importing an existing site
· Using the
Website View
Working with pages
· Setting page properties
·
Previewing pages in a browser
Working with text
· Entering and
selecting text
· Indenting paragraphs
· Aligning text
·
Creating headings
· Creating lists
Working with images
·
Importing images
· Adding borders, margins or padding
·
Resizing and resampling images
· Understanding image formats
Creating
links
· Adding and targeting links
· Using the Hyperlinks tools
·
Creating image links
Creating styles with CSS
· Using the CSS
tools
· Creating font sets
· Creating Tag-based styles
·
Creating Class-based styles
· Creating Inline styles
· Copying
and changing styles
· Creating style sheets
· Problem solving
Creating
layouts with CSS
· Positioning properties
· Using the Font and
Clear tags
· Using contextual selectors
· Creating CSS layouts
from scratch
Adding interactive behaviours
· Creating interactive
buttons
· Adding behaviours to elements
· Using Jump menus
Adding
tables
· Selecting table elements
· Splitting and merging cells
·
Formatting tables and cells
· Adding Excel spreadsheets
· Using
layout tables
Adding forms
· Adding form fields
· Adding
group boxes
· Check boxes and radio buttons
· Adding submit and
reset buttons
· Saving form results
Publishing your site
·
Checking your site's functionality
· Publishing selected pages
Data
binding
· Introducing data source controls
· Using the
sqlDataSource control
· Displaying and editing middle-tier data using
the ObjectDataSource control
· Displaying XML data
Displaying
data with the GridView control
· Filtering data in the GridView control
·
Allowing users to select from a drop down list
Validating user input
·
Overview of ASP.NET?validation controls
· Using the simple validators
·
Separating validation into validation groups
Themes and master pages
·
Creating a consistent website
· Working with master pages
Going
live
· Attracting traffic to your site
· Testing on different
browsers
· Accessibility issues
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