Microsoft Expression Studio 2

Microsoft Expression Studio 2 Review

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Microsoft Expression Studio 2 Feature

• Expression Design 2 lets you create assets and use them with Expression Blend 2 to design user interaction for a new wave of expressive Windows applications
• Adhere to today's Web standards using built-in support for XHTML, CSS, XML, and XSLT; design sites that work on any browser
• Use Expression Media Encoder 2 to enhance and publish rich video experiences for both Windows and Mac
• With support for more than 100 media formats, Expression Media 2 makes managing your digital universe a snap
• Expression Studio 2 brings design and development together--design elements like video, 3D models, and vector art are combined with full support for the latest Microsoft development tools and platforms

Your ideas deserve room to grow. Microsoft Expression Studio 2 sets your creativity free, giving you a suite of tools for designing next-generation applications. From standards-based Web and rich applications designed for the web or desktop to smart digital asset management, you'll see your vision unfoldÉwith style.

Use Expression Web to create modern, standards-based sites which deliver superior quality on the Web.

Expression Design lets you build compelling elements for both Web and desktop application user interfaces.

From Conceptual to Sensational
When inspiration strikes, you need the right professional tools to turn your vision into a reality. Microsoft Expression Studio 2 opens up a new world of creative possibility. With six complete products--Microsoft Expression Design 2, Microsoft Expression Blend 2, Microsoft Expression Web 2, Microsoft Expression Media 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder 2, and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition--designers and developers can deliver richer, deeper experiences to customers.

Extend Your Vision to the Desktop
It all starts with an idea, whether you work with sketches or go straight to the computer. With innovative vector-drawing tools, non-destructive effects, and the power of XAML (Zam-al), Expression Design lets you create assets and use them with Expression Blend to design user interaction for a new wave of expressive Windows applications. Finally, you can combine the best of the Web with the full power of the desktop. Your vision remains uncompromised from concept to completion.

Create Sophisticated Sites That Play Well With Others
Adhere to today's Web standards using built-in support for XHTML, CSS, XML, and XSLT. Thanks to Expression Web, it's easier than ever to design sites that work--on any browser. Your sites will render better, be more relevant to search engine indexing, and, ultimately, reach more customers through enhanced accessibility.

Deliver Rich Web Experiences
Light up your Web site with Microsoft Silverlight by using Expression Media Encoder 2 to enhance and publish rich video experiences for both Windows and Mac. And once an asset, always an asset. Reuse elements created in Expression Design to deliver rich Web experiences.

Manage Media Assets With Ease
Organized digital assets give you more freedom to play. With support for more than 100 media formats, Expression Media makes managing your digital universe a snap. Wherever your files are stored, integrated search tools help you find them fast.

Expression Media is a professional asset management tool to visually catalog and organize all your digital assets for effortless retrieval and presentation.

Expression Encoder 2's approachable user interface means its never been easier for designers, editors and producers to generate gorgeous VC-1-encoded content for delivery via Silverlight to the web.

Expression Blend lets you create engaging, Web-connected, user experiences for Windows.

Corral the Power of Design + Dev
When you truly care about your end users' experience, you need to collaborate at every step in the development process. Expression Studio brings design and development together and proves that teamwork pays off. Design elements like video, 3D models, and vector art are combined with full support for the latest Microsoft development tools and platforms.

Work That Really Flows
With the right technology, you're free to focus on your work, instead of managing workflow. Use your talent to do what you do best--be it art direction, graphic design, UI design, or development. Expression Studio 2 ensures your team is working together throughout the design and development process. But when your users deem your product truly innovative, it's up to you to divvy up the credit.

A Complete Creative Toolbox
Expression Studio 2 offers you the features of all five powerful Expression products--plus Visual Studio Standard Edition 2008. From concept to completion, you'll have the tools you need to deliver deep, rich experiences to users' desktops and the Web.

• Microsoft Expression Web 2 gives you all the tools you need to produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites.
  
  Built-in support for today's Web standards, sophisticated CSS-based layout and formatting, and integration with either ASP.NET or PHP means you can design, develop, and maintain exceptional sites with a lot less time and effort.
  
  
• Think of Microsoft Expression Blend 2 as your virtual playground. Mix design elements such as video, vector art, high-quality text, animation, pixel images, and 3D content with a full toolbox of advanced controls and containers to create engaging, cinematic user interfaces.
  
  Explore the limits of UI design by combining the best of the Web and the power of the desktop with next-generation Silverlight and connected desktop applications.
  
