Review of Microsoft Expression Web

Expression Web is a feature packed wysiwyg web design package that helps you to build fast loading valid web sites using XHTML and CSS.  Expression Web is a solid, professional design program with plenty of goodies for making Web 2.  Expression Web is designed for creative professionals.  Expression Web should not be confused as a tool for the beginner.

Expression Web looks great, but there’s no way that professional designers are going to start using it over Dreamweaver.  Although Dreamweaver is almost twice the cost of Expression Web it is a much more mature product and is the leading design tool for many professional Web Designers.  Dreamweaver has evolved with the Internet which means it is has all the legacy support which is a bit clumsy.

Microsoft Expression Web is a great tool for Professional Designers.  Microsoft Expression Web was built to help you produce pure css code.  Microsoft thought well ahead and Expression Web and seems to be making a legitimate attempt at getting into the Web Design space.  Expression Web is a professional design tool to create modern, standards-based sites that.  Microsoft Expression Web is a new product that provides the tools you need to produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites.  Microsoft has been careful not to say that Expression Web is an upgrade of FrontPage which was discontinued in 2006.

Most reviews especially praise Expression Web for elegant use of CSS (cascading style sheets) and it’s standards based implementation.  I find that Expression Webs CSS editor is the more advanced than Dreamweaver’s. It offers intelisense support and a very nifty style editor property pane that automatically updates style changes regardless of whether they are inline,in a referenced style sheet or declared in the current page.

SharePoint Designer shares its codebase, UI and HTML rendering engine with Microsoft Expression Web, and does not rely on Internet Explorer’s Trident engine which is less standards compliant.  SharePoint Designer is aimed at SharePoint websites, but has more support for FrontPage Components.  Sharepoint Designer picks up where frontpage left off. Expression Web is an entirely new product aimed more at the Dreamweaver user than people who were using Frontpage.

Expression Web is a solid product that creates modern CSS out of the box and has a standards-based approach which helps designers create good code which is browser compatible without jumping through to many hoops. Expression Web isn’t a tool for the beginners but rather professionals looking for an alternative to Dreamweaver.   Expression Web is currently available for trial download and/or purchase.

Download expression web today at the Microsoft Store

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