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38 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Adobe needs to watch out
I have been using both Dreamweaver and Frontpage for a long time and have watched both grow. With Expression 1.0 Frontpage grew up and became a serious web tool, with Expression Web 2.0 it leaves Adobe playing catch up. There is simply no better tool out there that will help you create and manage your sites. Perhaps Adobe will make Dreamweaver CS4 better but for now this...
Published on May 27, 2008 by Wallace Billingham
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A product for beginners
I purchased this product with hopes to increase my Web site development productivity. Unfortunately, after using it for about a week I am greatly disappointed. Features that are common in other development environments are missing or buried deeply, like surround selection with comment tags or format the selected HTML to keep indentations correct for that selection. It...
Published on May 6, 2009 by Jared DelAsmus
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38 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Adobe needs to watch out,
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This review is from: Microsoft Expression Web 2 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
I have been using both Dreamweaver and Frontpage for a long time and have watched both grow. With Expression 1.0 Frontpage grew up and became a serious web tool, with Expression Web 2.0 it leaves Adobe playing catch up. There is simply no better tool out there that will help you create and manage your sites. Perhaps Adobe will make Dreamweaver CS4 better but for now this is the new leader in WYSIWYG web design
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good, bad, similar,
This review is from: Microsoft Expression Web 2 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
Expression Web 2 is very similar to Dreamweaver 8. 'EW2' handels CSS code very well and has a good Design Window. FrontPage did a poor job viewing CSS web pages. I miss the Review button. Now you have to press F12 key to view through the browser, same as 'DW8'. Overall, I like Expression Web 2, but I suggest buying a good manual to review the newer menu system, creating CSS, and publishing to the web. A good FTP program is suggested too. MS made just enough improvements to keep up with Dreamweaver 8. My give Expression Web 2 a positive review.
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A product for beginners,
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This review is from: Microsoft Expression Web 2 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
I purchased this product with hopes to increase my Web site development productivity. Unfortunately, after using it for about a week I am greatly disappointed. Features that are common in other development environments are missing or buried deeply, like surround selection with comment tags or format the selected HTML to keep indentations correct for that selection. It seems it can only format the entire document -- and EW2 does it in the way IT likes, not in the way you may have become accustomed. For example, it formats the <head> section as all left-justified.
EW2 doesn't visually indicate the close tag of an element or structure by clicking on it. You have to right-click and select "Select Tag." Other development environments (Visual Studio, Aptana Studio) have made such indications automatically for years. This is very cumbersome if you're trying to verify everything is closed correctly or determine the extent of a block of code. In addition, if you're using CSS style sheets for page formatting, as is the method recommended by the W3C and other standards groups, the GUI modification environment ignores them. If you move something even one pixel in the GUI presentation, code (top: XXpx; left: XXpx; etc.) gets added to the element instead of modifying the style sheet - even if the element has an ID and a stylesheet unique to the page. That complicates things if you're trying to use CSS Stylesheets for your page formatting. Stay out of the GUI environment! The Undo feature also works unexpectedly. If you haven't saved, and you undo, it sometimes appears to undo to the last saved state, and redo is left unavailable. Save often! No, I mean even more often than you used to -- as in every sentence or so. I couldn't get Undo and Redo to work reliably or consistently as I have done in other development environments. Expression Web 2 also takes more liberties than it should in adding code to your document and making assumptions that may not be valid. If you're using PHP "include" statements EW2 gets confused. In such cases EW2 will try to correct your page in a way it understands, but not in a way that is correct. I encountered many problems -- some of which deleted code and resulted in lost work for me. You might say it was user error, but if I encounter such errors as an experienced user of *other* development environments in which I don't have such errors, then I say the product invites user errors and is too risky for me to use. If you're just starting out, this might be a good starter program for you, but I wouldn't recommend it for anyone who is fluent in HTML, XHTML, CSS, or PHP. You'll end up spending half your time correcting what EW2 does to your web pages. If I could return this product for a refund, I would.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent product,
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This review is from: Microsoft Expression Web 2 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
Historically I've maintained my own websites the manly way: writing HTML with a text editor. But it's way too complicated to do that now, and I needed something that would help me with all the new features and capabilities. Expression Web 2 does just that. I'm a retired professional IT guy, but not a web or graphics expert. This product works perfect for me.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Better than Microsoft Front Page,
By Brock Roshon (Ohio) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Microsoft Expression Web 2 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
I have used Microsoft Front Page for many years for auctions and other things and thought that Microsoft Front Page was the best out there in terms of creating websites and other things like that. I lost my Microsoft Front Page and was looking online for another one when I came upon Microsoft Expression Web 2 and decided to try it. When I got it loaded and was toying with it I thought "wow, this is so much better than Microsoft Front Page.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent software,
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This review is from: Microsoft Expression Web 2 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
I actually haven't bought this software yet, but I have been using the trial version so far and will definately be buying it.
