Microsoft Expression Web Upgrade from FrontPage [OLD VERSION]

by Microsoft

Product Features

• Upgrade package for professional design tool to create modern, standards-based sites that deliver superior quality on the Web
• Seamlessly integrate Web design and development teams with Expression Web and Visual Studio's superior support for XML, ASP.NET and XHTML
• Built-in support for latest Web standards means your sites will be optimized for accessibility and cross-browser compatibility
• Advanced CSS rendering engine lets you make decision making on the fly
• Harnesses the power of ASP.NET 2.0 to transform your sites into dynamic, interactive Web applications

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000OOCM12
• Item model number: UCQ-00475
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 9, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,056 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #4 in Software > Web Development > Professional Development
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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The Microsoft Expression suite of professional design tools and innovative technologies will take your creative possibilities to a new level. Whether you are designing standards-based Web sites, rich user experiences on the desktop, or managing digital assets and content, Microsoft Expression applications will help. Microsoft Expression Web is a professional design tool to create modern, standards-based sites that deliver superior quality on the Web.

Build and format views of industry-standard XML data using drag-and drop tools for quick visualization.

Design customized views of industry-standard XML data using powerful drag-and-drop tools, and see how your data will look within your CSS site design.

Create CSS-based, XHTML 1.0 Transitional-conforming Web sites by default. View larger.

Generate elegant, modern CSS layouts with state-of-the-art surface design tools. View larger.

New Era, New Tool
Microsoft Expression Web helps you to reduce complexity and ease data integration by using powerful design tools and task panes to quickly incorporate XML data. You can seamlessly integrate Web design and development teams with Expression Web and Visual Studio's superior support for XML, ASP.NET and XHTML. The software is also designed to help you unleash your creative ideas and bring your Web sites to life with sophisticated CSS design features. Visual designers, specialized task panes, and tool bars give you precise control of page layout and formatting. These superior tools will let you build dynamic, interactive pages that harness the power of the Web, and the built-in support for today's modern Web standards means that it's easier than ever to optimize your sites for accessibility and cross-browser compatibility. This all translates to superior performance with the same Microsoft passion about delivering the highest quality and standards possible.

Standards-Based Web Sites
With Expressions Web, you can create CSS-based, XHTML 1.0 Transitional-conforming Web sites by default. This means that you creations will work better across browsers, simplifying deployment and maintenance. You'll be able to configure flexible schema settings to support all combinations of HTML, XHTML, Strict, Transitional, Frameset and CSS 1.0, 2.0, and 2.1 plus browser-specific schemas, and validate your site with compatibility and accessibility reporting and against Section 508 and W3C Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

Generating elegant, modern CSS layouts with state-of-the-art surface design tools has never been easier. A sophisticated CSS rendering engine inside gives you the confidence to make design decisions on the fly, and you can even try out CSS styles on the page with drag-and-drop style management and migrate them to a central repository. Typing aids and IntelliSense in the Code View make your process extremely efficient and fast.

Rich Data Presentation and Powerful Server Technology
Using drag-and drop tools for quick visualization, you can build and format views of industry-standard XML data. An XPath Expression Builder allows you to create complex queries, and XSL Transform (XSLT) support gives you the flexibility to present data any way you want. The software can also help you retrieve and present XML data via live RSS feeds that match your site's formatting.

Expressions Web harnesses the power of ASP.NET 2. to transform your sites into dynamic, interactive Web applications. No code data binding is required with the application's integrated support for server and user controls. Expressions Web also makes inserting and configuring ASP.NET controls a snap with the controls toolbox, properties grid, and on-control "action menus," while the ASP.NET Master Pages make site-wide changes quick and easy.

Product Description

Item #: 44923G. Microsoft Expression Web gives you all the tools you'll need to produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites the way you want them. Take advantage of the best of dynamic Web site design, enabling you to design, develop, and maintain exceptional standards-based Web sites.Unleash your creativity and bring your Web sites to life with sophisticated CSS design features including visual designers, specialized task panes, and tool bars that give you precise control of page layout and formatting.Reduce complexity and ease integration of data by using powerful task panes and design tools, which allow quick incorporation of XML data. Seamlessly integrate Web design and development teams with Expression Web and Microsoft Visual Studio, by taking advantage of superior support for XML, ASP.NET and XHTML.Create dynamic, interactive pages and sites that leverage the power of the Web to deliver compelling user experiences. Easily design to standards and optimize your sites for accessibility and cross-browser compatibility with built-in support and validation for Web standards.

