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: Microsoft Expression
This is Expression Web 3
Jul. 10, 2009
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Expression Web 3 is now available for trial download directly from Microsoft. Click here to join in on the fun! It’s no secret that I’ve been playing around with various pre-beta and beta versions of version three of Microsoft Expression … Continue reading
Get Microsoft Expression Products 50% off for the Holidays!
Dec. 23, 2008
Just before the Holidays this dropped into my inbox. It’s a great deal made even better by the fact that the Microsoft Expression line is already competitively priced. Add to that the great review Expression Web 2 got form PCMag.com … 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
Expression Media Encoder Woes
Aug. 25, 2007
To put videos in a Silverlight application you have to use Microsoft Expression Media Encoder. This program has great potential but there is one annoying little problem that drives me crazy: It’s damn near impossible to get an export to … 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
Silverlight Posting Issues – Solved
Aug. 8, 2007
I encountered some weird problems trying to post Silverligth content in my blog and I can’t find anyone outside of blogs.msdn.com who have done it. My problem seems to arise from a combination of complicated scripts from Microsoft and bad … 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
Posting a Silverlight Application – Major Headache
Aug. 6, 2007
As I promised I’ve made an in-depth video tutorial on how I created the iZufall.com website using Microsoft Expression Design. The video itself was easy enough to make but I spent several hours today trying to conform it to the … 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
Microsoft listens – and the future looks bright(er)
Jul. 27, 2007
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 … Continue reading