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 Web
My book is finally here!
Oct. 1, 2008
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So I’m sitting in my couch tweaking the new web site I’ve created to supplment my upcoming book when the phone rings. FedEx is downstairs with something for me. When I get down to the lobby the guy is standing … Continue reading
Previewing Silverlight Applications in Your Browser With Expression Development Server
Aug. 3, 2008
If you’ve tried placing a Silverlight application in a HTML page in Expression Web 2 (or any other web authoring application for that matter) and previewing it in your browser you know it doesn’t work. Here is a small exerpt … Continue reading
How Expression Web 2 Creates CSS
Jun. 24, 2008
Anna Ullrich just published an excellent article called Who’s Editing Your CSS? explaining how Expression Web 2 handles CSS and why you can trust the program to spit out proper non-bloated code. If you’ve watched my webcast or read any … Continue reading
The Cat’s Out of the Bag: I’m Writing a Book!
Jun. 12, 2008
I guess it’s time to announce the worst kept secret of the century: I’m writing a book about Expression Web 2. More specifically it’s called Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web 2 in 24 Hours and it is scheduled for … Continue reading
Expression Web 2 Webcast June 5th – What do you want to know?
May. 29, 2008
Building Compelling Websites on the Microsoft Platform I’m doing an Innovation Briefing Webcast about Expression Web 2 for Microsoft this coming Thursday at 11am Pacific Time. Hit the link below to sign up to join in. I don’t know if … Continue reading
Speaking at Vancouver Microsoft Innovation Briefing
May. 9, 2008
Paul from Microsoft approached me a while back about doing a one hour presentation on my work with Expression Web. The session now has a name: “Expression® Web — the powerful, new, professional web editing tool” and it will take … Continue reading
Center a Page Horizontally Using CSS – An Expansion
Mar. 22, 2008
This is an expansion to Anna Ullrich’s tutorial Center a page (horizontally) by using CSS which can be found on her blog. I’m picking up where she left off, so if you are confused about where we are when we … Continue reading
Expression Web 2 Beta Bug Report
Mar. 17, 2008
I’ve been working with Expression Web 2 Beta for two weeks now and I’ve found it to be a vast improvement from the first release. I’ll get back to that in a later post but right now I want to … Continue reading
Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor for Expression Web – Start things right
Mar. 15, 2008
I always say that unless you start things right, you’re going to run into problems somewhere down the line. Nowhere is that more true than in building websites, especially if you venture into the realm of standards based scripting. Fortunately … Continue reading