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In the previous chapter, we have installed Microsoft Expression Web and now we are ready to start working on it. In this chapter, we will learn how to create a new website from scratch.
Create a Website
To create a new website, let’s open Microsoft Expression Web.
Next, you need to follow the steps given below.
Step 1 − Select Site → New Site… menu option.
Step 2 − It will open the following dialog from which you can create or import different types of website.
Step 3 − For simplicity let’s select General → One Page Site.
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Specify the location or you can browse to the location where you want the new website to be created.
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Type in the name of your web in the name field and click OK.
Step 4 − The new web will be created with one page named default.htm. Let’s rename it to index.html with a right-click on the file and clicking on the Rename option.
Step 5 − 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">
You can see it by just switching to the code view.
You can change the doctype from Tools → Page Editor Options → Authoring.
Step 6 − Now, let’s add <h1> tag inside the body tag and some text as shown in the following code.
<!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">
<head>
<meta content = "text/html; charset = utf-8" http-equiv = "Content-Type" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>
This my first Web page
</h1>
</body>
</html>
Step 7 − To see our web in a browser, let’s go to the File menu and select the Preview in Browser → Any browser, let’s say, Internet Explorer.
It will open our web in Internet Explorer.
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