The "regulars" here, by and large, came to EW with years of experience under our belts, so we've never really found the need to look into books aimed at folks coming from FP. It's nice to have someone who's been in the same situation come through with recmmendations for 'HTML, XHTML, & CSS all in one for Dummies' (good basic web building information with lots of examples) 'CSS the definitive guide' Eric Meyer, O'ReillyĤ. 'Expression Web 4 in Depth' Jim Cheshire, QUEģ. Sources I have that I continually go back to (with lots of paper bookmarks in them!) include:ġ. This forum has archives that are great, I found 2 answers today there and, always, great advice from the participants here-thank you all. Kathleen Anderson's site mentions a number of references I You need to learn basic web building first/along the way. System and build by drag and drop or actually write in webpage language-much more enjoyable. It is not a WSYWYG program you need to decide whether to go to a content management EW4 (great program) seemed the best and is.
As a rank amateur migrating from FP2003 (which I liked) I looked for a program to use. It is common courtesy to recognize those who have helped you, and it also makes it easier for visitors to find the resolution later.ĮW4 is worth "bothering" with. Please remember to "Mark as Answer" the responses that resolved your issue. Give that one a look and see what you think. Web 4 Step by Step," but can't speak from personal experience.
I can say that we have had good reports from users of Chris Leeds' "Expression The core group of contributors here are developers with long experience, and we have not, by and large, needed nor wanted a beginner's book. Was over a decade ago, I'd say that EW's got a lot of life left in it, wouldn't you? I should also point out that even though I own a fully-licensed copy of Dreamweaver CS6, EW4 is still my principal development environment.Īs for your first question, don't know. Given that the last major revisions to those standards, HTML 4.01 and CSS 2.1,
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Think about it-how long did you hang on to FrontPage after it was discontinued? Furthermore, EW has the advantage that, unlike FrontPage, it does not depend upon obsolete, proprietary technology (FrontPage ServerĮxtensions), and does produce, by default, fully standards-compliant, cross-browser compatible markup, and the last version brought EW up to full support of both HTML5 and CSS3.