Special Edition Using Microsoft Expression Web [With CDROM]

by Jim Cheshire

Written by Jim Cheshire, this is a guide on creating and managing web sites using the new Microsoft Office Expressions Web Designer 2007. Troubleshooting sections included in each chapter illustrated... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789736055
• ISBN13: 9780789736055
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Que
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Excellent resource

I've had this book for several months now and just had to comment that it is the ONE resource with all the information I need. Mr. Cheshire certainly knows what he's talking about. The step by step examples really helped me get through some difficult tasks.

Excellent Book!

This book is very well written and composed. The beginning of the book sums up the basics, letting you know what will be covered. From then on, each chapter is full of nearly all of the information you need in order to complete each individual task. The chapters are neat, organized, and very precise. Each chapter tells you what it is about, then tells you how to do it. I bought this book (Special Edition Using Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Special Edition Using)) the same day that I bought Microsoft Expression Web 2, and it helped me tremendously. (I bought the program -and- the book on Tuesday) If you are reading this and contemplating buying this book over any other, my vote is that you buy this book. Like I said, it is clear and direct, and explains everything you need to know. What little bit of information that isn't covered is some of the extremely basic concepts that a quick google search will resolve. Hopefully this review has been helpful... Again, 2 thumbs up to this book! -Randal

Brilliant!

I've used FrontPage since its first release and never came close to learning all it could do. The thought of moving into Expression Web was scary, and after installing it and looking at a blank site, I thought I'd have a heart attack. Last night I bought this book, and the veil lifted. I've since imported a site, followed the book, and am now on Chapter 8 (reading front to back). This time I am not going to "just get by" because the book is so clear that I WANT to learn more. My only regret is that Jim Cheshire didn't write a book on the rest of the Expression Suite of tools, because then I would have a chance at ramping far more quickly.

Great book and even better support

When was the last time you emailed the author of a book and he/she replied in five minutes? Mega-kudos to Jim Cheshire--not only for a well-written, thorough examination of Microsoft Expression, but also for caring enough about the end-user to [quickly] reply to a request for clarification on an exercise in the book. That alone is worth twice what I paid. If you have Microsoft Expression, you need this book.

As Good, As Complete a Book as You'll Find

The popular web design tool from Microsoft named FrontPage was first developed by a software company named Vermeer. Microsoft bought the company, and down through the years has updated, revised, and greatly expanded FrontPage to make it an ever more powerful tool. Having said that, FrontPage remained a tool of the casual web developer, not the professional. It simply had too many structural problems to be useful at a professional level. Now Microsoft has done a basic structural re-write of FrontPage, fixing problems, making the resulting web pages standards compliant, supporting the new standards, and incorporating Microsoft's new expanded operating system environment ASP.NET.2.0. The result is an entirely new package that builds on the FrontPage concepts and takes them to a new level. Jim Cheshire maintains the JimcoSoftware website which is the best known source of add-ins for FrontPage. He has worked in the FrontPage team at Microsoft, and now works in the ASP.NET team. He has been a FrontPage fan for many years and has written this book from the view of one who completely understands his subject but still knows how to inform the beginner of what's going on. This is as good, as complete, a book on 'Expression Web' as you will ever find.