Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5760 in Software
• Brand: Microsoft
• Released on: 2007-01-30
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .57 pounds

Manufacturer's Description:
Microsoft Expression takes your creative possibilities to a new level. The professional design tools and innovative technologies in Expression give you the flexibility and freedom to bring your vision to reality. Expression Web is a professional design tool to create modern, standards-based sites that deliver superior quality on the Web.

Access ASP.NET controls and their associated properties with the same power as Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. View larger.

Fine-tune raw data presented on a page with tools to sort, filter, and apply condition formatting. View larger.

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. View larger.

Create, edit, and deploy Web pages with deep support for the newly released ASP.NET 2.0 standard. View larger.

Standards-based Web Sites
Expression Web makes it easy to create CSS-based, XHTML 1.0 Transitional-conforming Web sites by default and work better across browsers, simplifying deployment and maintenance. 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. Then validate your site with compatibility and accessibility reporting and against Section 508 and W3C Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

With Expression Web you can also 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. What's more, designers get the flexibility to represent XML data any way they choose. Present data using XSLT, even editing views on live XML data. Fine-tune raw data presented on a page with tools to sort, filter, and apply condition formatting. You can even retrieve and present XML data from live RSS feeds on your site, styled to match your own site's look and feel.

Sophisticated CSS-based Layout and Formatting
Use Expression Web to generate elegant, modern CSS layouts with state-of-the-art surface design tools. You can directly manipulate positioning, sizing, margins and padding; a sophisticated CSS rendering engine inside gives you the confidence to make design decisions on the fly. Try out CSS styles on the page with drag-and-drop style management, and migrate them to a central repository. Meanwhile, typing aids and IntelliSense in the Code View make your process efficient and fast.

Create, edit, and deploy Web pages with deep support for the newly released ASP.NET 2.0 standard. Capture the power of ASP.NET with easy drag-and-drop controls, and maintain the correct look of your site with the use of server-rendered ASP.NET Master Pages to speed up the design process and allow easy site-wide changes. Access ASP.NET controls and their associated properties with the same power as Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, but rendered within the design surface of Expression Web. You can also preview ASP.NET pages locally, without the need for a full Web server.

Rich Data Presentation
Expression Web makes it possible to build and format views of industry-standard XML data using drag-and drop tools for quick visualization. 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. Plus, XML data can be retrieved and presented via live RSS feeds that match your site's formatting.

Designers get the flexibility to represent XML data any way they choose. Present data using XSLT, even editing views on live XML data. Fine-tune raw data presented on a page with tools to sort, filter, and apply condition formatting. Retrieve and present XML data from live RSS feeds on your site, styled to match your own site's look and feel.

Powerful Server Technology
Harness the power of ASP.NET 2.0 to transform your sites into dynamic, interactive Web applications. Inserting and configuring ASP.NET controls is a snap with the controls toolbox, properties grid, and on-control "action menus." Meanwhile, ASP.NET Master Pages make site-wide changes quick and easy. And with the ASP.NET Development Server, you can make design decisions with full reference to page data.

Upgrade Version
This version of Expression Web is made for license holders of any version of Microsoft FrontPage.

Customer Reviews

A fantasic web design tool.
Microsoft Expression Web is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and general web design program by Microsoft, aimed at designers rather than developers. It provides a powerful integrated development environment combining drag and drop with hand crafted code, all in all it is aimed squarely in opposition to Adobe Dreamweaver and manages to beat this stalwart of web design tools in its ease of use and manipulation of CSS styles.
Expression Web is focused on the needs of professional Web designers seeking to build high-quality, standards-based Web sites for companies. It provides support for integrating XML, CSS 2.1, ASP.NET 2.0, XHTML, XSLT and JavaScript into sites. Expression Web uses its own standards-based rendering engine, the same as is used by Visual Studio. Microsoft claims that Expression Web's rendering engine currently provides the most accurate standards-compliant rendering on the market, especially CSS rendering and I whole heartedly agree with this. One of the key benefits, if you work as part of a team is the project file structure is the same for Expression web as it is for visual studio; so it is possible to share the same code base between developers and designers.
It is not a replacement for Microsoft FrontPage as many people believe FrontPage has been renamed SharePoint Designer. It is part of the Expression Studio suite.