  
• Microsoft Expression Design 2 is the perfect companion to Expression Blend. Leverage existing artwork, or use Design's intuitive and flexible drawing tools to quickly build sophisticated vector assets.
  
  Seamlessly transfer them via XAML to your Expression Blend projects knowing that their fidelity will be maintained throughout the entire designer-developer workflow.
  
  
• With support for more than 100 media formats, Microsoft Expression Media 2 makes managing your digital universe a snap. Wherever your files are stored and whomever you collaborate with you can browse, search, and annotate your digital files, even when your originals are offline.
  
  When it's time to deliver, Expression Media can export your assets in exactly the format and size your clients need.
  
  
• Expression Encoder 2's approachable user interface means its never been easier for designers, editors and producers to generate gorgeous VC-1-encoded content for delivery via Silverlight to the web.
  
  Add simple cuts, titles, pre-roll and post-roll advertising, captions, metadata and more to any clip. Use custom job presets to ensure a consistent user experience and media quality, clip after clip.

The complete range of Expression products in one box. Microsoft Expression Studio opens up a new world of creative possibility. Its professional design tools give you the freedom to make your vision real--whether you're designing standards-based Web sites, rich desktop experiences, or Silverlight content.


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Microsoft Expression Blend 2

Microsoft Expression Blend 2 Review

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Microsoft Expression Blend 2 Feature

• Create stunning web experiences with full-screen HD video, animated graphics, sound and interactivity
• Deliver better usability and user experiences that pack the power of Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 and incorporate both online and offline data capabilities
• Create compelling user interface designs that use a full spectrum of media types, including vector and pixel art, video, audio, text, 3D, and animation
• Add interactivity to your designs without writing code--fully customizable controls let you create design elements from simple graphical buttons to sophisticated custom views of data
• Harness the power of XAML the .NET Framework 3.5 and Silverlight to ensure the designs you create in Expression Blend 2 carry through to the final Microsoft Visual Studio project

Microsoft Expression Blend 2 is the professional design tool to create engaging web-connected experiences for Windows. With Microsoft Expression Blend 2, you can design next-generation content that targets the full reach of the web, utilizes the full power of the desktop or combine the best of both.

Expression Blend's interface maximizes space for your work. A dynamically filterable Properties panel helps you find what you are looking for instantly.

Composite your vector and bitmap artwork, video, audio and rich text. Or create custom vector elements using advanced gradients, alpha transparency, and sophisticated layout and snapping tools.

Add standard controls such as buttons, scroll bars, list boxes, menus, radio buttons, and checkboxes--or composite multiple control elements together to form compound controls.

Deliver highly usable and enjoyable user interfaces to your customers.

Design Ultimate Experiences

Create stunning web experiences
Deliver eye popping experiences with, full screen HD video, animated graphics, sound and interactivity through the combination of Expression Blend 2 and Silverlight.

Build compelling user experiences for Microsoft Windows
Deliver better usability and user experiences that pack the power of Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 and incorporate both online and offline data capabilities. Now your users can sync with the Web and take your applications virtually anywhere.

Create engaging multimedia user interfaces
Broaden the potential of your designs. Create compelling user interface designs that use a full spectrum of media types, including vector and pixel art, video, audio, text, 3D, and animation. Work within a rich, real-time design environment designed to shorten the distance between idea and execution.

Add interactivity to your designs--without writing code
Codeless interactivity is built into Expression Blend 2. Fully customizable controls let you create design elements from simple graphical buttons to sophisticated custom views of data. Link interface elements to each other or to live data. Simply drag and drop to add custom code or controls to your application.

Collaborate with confidence
Harness the power of XAML the .NET Framework 3.5 and Silverlight to ensure the designs you create in Expression Blend 2 carry through to the final Microsoft Visual Studio project. Your interaction design and layout can be used intact in the final product, so you keep creative control.

Tools for creativity
Composite vector and bitmap artwork, HD video, audio, text, and containers with sophisticated WYSIWYG design tools.

