1. Creating an Expression Web Site
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Creating an Expression Web Site

2. Chapter Objectives Start and quit Expression Web
Describe the features of Expression Web’s main window
Create a new Expression Web site
Set page properties
Enter and format text
Create headings and lists
Switch views
Spell check a page
Save a page
Show and hide visual aids
Use Quick Tag Selectors
Display a page in a browser
Close an Expression Web site
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3. What is Expression Web? It is a WYSIWYG web site authoring tool
You can create or edit HTML files that contain all types of content, including CSS files.
Before we begin… read the Project on pages 2-3
Once you have done this, go to your home directory and create a Webex directory. Underneath that create a Ch1 subdirectory.
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4. Plan Ahead
1. Choose a website structure to use as a starting point. – What is the purpose of the site? How many pages will you need? How will users navigate the pages?
2. Determine folder structure and file naming conventions. All files have to be in the same location.
3. Determine page property settings that will apply to all pages.
Decide on the page layout. Text, pictures, video, etc.
Determine the text content of the pages. Use as feww words as possible.
Determine the format for the text elements of the page. (headings, fonts, lists, colors)
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5. Start Expression Web
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6. Resetting Workspace Layout
Click Panels on the menu bar to open the Panels menu and then point to Reset Workspace Layout
Click Reset Workspace Layout to restore the panels to their default layout
If a site is open, click Site on the menu bar to open the Site menu, and then click Close to close the site
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7. Creating a Web Site Do pages 10-13
Be careful! You aren’t using a USB drive, but saving this to your Ch1 folder in your home directory that you just created!
Double click on the default.html file.
Check out the design, split, code buttons on bottome of page
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8. Setting Page Properties
Here we will set properties that apply to the website, such as:
Page descriptions
Keywords
Titles
Etc
Do pages and the result will look like the following slide …
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9. Setting Page Properties
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10. Adding a <Div> Tag
Why use <DIV> tags – makes pages download faster and allows you to formation sections of the page at a time with similar formatting options.
4 Divisions
Masthead
Navigation
Content
Footer
Many of the following commands should look familiar.
Do pages
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11. Completing Page Content
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12. Saving a Web Page
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13. Formatting and Styles
Formatting – the combination of design characteristics that are applied to text, specifying a hierarchy of headings and text levels.
Fonts & font sizes
Bold, italics, underline, etc.
Alignment
Indentation
Headings, subheadings
Do pages
Let me see it when you are finished! See next slide!
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14. Should look similar to this!
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15. Spell Check a Page Do pages 46-47, just to humor me 
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16. Showing Codes and Splitting Views
Click the Show Code View button at the bottom of the editing window to see the HTML tags and the assigned styles
Click the Show Split View button at the bottom of the Editing window to show both Code and Design views simultaneously. In Code view, drag the scroll box up to show the head area of the code.
Drag the separator that divides the two sections up to display more of the Design view window
Select the words, Natural Beauty, in the Design view window. Expression Web will also select them in the Code view window
Click anywhere in the Design view window to deselect the text
Click the Show Design View button to close Code view
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17. Showing Codes and Splitting Views
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18. Viewing the Page in the Snapshot Panel
Click Snapshot on the Panels menu to open the Snapshot panel
Drag the Snapshot panel scroll box down to see the rest of the default.html page
Click the Close button to close the Snapshot panel
This will show you how your page looks in Internet Explorer!
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19. Hiding and Displaying Visual Aids
Do pages 52-55
Look at the Printing section on page 56. Typically we WILL NOT print the items we work on as a class project thru the chapter, but you will print your labs so that I will have something to write on when I hand them back to you.
You need to know how to print!
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20. Closing a Web Page
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21. Quitting Expression Web
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22. Whatever shall we do now?
Labs
Homework
In the Lab Lab2: Sweet Tooth Bakery – pg
Cases and Places #4 – Make it Personal
Print out a copy of both when finished. Hand them in together. Make sure your name is in the footer of each website.
The files you need are on public/WEB Expression data files/Chapter 01
Wheel of
Due next class meeting at the beginning of class.
5 points deducted for each day late or if turned in after the beginning of class.
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