After my post on the color picker issue last night I got an email from Dan at Microsoft with a possible explanation:
I have a couple of questions that might help narrow down the issue:
- Are you using the “Color eyedropper” on the color picker? This one picks the screen color. There is another “Color dropper” [...]

The color picker in Expression Design is so inaccurate it’s pretty much useless!
Now that I got your attention let me explain: I was working on the Zufall project when I discovered that the colours of several of my elements didn’t match. I found this to be very odd as I had made a sort of [...]

So I wake up this morning to discover that Microsoft has taken an interest in my blog (undoubtedly because I posted this blog on one of their forums). Anyway, they responded with some pointers, questions and disagreements. I realized that some of what I had said required some backing up in the form of actual [...]

I don’t know if my way is the right way but when I design sites I always start with the design itself. In the past I’ve used a combination of Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia (now Adobe) Fireworks to do this but Expression Design seemed to be a good combination of both so I decided to [...]