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Because you have opened this book and started reading the Introduction, I assume that you
are interested in learning how to create websites using Microsoft Expression Web 4. If so, I
congratulate you: By choosing this application as your platform, you are already well on
your way to creating functional and well-designed sites based on web standards. In other
words, unlike me, you are putting the proverbial horse before the cart and starting at the
beginning rather than learning things the hard way.
Expression Web 4 is the fourth version of a web design and development platform that sees
Microsoft take a whole new approach to the concept of web standards. The application you
work with throughout this book produces standards-based websites right out of the box without
requiring any tweaking or custom coding. In fact, using Expression Web 4, you can create
advanced standards-based websites with lots of fancy interactive features without ever
writing a line of code. And with that, the threshold for learning, understanding, and creating
websites that look and behave the same across all browsers and platforms is lowered to a
level anyone can manage.
This book is the fourth revision of my first book, Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web
2 in 24 Hours. Well, actually, it’s an update of rather than a revision of the third edition,
Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web 4 in 24 Hours. This new edition covers the many
enhancements introduced by the Service Pack 2 update, including a new Code Snippets
panel and full support for HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery among other things. |
