Expression Web Breakdown

December 19th, 2007 – 2:23 pm
Tagged as: Content Master

Well after last week’s course, everyone felt it was time to relax. Expression was the only project on for the team. I’ve forgotten to mention that the team has been reduced by a few people, given that they have been offered new job roles at different companies.

Head counting – there are now nine of us. This happened some way back in October/November. But it goes without mentioning that the less of us there were, the more pressure there was to complete work! And there were quite some hard times managing work as a result of this, especially within the MSL domain.

I managed to get through quite a few features of xWeb, listing down about what they do and mentally recording in my mind about how to perform them. However, I also thought it would be necessary to get hands on with the product, so commenced work on a potential Web site, which may help to demonstrate the CSS features of this software.

Work was slow, but getting there. It was approaching the end of another year.

But with xWeb, there is one feature that I wanted to mention just so I always come back to reading this and think “Yeah, what was the point of that?” It was the PSD import option.

Apparently and in performing the relevant actions, it was possible to import a Photoshop PSD and then select the layers you wanted to be visible on that particular PSD design, click import and the image will sit on the screen in design view. Yes it’s a nice feature, as you get to look at the content of a PSD and choose the layers before importing to the stage.

But I did pose question to myself:

So, what’s stopping me editing in Photoshop, where I have more control over the image, and then Save As a PNG or JPEG file?

Basically what I was trying to figure out was the difference between using Photoshop and Expression Web. I suppose if the user didn’t have Photoshop, then it would be useful. But I’d have thought a sophisticated team like Microsoft may allow for those particular layers you select in xWeb, to become, say, DIV tags or similar. This would give far more control over a web site!

Oh well, maybe they’ll add changes later.

Next week is Christmas holidays. Though I don’t celebrate Chrismas – I celebrate the holidays! Woohoo!

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