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
WordPress as CMS – The Project
Mar. 12, 2008
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I’ve been talking about this for a while now and it’s time I got a little more specific. It is my contention that with some small tweaks, WordPress can be used as an excellent Content Management System (CMS) and used … Continue reading
Designing a WordPress Blog Theme Using Expression Web
Mar. 3, 2008
I’ve been working with Expression Web for about 6 months now and I’ve found that above all other things, what sets this program apart from the competition is it’s handling of CSS. More specifically how easy it is to not … Continue reading
Selected Pages – an answer for Beal
Jan. 11, 2008
In December Beal asked a question in response to my piece on the Natures Carpet site: How did you make the current page appear selected? I used the include function (leftover from Frontpage) because I didn’t want to make a … 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
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
Expression Web – CSS Heaven (sort of anyway)
Jul. 16, 2007
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 … Continue reading
Expression Web – What? A Bug Already?
Jun. 26, 2007
Before starting with the Zufall project I decided I’d revamp the Pink & Yellow Media Blog and move it from Blogger to our own server. Having had great success with WordPress on both AndNowYouKnow.net and Dabbler.ca I decided to relaunch … Continue reading