Site Settings - Expression Web Site Settings

When you first start working with Expression Web, you should set up your site settings as well as Page Editor Options. See Tina's FREE Setting up Expression Web Ebook for the page editor options.

 

Open your site in Expression Web  Choose Site | Site Settings

Site Settings | General Tab

• Web name: The name of the folder on your hard drive will show
• File location: The location on your hard drive
• Manage the Web site using hidden metadata files. This is checked by default and allows the creation of the _vti files. These files control the site on your hard drive and allow you to move files and folders and have Expression Web update your links. It is not necessary to upload these folders. They are used when you work on your site live from within Expression Web which you cannot do on the RootsWeb servers.

Site Settings | Language Tab

EW by default uses UTF-8. If you are using an external style sheet, a Byte Order Mark (BOM) is added to the style sheet. When you try and validate your page, the validator will tell you to fix your HTML first. Changing your language settings will avoid this problem

• Server message language: English (United States)
• Default Page encoding: US/Western European (ISO)
• Check Ignore the keyboard when deciding the encoding of new pages. This should keep the <span lang="en-us"> from being inserted into your html code.

Additional Resources

• Character Set & Page Issues  by Cheryl Wise