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Tip 247: The really small Big Picture

Jason — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:10:00 +0000

The SuperPreview thumbnail display shows which part of a web page is displayed—a real time-saver for really big web pages! You can even navigate from the thumbnail display; just click and drag the highlighted area.

States, Storyboards, and Behaviors

Jason — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:29:13 +0000

Hello all and wow it’s good to be back with a video for the site here. Taking some time off at the end of last year and then the setback of transition to Azure hosting of the videos it felt like I blinked and I was three months behind.

Well it is time to kick it back into high gear and I have several videos lined up and I hope to make a real nuisance of myself here in the very near future.

In this video I take a look at building a simple website in Blend using states and behaviors to manage the content and storyboards to add another level of interaction to the site with a simple color changer.

I hope you get something out of the video and as always I invite you to drop a line here in the comments if there are any questions or comments, if there is something you might like to see highlighted in a video or to just say hi.

Thanks,
J.

Click Here To Watch States, Storyboards, and Behaviors.

Here is a zip of the project solution for you.

Tip 244: Click here for details

Jason — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:01:13 +0000

SuperPreview displays critical parameters when you click on an individual element. The Tag display shows the element’s type, position, size, and class/ID name.

Tip 237: Transition Preview

Jason — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:01:21 +0000

Select Transition Preview and switch between states to see transitions on the artboard.

Bringing back the videos

Jason — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:36:29 +0000

I have setup my Azure account and I am in the process of bringing back the videos one by one right now, trying to figure out all the best switches and buttons to push so things go well for you guys viewing them.

I have turned back on the Sketchflow video thus far, some tweaking is needed. I’ll let you all know when we are 100% again.

Thanks for your patience and I apologize for any inconvenience.

Videos are down

Jason — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:24:33 +0000

I apologize but right now the videos on the site are not working. This is something that I was expecting since silverlight.live.com which was hosting my streaming files was scheduled to be shut down, it just snuck up on me and I wasn’t proactive enough. I need to find a new solution to hosting the files and hopefully I will have the videos back up shortly.

Apologies.

Tip 235: Managing your inheritance

Jason — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:25:00 +0000

The DOM tree view shows you exactly where each element "lives" within the document object and every element from which it inherits properties, exactly as rendered by the selected browser.

Tip 234: I’m all about the default

Jason — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:01:14 +0000

You can quickly restore the Expression Web default workspace layout. Just click Panels, and then click Reset Workspace Layout.

Tip 233: Make a big deal out of the Silverlight template preview image.

Jason — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:01:11 +0000

Don’t fret that the preview image in the Silverlight template thumbnail in Expression Encoder 3 is too small. Just double-click the image to resize the preview to full-screen.

Tip 232: Video on demand

Jason — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:01:08 +0000

Adding a Silverlight video to a page also includes a Silverlight video player. Now you can show videos right in a page, even if your hosting provider isn’t configured for streaming video.