9/15 Expression Web Worshop

On 9/15 we are resuming the workshop for the fall. We'll start by briefly reviewing the site we built for PC Renew & discuss how to use Photoshop to prepare pictures for the web. Another subject will be loading from & saving the site to a USB drive which will demonstrate how the Publishing feature works. The EW software uses the Publishing feature to load a site from a USB drive.

Also, to be noted is that we have obtained the latest update so we will soon be running EW 4.0. Hopefully, this will make site building even easier. Then I will be proposing that this "semester," we build a site from scratch - not use templates. But this is just a starting point for discussion as to how we want to proceed.

A Date in History - June 30, 2010

The site is finally live! Go to http://www.wpcug.org - then click on the PC Renew button on the left.

It's worth celebrating since we set out on this journey back in September & slowly we completed it.

Thanks for everyones contribution.

Some surprises: Expression Web has no automated way to enter keywords. I had to insert html code manually. Also, the first PC Renew website had seven pictures that were each 600 pixels wide, all on one page & it was obvious that the page took too long to load. A fix was to make these about 400 pixels wide & link them to the larger picture on it's own page & this works well.

There was also a need to improve picture quality using Photoshop & to use its "Prepare for the web" feature which I will demonstrate in September.