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  A fantasic web design tool. December 28, 2007
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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.
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