Create New Website in Expression Web 4

Now that you have Expression Web installed and have set up the program following the Setting Up Expression Web and Site Settings tutorials, you are ready to start working on your new web. If you have already created a website you can open it in Expression Web. Be sure you have a good backup just in case. Or you can create a new website and start from scratch.

NOTE: Screen shots may look different from what you see. I am running Expression Web on a computer with Windows 10 installed.

If the only copy of your website in on your server, follow the instructions below EXCEPT choose EMPTY WEB SITE rather than one page web site. Instructions for Publishing from your remote server.

Create a One Page Website

Step 1: Start Expression Web > Site > New Site  OR if you want to use the keyboard Ctrl + Shift + N

Screenshot Site > New Site Mwnu.

Step 2: In the dialog box

  1. Choose General > One Page Web Site.
  2. Under specify location of the new website,  put your cursor in the location box and delete from the right end up to the slash after MY WEB SITES\ or you can browse to the location where you want the new web created. Type in the name of your website — use a hyphen rather than a underscore. I use the actual name of my domain as the folder name, without the extension. Example: expression-web-tutorials.
  3. Tick the box if you want this site added to your Manage Sites Listing and specify the Name of your site. The default is the name you type in the location box, BUT you can change it to include CAPS and spaces, i.e., Expression Web Tutorials. NOTE: The default location is MY WEB SITES unless you have specified a different location for your Documents and WebSites.
  4. Click OK.

Screenshot Create website.
Click on thumbnail for larger view.

Step 3: The new web will be created with one page named default.htm/l. I immediately rename it to index.html by right clicking on the file > Rename

Screenshot Menu Rename File.

Step 4: Use this for you new web. At the same time, I create a new folder for images.

Either click the new folder icon  OR Right Click > New > Folder > images

The default doctype used in Expression Web is <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

OR

<!DOCTYPE html>

Depending on your choices when you set up the program. You can change that in Tools > Page Editor Options > Authoring.

Now that you have created your website, you can either open the default.html, or index.html if you renamed it, and begin creating a page that will serve as the template for your site.

If you would like a starting point for designing your new website, please feel free to download and use one of these

Pat Geary.

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