Web Site Authoring using Microsoft Expression Web

Prerequisites:

# Anyone wishing to produce well designed web pages and web sites and looking for an introduction to HTML and Microsoft Expression Web versions 1.0 or 2.0.

# Delegates must be frequent users of Windows 9x, NT, XP, or 2000+ and be familiar with the use of LAN-based PC applications and should also be familiar with the World Wide Web. No programming experience is required

Course Description:

This course covers an introduction to HTML and uses Microsoft Expression Web 2 as the main tool. Delegates will learn how to plan a website and understand the essentials of good page design and publishing techniques.

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Use the most common functions of HTML
• Use the functions of Microsoft Expression Web
• Design efficient and visually appealing web pages
• Use Microsoft Office supporting features
• Use features such as tables, forms and images
• Use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
• Design web pages using layers, dynamic templates and behaviours
• Publish the website from the development machine to a server
• Understand the main steps in planning and designing a well-structured website.
• In addition to the theory, the course is designed to provide a high level of hands-on experience of web page creation and web site design. Practical sessions are used throughout to reinforce the teaching points.

This course includes the following modules:

Setting the scene

• Web evolution
• The Internet and intranets
• Benefits to an organisation

Expression Web Editing Environment

• Expression Web work area
• Defining a local site
• Styling Pages
• Creating new Sites and Pages
• Editing Views
• Visual Aids and Task Panes
• Previewing Pages
• Folder list and Reports View

Introduction to HTML

• What is a web page?
• Examining HTML (Hypertext Mark-Up Language)
• A simple web page
• Tags and Elements
• Attributes and Values
• Paragraphs and line breaks
• Headings; Alignment
• Text formatting

Working with Images

• Image file formats
• GIF, JPEG and PNG
• Adding graphics to a page
• Picture properties
• Configuring images
• Background images
• HTML for images

Hyperlinks

• Internal and external hyperlinks
• E-mail links and bookmarks
• Graphical hyperlinks
• Image Maps.
• HTML for links an Image Maps

Tables & Layers

• Creating Tables
• Table Layout and Cells
• Table properties
• Cell properties
• Sizing Cells and Columns
• Inserting rows and columns
• Splitting and merging cells
• HTML for tables
• Layers and the Layers Pane

CSS Styling

• Cascading Style Sheets
• Embedded Styles
• Creating and Using Style Rules (Classes)
• Creating and Linking to External Stylesheets
• Using External Classes
• Editing Style Rules

Publishing a Web

• Expression Web publishing
• Publish log
• Using FTP to Publish
• Excluding files from publishing
• Publishing to a non-extended server
• Alternatives to Expression Web publishing

Forms

• Form creation
• Form components
• Form field names and values
• Processing form results
• Form properties
• Confirmation pages
• HTML for forms

Templates & Interacting with MS Office

• Dynamic Web Templates
• Creating and Using Dynamic Web Templates
• Setting Editable Regions
• Modifying and Detaching from Templates
• Converting Office formats
• Linking to Office documents
• Downloads and FTP

Site Management

• Deleting, moving and renaming pages
• Removing and renaming a web
• Using Reports to optimise your site
• Fixing a broken link
• Bandwidth issues
• Management aids
• Disk-based and Server-based webs
• Preserving HTML

Advanced Authoring

• Using Expression Web for Web authoring vs ASCII editors
• Open standards and proprietary extensions
• Authoring Issues
• Dynamic HTML Behaviours
• Advanced authoring features
• External and internal sites

Planning a Web Site

• Considerations before starting the design and implementation of a new website