Jul 30
Zufall is Live! First project using only Microsoft Expression Suite is on line
When I promised Microsoft I was going to use their new Expression Suite exclusively when designing my next project I wasn’t really sure what I was getting myself into. A colleague put it quite bluntly: “Are you a masochist?” I don’t think so and after finishing the Zufall project I have to say my early [...]
Jul 27
Microsoft listens – and the future looks bright(er)
I’ve been swamped trying to finish the Zufall project and the final project launch is only days away (Sunday to be exact) so I haven’t really had time to post my anything here in a while. But that’s going to change!
Qixing from Microsoft took the time to meet with me today and go over [...]
Jul 16
Color Picker / Dropper Issues Resolved, Kinda
NOTE: I’m going to start saying Color Dropper instead of Color Picker.
After the email I got from Dan at Microsoft I went back to retest the color dropper issue I found yesterday. Here are my results:
Dan told me that while the color dropper in the normal tools panel is an “object colour picker” the one [...]
Jul 16
Corrections, Corrections, Corrections (even a genious makes mistakes)
Last week I posted an article where I complained about a few things in Expression Design. Some of my claims were questioned by Microsoft and I’ve found that on one count I was actually wrong (well, sort of wrong anyway). I’m a stickler for details and I think it’s important that everything said here is [...]
Jul 16
Expression Web – CSS Heaven (sort of anyway)
I’m using a style sheet (CSS) at the bottom of the Zufall site to make it easy for the owners to update once it’s done. I’ve used CSS in the past with varying degrees of luck / frustration due to the somewhat tricky cross referencing you have to do: When you have a separate CSS [...]