• Control animations with precision using onscreen motion path editing, vertex animation and inproved visual storyboard controls with Expression Blend 2.
• Split view allows you to view the design surface and XAML code at the same time, you can work seemlessly in either mode
• Produce high-quality typographic designs with Microsoft ClearType support, then easily embed all or part of any typeface.
• Customize the look and feel of controls without writing code. Define reusable custom styles or apply standard Microsoft Windows themes.
• Import 3D models; manipulate and animate in true 3D, using camera position, surface materials, z-space animation, and surface texture mapping.
• Silverlight 1.0 applications can be opened as a website allowing for improved workflow with Visual Studio 2008
• The built in Javascript editor allows you to add interactivity to your Silverlight web applications and avoid changing applications mid-flow

Codeless interactivity

• Bind your interface elements to each other, to user input, or to data from Web services and .NET objects so that your objects update dynamically and your application comes to life even before you write code.
• Design adaptive layouts using containers that automatically handle scaling and repositioning of content and controls.
• Advanced controls and layout functions--including ready-made grid splitters, ink canvases, treeviews, expanders, sliders, tab controls, and more--add robust functionality to your interface.

Efficient collaboration

• Make immediate creative decisions based on real-time previews of interface elements that are dynamically bound to external data sources.
• Incorporate design elements from Microsoft Expression Design 2, as well as other leading creative professional tools, using XAML exporters.
• Share projects with Visual Studio to add depth and polish to your application. Visual Studio enables debugging, Web services design, and enterprise application lifecycle management.
• Directly edit XAML code with colored syntax highlighting. Maintain quality and vision when converting your prototype files to final products because the Expression family and Visual Studio speak the same "language."
• Leverage existing external resources by importing and referencing .NET code libraries through simple drag-and-drop actions.

Deliver better experiences

• Deliver cinematic and compelling user experiences, both on the desktop and the web through the power of Silverlight and WPF

Technical Information:

Software Main Type	Development
Software Sub Type	Web Designing/Publishing
License Type	Complete Product
Manufacturer Part Number	PHJ-00545
License Pricing	Standard
Manufacturer Website Address	www.microsoft.com
Software Name	Expression Blend v.2.0 - Complete Product
System Requirements	Processor: Intel Pentium or AMD, 1 GHz Operating System: Windows Vista Windows XP with Service Pack 2 Hard Disk: 350 MB Memory: 512 MB RAM Other: Graphics processor that is DirectX 9-capable 1024 x 768 monitor resolution with 24-bit color
License Quantity	1 Workstation
Brand Name	Microsoft
Product Name	Expression Blend v.2.0
Product Type	Software
Distribution Media/Method	DVD-ROM
Package Type	Retail
Platform Support	PC

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Microsoft Office XP Professional [OLD VERSION]

Microsoft Office XP Professional [OLD VERSION] Review

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Microsoft Office XP Professional [OLD VERSION] Feature

• Includes Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access
• The Send for Review feature further streamlines the collaborative process by allowing the sender to view revisions made by multiple parties within the framework of the original document
• Microsoft's publicly pink-slipped office assistant
• Introduces several features that utilize the vast infosphere inhabited by the 21st-century desk jockey
• The task pane looks similar to Microsoft Internet Explorer's Explorer Bar

Microsoft Office XP's empowering document design tools, integration of voice recognition functionality, and impressive network- and Web-based sourcing capabilities should be enough to convince those interested in saving time and consolidating effort to take the leap.

In keeping with Microsoft's much-ballyhooed .NET strategy, Office XP introduces several features that utilize the vast infosphere inhabited by the 21st-century desk jockey. Smart tags beckon underneath recognized objects like misspellings or symbols, offering a stock quote here, a synonym there, or "Would anyone care to configure my auto-correction list?" The task pane looks similar to Microsoft Internet Explorer's Explorer Bar, and acts like an open tool chest pulled up alongside each application in the suite, providing readily configured searches for information or multimedia files. Putting up a team Web site that tracks projects and serves as an information hub requires only the use of one of the included templates, ready to be customized and uploaded to the server.

The Send for Review feature further streamlines the collaborative process by allowing the sender to view revisions made by multiple parties within the framework of the original document. Outlook now features a color-coded calendar and easier meeting management, along with instant messaging and variable e-mail account access. All user system errors can be tracked globally, and then network security settings modified remotely while anti-virus and debugging IT resources are diverted accordingly.

