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.
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.
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.
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.
