Design Is Philosophy
Tuturials, thoughts, ideas and information about web design and digital media by Morten Rand-Hendriksen, designer, developer, digital media expert, information philosopher, speaker and author of the Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web in 24 Hours series (version 2, 3 and 4), Lynda.com's WordPress 3.0 Essential Training course and Microsoft Expression Web 4 LiveLessons and creative director of Pink & Yellow Media - a Vancouver based digital media company.
Category Archives: Expression Design
Expression Design 2 Beta – HUGE Improvements
Mar. 14, 2008
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I’ve had a chance to play around with Expression Studio 2 Beta for about a week now and I can tell you there are some huge improvements in the new releases. Today I’m going to limit my scope to Expression … Continue reading
NaturesCarpet.com – 2nd Expression project live to the world
Nov. 15, 2007
Finally, after weeks of designs and redesigns my second Expression-only project went live to the world last week. The site – for Vancouver based carpet retailer Colin Campbell & Sons’ new line called Nature’s Carpet – was entirely designed and … Continue reading
Video Tutorial: Editing and Uploading the Zufall Side Buttons
Aug. 25, 2007
Click here for a full screen version of this video. Here (finally) is my second video in the Zufall series. It was meant to be a walk-through of the implementation process but then I ran across a small problem and … Continue reading
iZufall Project – From Concept to Design using Expression Design
Aug. 6, 2007
It took way too long but now it’s here: My first video tutorial covering the overall design process of the iZufall.com website using Microsoft Expression Design. In the video I cover the overall design idea, how to import vectorized graphics … Continue reading
Zufall is Live! First project using only Microsoft Expression Suite is on line
Jul. 30, 2007
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 … Continue reading
Color Picker / Dropper Issues Resolved, Kinda
Jul. 16, 2007
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 … Continue reading
Corrections, Corrections, Corrections (even a genious makes mistakes)
Jul. 16, 2007
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). … Continue reading
Color Picker Issues – Possible Explanations
Jul. 16, 2007
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 … Continue reading
Color Picker Issues
Jul. 15, 2007
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 … Continue reading
Expression Design follow up – Answering questions from Microsoft
Jul. 12, 2007
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 … Continue reading