After firing up Microsoft Word, typing "Dear Somebody," and hitting the Enter key, we made a startling discovery. Up popped Clippy, Microsoft's publicly pink-slipped office assistant. Clippy might have aptly announced, "Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated," but instead predictably observed, "It looks like you're writing a letter." Once the groans of disbelief had subsided, we quickly right-clicked and banished Clippy to the silicon ether, presumably forever. --Dominic Johnson--This review refers to Office XP Standard Edition


Microsoft Office XP's empowering document design tools, integration of voice recognition functionality, and impressive network- and Web-based sourcing capabilities should be enough to convince those interested in saving time and consolidating effort to take the leap. In keeping with Microsoft's much-ballyhooed .NET strategy, Office XP introduces several features that utilize the vast infosphere inhabited by the 21st-century desk jockey. Smart tags beckon underneath recognized objects like misspellings or symbols, offering a stock quote here, a synonym there, or "Would anyone care to configure my auto-correction list?" The task pane looks similar to Microsoft Internet Explorer's Explorer Bar, and acts like an open tool chest pulled up alongside each application in the suite, providing readily configured searches for information or multimedia files. Putting up a team Web site that tracks projects and serves as an information hub requires only the use of one of the included templates, ready to be customized and uploaded to the server. The Send for Review feature further streamlines the collaborative process by allowing the sender to view revisions made by multiple parties within the framework of the original document. Outlook now features a color-coded calendar and easier meeting management, along with instant messaging and variable e-mail account access. All user system errors can be tracked globally, and then network security settings modified remotely while anti-virus and debugging IT resources are diverted accordingly.

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Microsoft Expression Encoder 2

Microsoft Expression Encoder 2 Review

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Microsoft Expression Encoder 2 Feature

• Encode a wide array of file-based media content, including QuickTime, AVI, MPEG and more using the designer friendly Expression-standard user interface
• Produce live webcasts with multiple live and file-based sources which can be mixed and switched in real-time for streaming and simultaneous archive
• Customize your media assets by adding pre-roll and post-roll advertising, animated watermarks, crop, scale, and more; include metadata and polish your content with chapter markers, event triggers and captions
• Deliver high quality VC-1 content wrapped in a Silverlight player template directly from Expression Encoder 2
• Take advantage of multi-core and multiprocessor optimized codecs to get the highest quality result in a hurry

Use Microsoft Expression Encoder to encode a wide array of file and live sources. Make basic edits. Enhance your media with animated watermarks, advertising and metadata. Encode quickly to the industry standard VC-1 codec. Pick a media player template and publish a rich interactive experience viewable with Microsoft Silverlight.

Robust file import support lets content creators add QuickTime, AVI, MPEG, WMV, and additional media formats into encoding projects.

Add videos as station identification, pre-roll advertisements, or post-roll credits to deliver content with context for your audience.

Windows Media Video and SMPTE VC-1 encoding guarantees that Expression Encoder will output the cleanest compressed content possible whether publishing to high definition optical disc, the web or handheld device.

All-in-one Encoding
Encode a wide array of file-based media content, including QuickTime, AVI, MPEG and more using the designer friendly Expression-standard user interface. Produce live webcasts with multiple live and file-based sources which can be mixed and switched in real-time for streaming and simultaneous archive. Use Expression Encoder 2 job presets to process batch files via the command line for repetitive encoding chores.

Richer Media Enhancement
Customize your media assets to match your brand or target your audience. Add pre-roll and post-roll advertising, animated watermarks, crop, scale, and more. Include metadata and polish your content with chapter markers, event triggers and captions.

Publish Perfect Experiences
Deliver high quality VC-1 content wrapped in a Silverlight player template directly from Expression Encoder 2. Make basic cuts to condense and correct clips. Use Intelligent Encoding to only encode the changes. Dial in custom encoding settings. Take advantage of multi-core and multiprocessor optimized codecs to get the highest quality result in a hurry.

All-in-one encoding

• Import AVI, QuickTime, MPEG, WMV. Formats with a proper DirectShow decoder are supported.
• Live encoding supports USB webcams and DV camcorders. Easily switch between live and file-based sources.
• Run batch encoding jobs from the command line using job presets that define each attribute of an encoding job.
• Search for media clips in Expression Media and send clips directly to Expression Encoder.

Richer Media Enhancement

• Add video clips before or after your main clip for advertising, disclaimers, and credits.
• Add still images, animations and video with transparency as watermarks to media using JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF, XAML and QuickTime.
• Customizable metadata fields for asset tracking.
• Author chapter markers for Silverlight templates.
• Add captions to videos using SAMI or DFXP.
• Add markers to trigger events using JavaScript.
• Trim, crop, de-interlace and scale video clips.

Publish Perfect Experiences

• Encode videos to WMV (VC-1) Advanced, Main, and Simple Profiles.
• Make simple cuts to video clips to remove unwanted footage.
• Use Intelligent Encoding to assemble clips and edits and encode only the changes to the media.
• Write custom publishing plug-ins for Expression Encoder to push Silverlight media experiences to your web server or hosting service.
• Preview encoding settings in real time using A/B Compare. Set a target bit rate. Compare with original source as the file plays.
• Set playback parameters for more than 14 included Silverlight player templates.
• Speedup VC-1 encoding with multiprocessor and multicore processor machines.

