Complete
Design for the
Mobile^ Web
Some background and resources about designing for
the COMPLETE web. Updated February 2015
MS Resources for EW
Prerequisites for Using Microsoft Expression Web
An
article giving some detail if you're new to Expression Web
ExpressionIQ
A blog provided by MS Technical authors "dedicated to improving the quality
and usability of the documentation for the Microsoft Expression family of
products." Blog
Twitter Feed
scriptjunkie{}
A Microsoft MSDN resource for
serious web development
Expression Web Support Team
The team created a blog with solutions to installation issues
plus other hints. It's well tagged to help you find relevant content. xweb
support blog
Moving from FrontPage to Expression Web?
There are now lots of resources to help you do this.
Start here:
The Mobile Web
A great new resource from SitePoint.
BuildMolbile.com
Has sections on developing responsive sites for use on mobiles, plus
devloping apps for the three main platforms.
Browser Issues
IE10 - Be Prepared
If you are running ASP.Net sites there's an important server update that you need to check for so that they work with IE10.
There's also a tweak you may need to make for previewing sites on IE10 from
within EW.
IE10 on Windows Phone 8 also has an issue with media queries.
More details on these.
asp:menu in IE8 The asp:menu control in ASP.Net 2 will not display
in IE8. There are two solutions. 1) Force the browser into IE7 compatibility
mode or
the better solution here which fixes the problem correctly.
IE
Tester is a free web browser that allows you to have the rendering and
JavaScript engines of IE10, IE9, IE8, IE7, IE6 and IE5 on Windows XP, Vista, 7
and 8, as well as
the installed version. It's a beta release so has bugs but is usable
and free.
MS VPC Images for running old (or newer) versions of IE. If the tester above
gives you problems or you'd prefer to run genuine versions see the
MS VPC IMages
ASP.Net Menus in Safari
Browser Extensions for web development.
FireFox-like search in IE Find-as-you-type
FireFox loading very slowly when you preview a page on localhost? See this
blog entry from Dan Wahlin
IIS Issues
Introductory Video on setting up IIS7. An excellent tutorial showing how to
set sites up to use IIS
IIS7 Resources
HTML Emails
Do you create HTML emails? If so you need to be aware of how
Outlook 2007 renders them
An excellent article on
SitePoint about creating HTML emails
Sitemaps
Sitemaps - The standard XML sitemap format gives a common
protocol for search engine auto-discovery. See
www.sitemaps.org
for a good FAQ and details of the protocol and format.
On-line sitemap creation