I started with Dreamweaver, which I found useable, but very difficult to do what I wanted to. MSE2 made it VERY EASY to work on my website. I am no pro, in fact I have zero training in web design. As such, I think this is a very powerful program which can help even novices get done what they need to. I am sure the Dreamweaver is great, but not for someone like me. I only gave it four stars becuase I don't think I have enough experience or knowledge to give it more...I don't know anything about Flash, Silverlight, and other more advanced tools.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Web IDE!!,
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This review is from: Microsoft Expression Web 2 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
Up till now, every site I've worked on or created has been done with a simple editor and browser. I've also used some packages for my ecommerce forays, like osCommerce and ZenCart. However, this is the first IDE I've used for web development.
My last programming gig was almost six years ago, so picking EW2 up was a bit of a challenge, but nothing too overwhelming. I love the application, but you should be aware that without a bigger monitor, it will be hard to use. You could close all the palettes, but that kinda defeats the idea of an IDE, ya know? If you own Office 2007 or a number of other web design software packages, you can pick up the upgrade version of this for about 25-30% of the purchase price of this product. Well worth it, it my book.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Watch out dreamweaver!,
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This review is from: Microsoft Expression Web 2 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
Great product. I used it to create my company's website and I found Expression Web 2 to be smoother, easier to use, and more transparent than Dreamweaver. Highly reccomended!
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Watch Out Dreamweaver, There is a New Boss In Town,
By Robert L. Stinnett (Boonville, MO) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Microsoft Expression Web 2 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
When I first started fooling around with we pages back in 1994 when the Internet was fresh and new my HTML editor of choice was a simple text editor. Over the years the Internet has evolved and technology has changed, but I've stuck with a simple text editor for most of my needs. I tried Microsoft Frontpage back in the day, but felt it was just so bloated and inefficient that it wasn't worth it. It was with hesitation and a lot of reservations that I finally decided to give Microsoft Expression Web a shot -- and wow, Microsoft has come a long, long way.
First thing about Expression Web is that it's so flexible depending on your skillset. Are you still working with Frontpage extensions? No problem! Are you moving up to using stylesheets? It will guide you and help you along! Maybe you run your own site with custom coding -- Expression understands PHP, Javscript and ASP without a problem! It will even do syntax checking as you write the code. Even if you are a web guru Expression Web can help you out. With extensive support for XML, CSS and data sources you will find everything you need to keep your site chugging. Gone is the inefficient, slow and incompatible features of Frontpage and in is the support for WWW, XML and CSS standards. You'll love how it can help you not only keep your site compliant with the latest standards, but also how it helps with promoting your site from "dev" to "prod" with just a few clicks. I tried Dreamweaver in the past, and found it not only too complicated, but way too expensive. Expression Web is really going to give Dreamweaver a run for their money -- and their user base. Once you get the hand of Expression Web you may even find yourelf looking at the other Microsoft Expression products such as Microsoft Expression Blend 2 and Microsoft Expression Encoder 2 to further expand your web toolkit.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Program for Web Developers,
This review is from: Microsoft Expression Web 2 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
This Microsoft Web Software does everything you need for getting your website published. The interface is very similar to Microsoft Visual Studios and looks and feels very familiar. I have used several web development products through the years like Dreamweaver, Frontpage, Homesite(several years ago) and others, but they do about the same thing. Now with Microsoft Expression Web 2 I can do more .NET web pages, mainly because it links to Visual Studio's Software when I need to use it.
I have only used this software for a month and it's great. However there is one thing I don't like about the Wizard, there is an open button on creating a new website with the wizard. I think it should be a create button. It's kind of confusing if you don't know what to do. |
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