Microsoft Expression Web Professional Design Tool

List Price: $299.00 Discount Price: $149.00

Features:

• Professional design tool to create modern, standards-based sites which deliver superior quality on the Web
• Reduce complexity and ease data integration by using powerful design tools and task panes to quickly incorporate XML data
• Seamlessly integrate Web design and development teams with Expression Web and Visual Studio's superior support for XML, ASP.NET and XHTML
• Sophisticated CSS design features; visual designers, specialized task panes, and tool bars give you precise control of page layout and formatting
• Build dynamic, interactive pages; built-in support for today's modern Web standards makes it easy to optimize your sites for accessibility and cross-browser compatibility

Accessories:
Microsoft Expression Web (Visual QuickStart Guide)	Microsoft Expression Web Bible	Beginning Expression Web (Wrox Beginning Guides)	Special Edition Using Microsoft Expression Web	Microsoft Expression Web On Demand

Customer Reviews:

Easier than Front Page 2003 [Posted on 2007-01-24]
For the most part, there isn't much difference between Front Page 2003 and Expression Web. I created two websites in the last 6 months and I found Expression Web far easier to use.

If you really want to make full use of this program, you'll use style sheets and some of the other advanced features that are not completely intuitive. FP 2003 had those same features, but I found ExWeb not only easier to use, but it rendered previews more accurately than FP2003.

It's not a bad program. If you're serious about web design and standards, this might be the product for you. If you're just learning, you may want to find something cheaper or something downloadable for free. (caution, free downloads often contain spyware or other malicious code within the program).

Better but buggy [Posted on 2007-02-14]
Microsoft has made some real improvements over the horrible FrontPage series... but it's amazing how many bugs this thing has. I've been using it for a couple months now, and besides the fairly frequent hangs, it'll occasionally undo the changes you just made when you save, has difficulties pasting in from a Word document, and creates and absurd amount of junk CSS at the top of your page by default. I frankly don't need an entirely new CSS class if I want to bold and italicize one word on a page, yet it'll create one and throw it at the top, so if you do a lot of formatting, you'll have a mountain of junk CSS in your header. It does handle CSS a million times better than FrontPage which offered virtually no support, but it still has a LONG way to go and probably should've been subjected to a couple more months of Beta testing before this release.

Too difficult for newbies with no working training features [Posted on 2007-02-24]
I bought this because I had a website in frontpage that is being discontinued by Microsoft. I watched the tutorial which was just an overview...but when I have tried to watch it again to study it....it is frozen up. It is not my computer because it is new and top of the line. I called the company that produced it (a microsoft vendor) and they have yet to get back with me with the resolution.

This program is extremely more complicated than frontpage and does not have a simple way to learn exactly how and when to use all of the many features. It seem like 3 programs in one overlayed on top of each other.

Great! [Posted on 2007-03-26]
This is the first WYSIWYG editior i have used. Other reviwers say this program is not for beginners and does not have any help for them. I dissagre because if you use the online help you can find the subject you are looking for. I am a beginner to web design but I found this program easy to use and very good. I use the basic features but as I get more advanced I will probaly use them. I do not know CSS but i know how it works. On of my favorite feutures is that you can type in things on the design view and the program will generate all the code needed. The program itself looks sort of like Visual studo. Overall I recommend it. Great program! It lacks php and secure ftp though.

easy enough for a beginner [Posted on 2007-03-29]
I bought this software to help me design several web sites including an e commerce site. Overall, this software is very user friendly. Having never used any major web design software, I found it easy to navigate and figure out although I must admit that I had to refer to a help book to decifer a few things - especially with the e commerce site. Once you understand the basics though, it is very straight forward. The tutorials are good. The help links are also good. No regrets in buying it!

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