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Web Page Editor: Microsoft Expression Web
Author: Santana Bhatnagar
These days, if you come across a design application that hasn’t been developed by Adobe, then there is a high possibility that you have found the Elixir of Life!
These days, if you come across a design application that hasn’t been developed by Adobe, then there is a high possibility that you have found the Elixir of Life!
Such is the market share of Adobe in design applications However, all that might just change as Microsoft, the big daddy of software, plans to capture the design applications market with its own suite of programs called Microsoft Expression Studio. This suite contains Expression Web, Expression Blend, Expression Design, and Expression Media. Web is a web editor, Blend is a user interface design tool, Design is vector and raster graphic design tool, and Media is a digital asset management tool.
When Microsoft announced its intentions to enter the market for design applications, it was greeted with frowns from the designers’ community. But it became clear that Microsoft was serious about design applications when they launched Expression Web earlier this year.
Expression Web is the successor to FrontPage, Microsoft’s much-maligned HTML editor. With Expression Web, Microsoft has tried to transform its casual web page editor into a professional application. Since its first appearance, this application has been considerably refined and could actually impress the users.
As mentioned earlier, Microsoft has killed off its old HTML editor, FrontPage, which hardly ever managed to generate standards-compliant files. On the other hand, its successor, Expression Web meets and surpasses every standard. This HTML editor offers many functions that will be useful for beginners as well as professionals in website designing.
Expression Web is completely dependent on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for the layout and provides several CSS templates. This makes it easy for even beginners to make an entry into the Web world in no time.
With Expression Web, even the XML files that are required for implementing RSS feeds can be elegantly integrated into websites and edited in the source text. It can import numerous Frameset, CSS, and Dreamweaver templates (DWT files). However, if you want to use PHP, then you will have to stick with the popular Adobe Dreamweaver for the present. Microsoft does not even mention PHP in the help section and relies on its own product—ASP.Net. Support for PHP will be available only after the next upgrade, which is supposed to hit the market early next year.
Web pages can be edited in the draft mode or you can directly edit the source code. For more efficient editing, the syntax can be highlighted in different colors. To make design work easy, Expression Web displays the source code in a structured manner with just one click. The compatibility check knocks off any errors on the website. Blunders such as incorrect or missing end tags are thus immediately caught. A wizard sifts through the source code and deletes superfluous comments and spaces—this help compress the code to some extent.
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When Microsoft announced its intentions to enter the market for design applications, it was greeted with frowns from the designers’ community. But it became clear that Microsoft was serious about design applications when they launched Expression Web earlier this year.
Expression Web is the successor to FrontPage, Microsoft’s much-maligned HTML editor. With Expression Web, Microsoft has tried to transform its casual web page editor into a professional application. Since its first appearance, this application has been considerably refined and could actually impress the users.
As mentioned earlier, Microsoft has killed off its old HTML editor, FrontPage, which hardly ever managed to generate standards-compliant files. On the other hand, its successor, Expression Web meets and surpasses every standard. This HTML editor offers many functions that will be useful for beginners as well as professionals in website designing.
Expression Web is completely dependent on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for the layout and provides several CSS templates. This makes it easy for even beginners to make an entry into the Web world in no time.
With Expression Web, even the XML files that are required for implementing RSS feeds can be elegantly integrated into websites and edited in the source text. It can import numerous Frameset, CSS, and Dreamweaver templates (DWT files). However, if you want to use PHP, then you will have to stick with the popular Adobe Dreamweaver for the present. Microsoft does not even mention PHP in the help section and relies on its own product—ASP.Net. Support for PHP will be available only after the next upgrade, which is supposed to hit the market early next year.
Web pages can be edited in the draft mode or you can directly edit the source code. For more efficient editing, the syntax can be highlighted in different colors. To make design work easy, Expression Web displays the source code in a structured manner with just one click. The compatibility check knocks off any errors on the website. Blunders such as incorrect or missing end tags are thus immediately caught. A wizard sifts through the source code and deletes superfluous comments and spaces—this help compress the code to some extent.
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