Brennon said:

Howdy...

As the owner of www.expressionblend.com I would like to thank you for the support as well as to apologise for the layout... I don’t get on very well with community server...

It has all gone a little nuts...


The site is due to be remodelled later this year, and has taken a step back as a priority because I have been building a network of sites that will deliver structured video tutorial content for the following products.

• Expression Blend
• Expression Web
• Expression Design
• Silverlight
• ZAM3D
• Swift V5.0
• StandOut

These sites are all being aimed towards showing designers how to build stuff with Blend being of particular focus, and importantly showing designers how to write code in the context of a UI.. in plain speak that they will understand.

The sites are coming very shortly... just putting the final touches on the framework and the WPF tutorial player!!

I am also writing the book.. “Expression Blend Unleashed” to be published by SAMS later this year (Jul-Aug), but you can pre-order from amazon.

So, lots coming to support people that need to know how to use this product, and again, the expressionblend.com site will be cleaned up as well.

Cheers

Brennon Williams

The splash page you have looks cool but nothing there at expressionblend.com right now. I'm a freelance designer in STL that has been hired by a software team looking to develop animations and cool designs for their software package.  They are determined to use Blend and WPF for development and design. So far I have found very little on animation for Blend other than simple key frame animations and have run through ever tut on Lynda at least twice to familiarize myself with the program.  Not to mention run down tuts even on Youtube as well as other sites.

But I still have questions.

In particular, drag and drop options for menus...or manipulation of graphic shapes....reverse key frame animations.  Things that you could easily do in Flash but I can't for the life of me figure out in Blend.

Any direction you can give me on animations in Blend would be appreciated.  For example….where is the option in Blend to be able to draw a rectangle and grab its side and bend it like you are able to do in Flash?  If MS is going to convert Flash designers, they need to be able to easily find the tools and methods that make crowd pleasing animations.  More time spent on showing these types of examples would go a long way to win over this segment of Flash users.

I'm really dedicated to learning more and more about Blend.  I have ran through all the tuts over at Lynda at least twice and am hungry for more advanced techniques and tools.

Thanks

Zachary Bauer
http://www.wetinkpro.com