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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #117484 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 792 pages

From the Back Cover

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.

About the Author

Jim Cheshire is the owner of Jimco Software and Books and is the author of several Web design books. In his real job, Jim works as an escalation engineer at Microsoft on the ASP.NET and IIS teams. He has worked on the FrontPage, Visual Basic, ASP, IIS, and ASP.NET teams at Microsoft over the past 10 years.

You can reach Jim by visiting one of his web sites, www.jimcobooks.com or www.jimcosoftware. com. You can also email him at jcheshire@jimcobooks.com.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Book
Having previously used Dreamweaver, I recently decided to change over to Expression Web 2 for website creation. Although the program is, in my opinion, a lot more intuitive to use as compared to Dreamweaver, I needed a guide book to help with the more in-depth features of the program. This book is very well laid out, and written in a very readable style. I found the text to cover just the perfect amount of detail, enough to teach the program, without getting flooded in unnecessary extra information. Also I was pleased by the large amount of screen shots, which are very helpful in making the text even more understandable.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone using Expression Web 2. It is by far the best software related instruction book I have ever read.

Thorough but not a book for a novice web designer
If you have prior experience with web design and are buying this book to learn new software then this book is fine - it is more of a reference text than a "how to guide for first time webdesigners". The reason this book is not suitable for someone wanting to take the first dip into desiging their first website is that within the first few pages the author uses jargon such as CSS, FTP, HTTP via FrontPage Server Extensions and WebDAV.

Expression Web 2 'Bible'.
Latest edition of Jim Cheshire's comprehensive book on Microsoft Expression Web, covering the new features in Expression Web 2. Detailed explanation of the use of the program including all the new additions such as support for PHP. The essential guide.