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17 HTML and Microsoft
Expression Web
In this chapter, you will learn how to
4 Use the Expression Web interface.
4 Create a new Web site.
4 Create a new page using a CSS template.
4 Insert text and graphics.
4 Apply text and page formatting.
4 Insert hyperlinks.
Throughout this book, you’ve been building your HTML knowledge by working directly
with the code in Notepad. That’s the best way to understand what is really going on in
a Web page.
However, after you achieve basic HTML proficiency, you might decide that using a Web
development application such as Microsoft Expression Web makes sense for your situation.
Web development software can dramatically cut down on the amount of typing
that you need to do, and you gain the ability to both edit and preview your pages within
a single application.
In this chapter, you will learn the basics of Microsoft Expression Web, which is one possible
application that you might choose for HTML editing. Expression Web is a simple graphical
Web design application, sold in retail stores and online. You’ll learn how to create a basic
Web site using Expression Web, how to create a page that uses a CSS-based layout, and
how to place and format text and graphics on the pages of your Web site.
This chapter uses Expression Web 4 for its examples, which was the most recent version
available at the time of this writing. Expression Web 4 provides only very limited support
for HTML5, but you can manually type in any HTML5 tags as needed.
See Also Do you need only a quick refresher on the topics in this chapter? See the Key Points
section at the end of this chapter.
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