In practical terms that means you can leave all your favourite panels on the workspace without having them take up tons of room in the process.
In response to complaints and suggestions to do something about the task panes, the dev team introduced a simple AutoHide feature that lets you collapse the panels (they’re not called “task panes” anymore) to the sides from where you can open them by hovering over their names. As a result I kept turning the task panes on and off all the time – a process that was a real time waster. And in Expression Web 1 and 2 even with a widescreen monitor the task panes ate up a lot of real estate. But this doesn’t work when I’m on my laptop (which is where I’m at most of the time these days). To curb my frustrations I prefer to work on a dual-monitor setup where I can stash all the tools and task panes on one monitor and leave the application on the other. One of the things that really irks me with design applications in general is all these toolbars and task panes that take up valuable screen space. Not to mention that to me at least it is much easier on the eye (I tend to do a lot of design work in the dark). It also visually separates the new application from those of the past and signals a new beginning of sorts. This dark flat-tastic look has already been used in Expression Design and Expression Blend and I think it is a welcome change that not only links Expression Web to it’s application siblings. The new look makes me think of new media applications like TweetDeck and DestroyTwitter and there is little doubt in my mind that much of the inspiration was taken from what I want to refer to as the post-web2.0 look.Īs you can see in the graphic at the top of this article the new look is very clean and sharp and makes icons, toolbars and panels pop out. The interface is also a lot darker than the prior ones with a dark gray being the predominant colour. The application looks very different from its two prior iterations in that the team has moved away from the classic fake 3D/embossed look to a 2D/3D inspired look with flat surfaces and drop-shadows. The first thing you’ll notice (apart from the new logo in the splash page of course) when opening Expression Web 3 is the new UI skin. So, without further ado, here is a quick rundown of the new features, the new appearance and my innitial thoughts on the new member of the Expression Web family. I just got the all clear from the development team to talk about the application publicly and share some screenshots of what you can expect when it goes public in the next couple of months. It’s no secret that I’ve been playing around with various pre-beta and beta versions of version three of Microsoft Expression Web for the last few months, all in preparation for the release of my new book Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web 3 in 24 Hours which is available for pre-order from right now (even though it’s not finished yet!) So for all this time I’ve had to keep my mouth shut about my new toy and what it can do.
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Expression Web 3 is now available for trial download directly from Microsoft.
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