Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: EXPLORING MICROSOFT EXPRESSION STUDIO -- Chapter 1 Introducing Microsoft Expression Studio -- What Is Expression Studio? -- Bringing Consistency to Digital Communication -- What's the Concept Behind Expression Studio? -- Considering the Adobe Factor -- Moving Up to Expression Web from FrontPage -- Providing Professional Drawing Tools: Expression Design -- Creating Complex Web Experiences: Expression Blend -- Managing Digital Assets: Media and Media Encoder -- Exploring New Features -- Support for Web and Other Standards -- Examples of What You Can Do with Studio -- Chapter 2 Working in the Expression Studio Environment -- Exploring Expression Studio's User Interfaces -- Starting New Projects -- Examining Common Elements -- Working with Objects -- Customizing the Interface -- PART II: STANDARDS-BASED DESIGN WITH EXPRESSION WEB -- Chapter 3 Formatting Basic Web Site Content -- Working with Web Page Code -- Editing and Saving Web Pages -- Saving Your Web Page -- Naming Your Web Page -- Working with the Folder List Task Pane -- Pasting Text -- Entering and Formatting Text -- Choosing Paragraph Styles -- Checking Your Text -- Working with Web Site Code -- Closing Your Page -- Chapter 4 Giving Your Web Site a Look and Feel -- Adding Web Page Must-Haves -- Navigational Elements -- Layout Options -- Working with Images -- Chapter 5 Managing Your Site with CSS -- Understanding CSS -- Studying CSS in Code View -- Exploring the CSS Task Panes and Toolbars -- Creating a Style Sheet -- Attaching an Existing Style Sheet -- Choosing Attachment Options -- Detaching Style Sheets -- Using Code IntelliSense with CSS -- Running CSS Reports -- Using Web's Positioning Tools -- Working with Dynamic Web Templates -- Chapter 6 Making Your Site Dynamic and Interactive -- Creating Interactive Forms -- Adding Behaviors.

Adding Multimedia and Other Interactive Content -- Introducing ASP.NET -- Retrieving Data with ASP.NET -- Chapter 7 Publishing and Updating Your Web Site -- Finding a Web Host -- Previewing Your Pages -- Testing with Multiple Browsers -- Configuring File Transfers -- Synchronizing Local and Remote Sites -- Controlling Access to Your Web Documents -- Analyzing Web Traffic -- PART III: PROFESSIONAL GRAPHICS WITH EXPRESSION DESIGN -- Chapter 8 Getting Started with Design -- Comparing Design and Its Competitors -- Understanding Digital Images -- Managing Files -- Working with Design's Tools -- Working with Acquired Images -- Chapter 9 Creating and Manipulating Images -- Drawing Your Own Graphics -- Working with Layers -- Chapter 10 Working with Text -- Creating Text -- Basic Formatting -- Fancy Formatting -- Forming Type to Paths -- Chapter 11 Gradients, Transformations, and Live Effects -- Working with Gradients -- Applying Live Effects -- Transforming Objects -- Chapter 12 Optimizing Images for Publication -- Locking Images -- Distributing Objects -- Adding Crop Marks -- Observing Best Practices -- Outputting Images -- PART IV: CREATING USER EXPERIENCES WITH EXPRESSION BLEND -- Chapter 13 Introducing Expression Blend -- What Is Expression Blend? -- Windows Presentation Foundation -- Silverlight -- Exploring the Blend Workspace -- Looking Through the Toolbox -- Switching Workspaces -- Changing Workspace Magnification -- Chapter 14 Managing Projects -- Building an Expression Blend Project -- Changing Views -- Understanding Interaction Panel -- Sharing Projects -- Examples of Blend Presentations -- Chapter 15 Putting Together Presentations with Blend -- Assembling Resources -- Choosing Layout Controls -- Transformations -- Chapter 16 Adding User Controls and Other Content -- Working with User Controls -- Customizing Controls.

Creating a Custom UserControl -- Importing Multimedia Content -- Importing Graphics and Other Images -- Making Your Presentation Interactive -- Working with Data -- PART V: MANAGING YOUR IMAGE FILES WITH EXPRESSION MEDIA -- Chapter 17 Organizing Your Image Files -- What Is Expression Media? -- Getting Organized with the Organizer -- Importing Image Files -- Annotating as You Import -- Assigning Keywords -- Archives -- Chapter 18 Editing Images with Expression Media -- Touring Media's Editing Tools -- Working with the Image Editor -- Viewing Images in Light Table -- Changing Video Compression and Format -- Exporting to Adobe Photoshop -- Chapter 19 Creating Presentations with Expression Media -- Presenting Your Images -- Saving a Catalog as a Text File -- Creating an XML File -- Creating Slide Shows -- Creating Web Galleries -- Using Presentation Templates -- Creating Custom Web Galleries -- PART VI: APPENDICES -- Appendix A: Other Expression Studio Components -- Media Reader -- Expression Encoder -- Visual Studio -- Silverlight -- Silverlight Streaming -- Appendix B: Expression Studio Resources on the Web -- Microsoft Resources -- Discussion Groups -- Third-Party Blogs and Resources -- Tutorials -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.