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FRONTPAGE 2003 Training Course

FRONTPAGE 2003 Training Course Review

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FRONTPAGE 2003 Training Course Feature

• Proven training techniques with 3D voice
• Step By Step instructions with voice
• Learn and master skills in minutes

Learn FRONTPAGE 2003 Training Course fast and easy with this program. No experience required. Install program from CD and start your self-paced training course now. Many userful skills and solutions will be taught by 3D talking Instructor with voice and animation. You will quickly learn, such as:
# HOW TO CHANGE COMMON FIGURE

# How to change the Figure height to baby
# How to change the Figure Height to Toddler
# How to change the Figure Height to Child
# How to change the Figure Height to Juvenile
# How to change the Figure Height to Adolescent
# How to change the Figure Height to Fashion Model
# How to change the Figure Height to Heroic Model
# How to show the Silhouette view
# How to show the Outline view
# How to show the Wireframe view
# How to show the Hidden Line
# How to show the Lit Wireframe
# How to show the Flot Shaded
# How to show the Cartoon view
# How to show the Smooth Shade Lined
# How to view the Bounding Boxes Only

# HOW TO ADD DIFFERENCE EFFECT

# How to change the Background color
# How to show the Paper Grain
# How to add the noise effect in the background
# How to add the Noise Embossed effect
# How to add the Weave effect in the picture
# How to add the Grid effect in the picture
# How to add the Graph effect in the picture
# How to add the legal in the picture
# How to add the Ground Plane
# How to add the Head Lengths
# How to add the Hip-Shoulder Relationship
# How to show the vanishing line

# HOW TO CREATE DIFFERENCE VIEW

# How to create the Aux Camera view
# How to create the Left Camera
# How to create the Right Camera
# How to create the top camera
# How to create the Bottom camera
# How to create the Back Camera
# How to create the Face camera
# How to create the Posing Camera
# How to create the Right Hand Camera
# How to create the Left Hand Camera
# How to create the Fly Around camera

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Microsoft FrontPage 101 Video Tutorials & eBook

Microsoft FrontPage 101 Video Tutorials & eBook Review

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Microsoft FrontPage 101 Video Tutorials & eBook Feature

• 95 Minutes of Full-Motion Video Tutorials
• Learn All The Basics of Web Design with FrontPage
• Includes Printable Color Step-by-Step eBook Guide
• Just Watch And Learn
• Free Upgrade to Expression Web 101 When Released

Anyone can create and edit professional-quality Web Sites using Microsoft FrontPage. You don't have to be a professional, or a computer geek.

Our video Lessons with simple step-by-step instructions work for everyone, regardless of skill-level. People learn best by example. Our full-motion video tutorials allow you to watch each lesson right on your computer screen, just like a movie. You can pause the lesson whenever you want. Rewind, and practice at your own pace. You follow along with the instructor and do the examples. Learning with our tutorials is better than sitting in a classroom. You are in complete control.

This tutorial uses Microsoft FrontPage XP and is valid for 2000 and 2003 as well. You will receive a FREE upgrade to our Microsoft Expression Web 101 Tutorial when it is released later this year.

You will learn: what FrontPage is, what it does, and why you should use it. Web site planning, Seven Steps for Good Web Design, the different parts of the screen, how to build a home page, create a navigation bar with hyperlinks, how to format your pages to make them look professional, use colors, fonts, horizontal lines, etc.

Next, you will learn how to create a template page, how to work with multiple pages in a web, how to rename pages, edit new pages, create hyperlinks. create mail links, web page links to other sites, links to other pages within your own site, make custom external hyperlinks.

You will add graphics to your Web, inserting clipart, the pictures toolbar, learn to position clipart images absolutely on the page, take your own graphics and images and insert them into your Web.

We'll show you how to perform a screen capture to grab any image on your screen to drop into your pages.

You will publish your Web from your local PC up to the Internet. We'll talk about registering a domain name, and setting up Web hosting service. We'll talk about Web site design tips and tricks from our years in the Web design business.

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Microsoft Frontpage 98 (Full Version)

Microsoft Frontpage 98 (Full Version) Review

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Microsoft Frontpage 98 (Full Version) Feature

• Full Version Not an UPGRADE
• Includes these tools:
• Microsoft Image Composer
• Microsoft GIF Animator

Web Site Creation and Management tool. Get all the tools you need to create and manage Web sites easily.

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