Microsoft Expression Web
Microsoft Expression Web
Build your Web sites
your way
Microsoft® Expression® Web gives you all the tools you'll need to
produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites the way you want them.
Take advantage of the best of dynamic Web site design, enabling you to
design, develop, and maintain exceptional standards-based Web sites,
Microsoft Expression Web Templates.
Explore Creative Possibilities
Unleash your creativity and bring your Web sites to life with
sophisticated CSS design features including visual designers,
specialized task panes, and tool bars that give you precise control of
page layout and formatting.
Realize Greater Productivity
Reduce complexity and ease integration of data by using powerful task
panes and design tools which allow quick incorporation of XML data.
Seamlessly integrate Web design and development teams with Expression
Web and Microsoft Visual Studio®, by taking advantage of superior
support for XML, ASP.NET and XHTML.
Expression Web Templates
Deliver Superior Quality
Create dynamic, interactive pages and sites that leverage the power of
the Web to deliver compelling user experiences. Easily design to
standards and optimize your sites for accessibility and cross-browser
compatibility with built-in support and validation for Web standards,
Expression Web Templates.
Microsoft Expression Web features
Stantards-Based Web Sites:
XHTML compliance
Design sites according to today’s exacting standards with minimum
effort by taking advantage of deep support for XHTML in Expression
Web.
Full schema support
Choose whatever schema you want to adopt, Expression Web builds
appropriate code, and the compatibility checker highlights
non-conformant custom code.
Real-time standards validation
Receive instant feedback of standards violations so instant
corrections can be made during the design process, whether in design
or code view. Prevents time-consuming corrections at a later stage in
the design.
Accessibility checking
Use the built-in accessibility checker to make sure that Web sites can
fully conform to accessibility standards for reading by screen
readers, with support for WCAG and Section 508 standards.
Sophisticated CSS-Based Layout:
Sophisticated CSS-Based Layout
Generate elegant, modern CSS page layouts using powerful design
surface tools with direct manipulation of positioning, sizing,
margins, and padding. Use the Style Application and Positioning
toolbars for precise control over how and where CSS styles are
generated, and the Style Builder for comprehensive style design and
efficient style editing.
Professional design surface
Design high-quality Web sites and applications with a
state-of-the-art, professional toolset and design surface that
combines power with ease of use, allowing direct manipulation of
margins and padding throughout the document.
High-quality CSS rendering engine
Produce a faithful representation of the look of the final
browser-rendered page with a powerful CSS rendering engine which
allows design decisions to be made with confidence
Standard or Quirks rendering
Render pages in Standard or Quirks mode depending on the doctype
setting of the page for maximum browser compatibility.
Site and page templates
Improve initial design productivity by starting with professionally
designed expression web templates that are fully XHTML and CSS
compliant
Tag property grid
Retrieve and set all valid properties for a selected tag. Access all
the power of the HTML language through one palette.
Expression Web Templates
Extensive CSS Formatting:
Intelligent CSS style creation
Focus on the design process and let Expression Web take care of CSS
style creation, avoiding repetitive style creation throughout your
site.
Drag-and-drop style management
Try out designs with local in-page CSS styles and then easily migrate
styles to a central repository using drag and drop.
Intelligent style renaming
Rename styles instantly without find and replace with locally stored
site metadata recording all style usage.
CSS reporting
View detailed reports on CSS style usage across sites in the Results
pane to effectively manage the deployment of consistently styled
pages.
CSS design time preferences
Set preferences for exactly how CSS code is generated throughout an
application to have complete control over Expression Web code
generation.
Rich Data Presentation:
Customized views of XML data
Design customized views of industry-standard XML data using powerful
drag-and-drop tools to quickly achieve visualizations that conform to
the CSS site design.
XSL Transform support (XSLT)
Present data using XSLT, with support for editing views on live XML
data to give designers full flexibility to represent XML data the way
they choose.
Powerful data manipulation
Fine-tune the raw data presented on the page with tools to sort,
filter, and apply condition formatting.
RSS Feeds
Retrieve and present XML data from live RSS feeds on your site, styled
to match the look and feel of the site.
Expression Web Templates
Powerful Server technology:
Powerful Server Technology
Take full advantage of the power of ASP.NET 2.0 with integrated
support for server and user controls, and no code data binding, to
transform your sites into dynamic, interactive Web applications. Use
the controls toolbox, properties grid, and on-control “action menus”
to quickly insert and configure ASP.NET controls. Write ASP.NET markup
quickly with IntelliSense and tag completion in the integrated design
and code surface, and update your sites more efficiently with the
control of ASP.NET Master Pages. Microsoft Expression Web Hosting.
Create and edit ASP.NET pages
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 the
ease of use of drag-and-drop controls.
Master Pages
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. Nested Master Pages allow complex designs to be
maintained.
ASP.NET controls
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.
ASP.NET Development Server
Preview ASP.NET pages locally, without the need for a full Web server,
with the ASP.NET Development Server, allowing design decisions to be
made with full reference to the page’s data.
No code data binding
Use a drag-and-drop interface that accesses the power of ASP.NET with
no coding requirement to visually bind data sources to controls on the
design surface. Expression Web Hosting
Microsoft Expression Web FAQ:
Who is the target audience for Expression Web?
Expression Web (formerly Expression Web Designer) is targeted at the
professional designers who are building standards-based XHTML Web
sites and applications.
Does Expression Web work on all browsers?
Yes. Expression Web supports XHTML and CSS standards and will enable
Web designers to easily build browser-agnostic sites. Expression Web
also incorporates rich accessibility support to help build the most
accessible, standards-conformant Web sites possible.
How does Expression Web compare to Microsoft Office FrontPage® 2003
and Visual Studio as a Web design/development tool?
Expression Web is a new product for professional Web designers that
combines the best of both FrontPage and Visual Studio technologies in
a professional designer user interface for creating XHTML, CSS, XML,
XSLT, and ASP.NET 2.0. Where appropriate, the user interface and
features of Expression Web and Visual Studio are identical (such as
for ASP.NET control properties).
How does Expression Web provide an enhanced user experience on the
Web?
Expression Web provides Web professionals with everything they need to
build attractive, high-quality Web sites using HTML, DHTML, CSS, and
XHTML. With Expression Web, professional designers can easily take
advantage of the best of dynamic Web-site design, enabling users to
quickly and efficiently design, develop, and maintain standards-based
Web applications with seamless integration with ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual
Studio 2005.
How does Expression Web reduce development and design complexity?
Expression Web provides seamless integration with Visual Studio 2005
and ASP.NET 2.0, enabling designers and developers to interact using
products that they are most comfortable with. Designers can easily lay
out XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and basic dynamic functionality using
Expression Web and take advantage of many ASP.NET 2.0–specific
features like Master Pages for templating, and drag and drop controls.
The project can then be handed over to developers using Visual Studio
2005, enabling them to extend the functionality through advanced
server-side code and business logic.
