Microsoft Expression Web

Microsoft Expression Web is the latest web designing product released by Microsoft. It is the replacement for FrontPage which used to be in the Office suite. Expression Web is a part of the Microsoft Expression suite and was released in December 2006.

Expression Web has complete support for famous web standards CSS, XML, ASP.NET and XHTML. It allows web designers to design sleek websites easily if they have a little knowledge of HTML and CSS. However, most controls and junk from FrontPage have been removed and replaced with better controls. The main screen is similar to that of FrontPage 2003, though the screen is split to show the WYSIWYG view and code view by default. When anything is inserted through the WYSIWYG view, Expression Web automatically converts it to CSS based code instead of the ordinary HTML tag code.

Expression Web gives much more power to designers and will surely take back customers whom Dreamweaver took from FrontPage. More Dreamweaver users are expected to switch soon, as Expresison Web is more appealing with sophisticated CSS, ASP.NET 2 and HTML support from ground-up.