
Expression web (Product of the Microsoft Expression family) is a new application to replace Microsoft Frontpage. The definition from Microsoft says
Q. What is Microsoft Expression Web?
A. Microsoft® Expression® Web is a professional design tool to create modern, standards-based sites.
With the amount of new features added to it, Expression web definetely look more convincing than Frontpage.
Q. How does Expression Web compare to Microsoft Office FrontPage® 2003 and Visual Studio as a Web design/development tool?
A. Expression Web is a new product for professional Web designers that combines the best of both FrontPage and Visual Studio technologies in a new user interface for creating XHTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, and ASP.NET 2.0. Where appropriate, the user interface and features of Expression Web and Visual Studio are identical (such as for ASP.NET control properties).Q. How does Expression Web provide an enhanced user experience on the Web?
A. Expression Web provides Web professionals with everything they need to build attractive, high-quality websites using HTML, DHTML, CSS, and XHTML. With Expression Web, professional designers can easily take advantage of the best of dynamic website design, enabling users to quickly and efficiently design, develop, and maintain standards-based Web applications with seamless integration with ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005.Q. How does Expression Web reduce development and design complexity?
A. Expression Web provides seamless integration with Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0, enabling designers and developers to interact using products that they are most comfortable with. Designers can easily lay out XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and basic dynamic functionality using Expression Web and take advantage of many ASP.NET 2.0-specific features like Master Pages for templating, and drag and drop controls. The project can then be handed over to developers using Visual Studio 2005, enabling them to extend the functionality through advanced server-side code and business logic.
Read more about Expression Web
A Microsoft product worth a try, but I’ll probably stay with my Dreamweaver and Ultradev :)
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Posted by hongkiat in Tech News , at 12.26.06
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kew December 26th, 2006
It still looks the same.. and lack the capability for blogging interface, I guess Microsoft is not going there with the Expression engine. Also, web design, not much aide there as well, looks like this tool is for professional coders, am not spending a dime for it…
ReplyCode Principles June 6th, 2008
The graphics program for Expression Web I looked at looked like it was a very steps below Photoshop.
I have heard there are a ton of cool things that you can do with all (4 of them I think) programs, so I will have to check them out.
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