Product Description
Microsoft Expression Web - upgrade package
Category: Creativity application
Subcategory: Creativity - web design / publishing
License Type: Upgrade package
License Pricing: Standard
Language(s): English
Platform: Windows
Distribution Media: CD-ROM
OS Required: Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or later, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 or later
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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

69 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Why did Microsoft leave out a lot of the good stuff?!?!, August 9, 2007

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Mark D. Poarch (Tucson, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Expression Web Upgrade from FrontPage [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

If you are using a Microsoft Web-building product for the first time and are going to use Expression Web to create new web sites that meet current Web standards and will display well in a most browsers, you will probably like this program--with its Dream Weaver-type interface and on-the-fly CSS--as much, if not better, than the competitors' programs. However, if you are upgrading from Front Page and are creating thousands of pages of computer-based training material for use on IE7 only (as we are at our company), you will miss a number of very handy features that were present in Front Page 2003. While, on the one hand, the Expression Web interface incorporates the excellent file management features from Front Page (much better than in Dream Weaver) and adds tremendous functionality, there are a number of omissions and quirks that can be extremely frustrating. Here are just a few of them:
1) Front Page provided menu commands for inserting video clips and Flash animations; Expression Web does not. All links to these items must be inserted in the code. Furthermore, there is no mention of this omission by Microsoft either in the help system or on line. The program does, however, include an easy-to-use Snippets tool where, with a little effort, you could store the code for these functions.
2) When you open Expression Web, the Folders view does not include a Title column, and there is no way to access it. I found out by accident that if you open a page in a new window, the Title column magically appears.
3) Microsoft still does not include the Paragraph command on the right-click button. This is one of the most useful commands. The keyboard shortcut <Alt> + O + P can be used to expedite access to the Paragraph command.
4) When you choose to code CSS manually, the Format Painter is disabled. Sometimes I just want to avoid the extra styles Expression Web generates when in Automatic mode, but I want to be able to copy code using the Format Painter.
5) There is no longer a Preview mode. This isn't a big deal because I prefer to view my work in the browser.
6) The shortcut key for previewing in the browser is <F12>, which in almost every other program is reserved for the Save As function. What was Microsoft thinking?
7) If I manually change a link color, the underline shows in the correct color in Expression Web, but not in the browser (it adopts the default link color). This was not a problem in Front Page.
There is more, but you get the idea. This is typical Microsoft development: two steps forward, one step back!

45 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary product suite, July 5, 2007

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David J. Thompson "Shop Geek" (Sheridan, IN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Expression Web Upgrade from FrontPage [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

Being a developer, it's always nice to find something that surprises you with its utility and overall quality. This suite is comprised of four (4) products, Web, Design, Blend, and Media. So far, they all work well except for Media which seems very sluggish at times. I'm not sure, yet, why it bogs down but it may well be a setting that I've neglected or set mistakenly. I do have a large amount of audio-visual material for it to catalog and I may have mis-configured it somehow. That said, though, the rest of the suite has, so far, worked very well.

Expression Web is the page/site building tool. It stresses the use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and/or ASP.NET for the design and implementation of web content. It's such a step up from FrontPage that it's not even comparable. FrontPage created the muddiest code I've ever worked with. Because of that, I stopped using it and just hand coded everything. I also tried other authoring tools on the market but they were all just glorified text editors and weren't really very helpful over a good editor. When I first downloaded the eval version of Expression Web, it was an early Beta version and it was very sluggish. However, this release version is very responsive and produces very good content.

Expression Design is a graphics design package with both bit-mapped and vector-based graphic tools. I particularly like the vector tools. I've used Photoshop for a long time and have missed the vector drawing abilities I used to have in CorelDraw. However, I came up with work arounds and such. However, Expression Design may well satisfy my need for Photoshop (and its exhorbitant price). It's a very versatile and useful package. Its use of layers is great just like they are in Photoshop. Many other graphics applications that are in this price range are lacking layers and it's a serious loss.

Expression Blend is almost staggering in its capabilities and implications. When coupled with Visual Studio 2005 (included) and knowledge of the .NET Framework, its a fantastic front end design tool with lots of great animation tools. I'm still getting my feet wet on this tool but, from what I've seen so far, it's gonna be fun!

Expression Media is the only disappointment so far. It's why the package only got a 4 star rating instead of a 5 star. It seems to choke pretty easily. I have about 11000 photos, ranging from JPGs to TIFFs to NEFs (Nikon raw images) to PSDs (Photoshop 7), and although it sees all of them and imports them, the viewing and responsiveness of the program is very sluggish and crash prone. It's crased three times already on me and I'll probably wait for an update or service pack before re-trying it.

Hope this helped. Overall, I highly recommend this package to web develpers that want to use newer, standards-based web content development. The package also is a great helper for developing application graphic content such as custom buttons, etc... for use in Visual Studio 2005 and beyond.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Your Father's Oldsmobile, December 28, 2007

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Richard Shulman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Expression Web Upgrade from FrontPage [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I am a casual user of MS FrontPage. I do believe in upgrading my software as new versions become available. So I purchased the upgrade version of MS Expression. It is not anything like FrontPage. It was designed for a full time web designer and not for a casual user. You had better have a technical dictionary available as neither the software or the accompanying instruction cd tell you what all the acronyms mean. When I finally figured out some of the jargon and was able to create a couple of web pages, it was not WYSIWYG. This is going to take some time to get used to. If you are a casual web author and going to buy this product be prepared to do some serious homework.