Microsoft Expression Web Upgrade | This One is the Best

Microsoft Expression Web Upgrade | I am very impressed with it.

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	Microsoft Expression Web Upgrade Windows \| Microsoft Software, 2006 average customer review:based on 45 reviews view larger image
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This One is the Best

As a professional web designer and software developer from way back, this is the current king of web development programs. I have been waiting many years for someone to make a replacement for dreamweaver, which because of its code base has some deep flaws (although dreamweaver is still a respectable and good product over all - the previous king).

I can move back and forth between visual studio effortlessly, and it plays nice. It will even open up dreamweaver templated sites with no problems.

And it is fast, like instant fast - much better than dreamweaver in this regards - when you have 2 dozen windows open, then resource usage starts to become a factor.

For those reviewers you are complaining about lack of front page features, front page was one of the worst products out there, creating sloppy code and difficult to use when creating dynamically driven sites.

If you are serious in your web design work, then get this product.

For newbies - the learning curve involved is one of learning the basics of web development, not so much the product itself. Ignore the adivce to start with frontpage which will teach you bad habits, and start off correctly.

For those of you developing dynamic sites, if you use cold-fusion, php, and the like then stick with dreamweaver. If you use or lean towards the net framework then go with web expression and couple it with visual studio (either the free or pro version)

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I am very impressed with it.

I was very skeptical at first, downloaded the free trial and was blown away with what I have been able to make with it. I am very new to web design, but the website I created with it looks like I paid a designer a lot of money. Now, it took me a long time of clicking on buttons and reading the Microsoft user forums to figure things out, the learning curve is not too difficult but definitely takes some time, but now that I know how to use it I realize how powerful it is as I can bang out new professional sites very quickly.

Main drawback I have heard is that they have done away with some of the Frontpage tools like counters and such. However, they do allow you to cut and paste the code in from those things, I have searched online for Javascript code for various things I wanted to do and found tons of free code to cut and paste into my site that work great. This program makes it very easy to do by switching to code view.

Best advice is this: Everyone seems to agree the programs of choice are either Dreamweaver (which I struggled with) and this, they both offer free trials. Download both from their main websites and try them first, for me this was very clearly the winner.

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Great Upgrade

With the FrontPage products in the past, Microsoft accomodated the beginner to novice web designers. With Expressions Web they have added the most advanced users to the list without losing the beginners. Great product!

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