Links
MVP Sites
Sites by current or former MVPs
Any Expression by
Tina Clarke
Spider Web Woman Designs by Kathleen Anderson
Genealogy
Computer Tips and Tutorials by Patricia Geary
Design is
Philosophy by Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Blogs
These are now quite old but still worth looking at.
Expression Web Team
Blog
The Expression
Designers Blog Covers all the Expression products
Discussion Groups, Lists and Newsgroups
The MS Expression Forum
By Expression Web Designer
Any
Expression Ezine on Yahoo
Script Junkie - A Microsoft MSDN resource for serious web development
Add-Ins, Components etc
Add-In Compatability
| xWeb Version |
V1 |
V2 |
V3 SP1 |
V4 |
Free |
| Ajatix Advanced CSS Drop Down Menu |
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| Ajatix Pure CSS Drop Down Menu |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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| Ajatix Lightbox |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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| Ajatix Image/Banner Rotator |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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| FP Bot Macro |
x |
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x |
| Eric Mayers CSS Sculptor |
x |
x |
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| Jimco Spawn |
x |
x |
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| CSSMenuTools Lightbox Advancer |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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| CSSMenuTools Horizontal Menu Advancer |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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| CSSMenuTools Vertical Menu Advancer |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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| CSSMenuTools Accordion Menu |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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| MS Schema Add-In |
x |
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x |
| Vista Buttons Add-In |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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| V4 Specific Add-Ins |
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| AddFeed - add RSS feeds to a page |
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| Attach-JS - adds a javascript file ref to a page |
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x |
| Close All - close all open pages with a click |
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x |
| Copyright Notice - auto-updating copyright |
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x |
x |
| HTML5 Placeholder |
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x |
x |
| Sub/Sup Text - convert text to sub/sup |
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x |
x |
| WinPaste - paste clean html from MS Word |
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x |
x |
| WinPop - add accessible pop-up windows |
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| Custom Toolbars for xWeb |
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| Extensibility Tester: test JavaScript live |
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x |
x |
| HTML5 Schema add-in |
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x |
x |
| Insert a Bing Map |
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x |
x |
| Insert a You Tube Video |
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| SlapShot - view a live preview of pages |
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Ajatix CSS Drop Down Menu - Integrated CSS menu generator. The new version
supports EW V1, V2, V3SP1 and V4
FP Bot Macro -
puts the Database Results Wizard and Photo Gallery back into EW
Vista Buttons Add-In -
creates buttons and menus with the Vista look
EW Specific Tools
Contact Form
Generator for Expression Web - Free on-line tool by CTRFX that generates an
aspx contact form.
EW Cleaner - From MVP Steve Easton.
Cleans out the web cache and temp files that can slow EW down; plus
other functions.
EW
Cleaner for xWeb V4
EW
Cleaner for xWeb V3
FP Cleaner for xWeb V1 and V2 (Plus Frontpage and Sharepoint
Designer)
Templates and Tools
Need a template? See
this Open Source site
OSWD.org
Free CSS Templates
freeCSStemplates.org
CSS Templates and layout tools, see the CSS
links page
CSS
Menu Generator, Sitemap Generator, Template Generator and more. The Menu
Generator produces pure CSS menus without any JavaScript that are compatible
with FF, Opera, Safari, Chrome and IE6 upwards.
PHP Form Script Generator - From MVP James Huggins
FavIcon
Generator from Dynamic Drive
FavIcon Generator
from HtmlKit, includes more sizes
Accessibility Tools and Wizards A good collection, use them as they are or
modify the results. Useful learning tool.
Create Accessible pop-up windows
One of the above tools (But see the WinPop Add-In above if you use xWeb V4).
URL Encode
Generator - if a url has spaces or special characters it will need to be URL
Encoded before it will work in a browser. You can do it by hand but this tool is
a lot easier.
HTML
Character Entity Encoding - get the ©'s etc right using this
table
Or encode a block of text using this tool.
(Useful for displaying code on a page).
Cross
Browser Multipage Photo Gallery in CSS - Stu Nichols has a photo gallery
using just CSS, that validates.
Visual Lighbox a free tool to create photo albums based on the Lightbox
script in a few clicks without any coding.
Need to convert code from C# to VB or vice versa? See this
Toolbox on DeveloperFusion
JavaScript Compression can speed up page load times. See
JS Minifier
Accessibility Tools and Links
W3C
List of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
Not exhaustive but a useful list nevertheless.
Access Keys
checks websites and offers awards based on how easy to use they are based on
four categories of criteria:
1) HTML attributes
2) Multimedia
3) Navigation and Structure
4) Usability
They have a number of tools that makes the assessments, including:
AccessColor - checks the colour difference and colour brightness values for
a site
On-Line References
SitePoint now has comprehensive on-line references for
CSS, JavaScript and HTML.
These are excellent searchable resources that cover both basic and in-depth
detail of the subject.
http://reference.sitepoint.com/
SSW Rules and Standards
An interesting and useful list of rules and standards for lots of topics from
'Rules for Happy Clients' to 'Rules for better Website Graphics'.
The HTML
Float
A great tool that demonstrates the effects of 'float' and 'clear' in HTML in
real time as they are altered on the page.