Microsoft Expression Web 2 Upgrade
Written by Clement Faria on November 19, 2009 under Web Development.
- Only design tool on the market that combines the power of design and development with Microsoft Visual Studio compatibility and support for ASP.NET 3.5 including ASP.NET AJAX and PHP
- Build sites according to today’s standards, including XHTML, CSS, XML, and XSLT; enjoy better rendering in browsers, more relevant indexing in search engines, enhanced productivity, and more
- Design-focused tools simplify complex web technology and put you in complete control
- Expression Web 2 switches from standards to quirks rendering, depending on the doctype in use; have confidence that your designs will translate perfectly from your design tool to the browser
- Working visually with XML data has never been easier; now you can easily include, filter, and sort data from any XML source
Product Description
EXPRESSION WEB 2 ENGLISH UPG DVDAmazon.com
Enter a new era in Web design. Expression Web 2 Upgrade gives you all the tools you need to produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites. Expression Web 2 combines the power of design and development with Microsoft Visual Studio compatibility and support for ASP.NET 3.5 including ASP.NET AJAX and PHP. Compatibility reporting of HTML/XHTML and CSS. … More >>
Microsoft Expression Web 2 Upgrade
Ajay Gautam
November 19, 2009 at 10:05 pm
A Microsoft product that claims to do something standards-compatible!
Yeah right, when pigs fly!
Seriously… Microsoft is THE very definition of incompatibility.
Rating: 1 / 5
Leroy J. Machulda
November 20, 2009 at 12:44 am
DON’T BUY THIS PRODUCE. YOU WILL BE OUT THE $90.00 IT COST YOU. This is not an upgrade, it’s a come on. It is a time limited preview install that deletes in 30 days unless you buy the program for $1,000.00.
Typical microsoft come on.
Rating: 1 / 5
J. Burk
November 20, 2009 at 2:10 am
I find myself reducing the number of stars for this product as I type this and am settling on one. Nobody should be transmitting over bare FTP any more. It’s a very shoddy web host, in fact, who hasn’t offered secure connections for a while now. Think about it this way, would you submit a credit card payment online if the order page wasn’t secure? That’s exactly what Microsoft is asking everybody who uses this product to do when uploading their web pages.
This isn’t some new cutting edge standard. Dreamweaver has supported FTP over SSL for at least FIVE years. All the other cute bells and whistles in this product and the time couldn’t have been devoted to the most important aspect of any web publishing product?
So I’m afraid I can’t offer much information concerning the usability and power of this product because I just uninstalled it. If they missed this obvious of a feature, then what else is missing? I’m not going to find out. First Frontpage and now Expression Web. Microsoft just is NOT taking web design software seriously. We’ll see what new name they can come up with for this same half-baked product line in three years.
Rating: 1 / 5
J. Ferris
November 20, 2009 at 3:43 am
I wind up doing most of the XHTML & CSS by hand in the code view as Expression Web frequently screws things up. It also does a lousy job of WYSIWYG. What I’ve done almost never looks like it does when I upload it to the server & test with IE & Firefox. I bought an upgrade to Expression Web after I learned about XHTML & CSS. I had been using Front Page from v98 to v2003 when I decided to upgrade to EW. Only a few months after making the upgrade to EW – I find out that I have to pay AGAIN for an upgrade to EW2. I’d like to have the PHP support this version offers but I think I’ll ditch Microsoft for Adobe. Lots more plugins & extensions for the Dreamweaver platform & I’m sick of Microsoft’s (can you say VISTA is junk?) GOOOOOOOOO open source! Use open source software & contribute if you like the stuff. Maybe we can put a stake in Microsoft’s heart…
Rating: 1 / 5
mj
November 20, 2009 at 5:15 am
Typical M/S product – except they went out of their way
to make the packaging harder than ever to open
It’s a nice upgrade from frontpage – but if they made
Visual Studio less expensive – that would be the key
Rating: 2 / 5