Microsoft Releases Expression Web Designer Preview
Posted by Jordan M. on 16 May 2006 - 12:44 · 17 comments & 10951 views
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#1 Posted by xxdesmus on 16 May 2006 - 12:54
- Glad I posted yesterday when it first came out ...
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#2 Posted by weiran on 16 May 2006 - 13:15
- I take it you have to be a beta tester to actually get it?
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#3 Posted by Ideas Man on 16 May 2006 - 13:18
- Note to all, it's been pulled until "tomorrow PST" whenever that is, so just hold off about 12 more hours I suspect and it should be good again.
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#4 Posted by Jazket on 16 May 2006 - 13:48
- Huh?
I've been using Expression for about 2 weeks by now. It's been on connect; they first released build 1001 which had a bug that it would uninstall FrontPage 2003 if you had it installed on your system. Then they released build 1004 (both CTPs) in which they have corrected the previous problem.
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#5 Posted by xxdesmus on 16 May 2006 - 14:00
- No, now it's an open CTP program. ...well it will be once it's back up.
Yeah, I was a tester for this also. It's a great program, definitely HUGE improvement over Frontpage. Everyone should give it a fair look.
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#6 Posted by daniel_rh on 16 May 2006 - 14:10
- I'm confuse, This Expression Web Designer is not the same program Office Sharepoint Designer (In Office 2007)??
Last edited by daniel_rh on 16 May 2006 - 14:16
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#7 Posted by mohan_168 on 16 May 2006 - 14:28
- Works great. Found a few bugs and reported them. First build did un-install FrontPage 2003 as they had mentioned. Latest build 4 works slight better than previous one.
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#8 Posted by Stew Gilray on 16 May 2006 - 15:44
- The build I downloaded from MS, won't install, says it fails extraction?!
Have seen this mentioned elsewhere, but in connection with platform requirements...
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#9 Posted by littleneutrino on 16 May 2006 - 17:18
- I have been useing this software formore than a month now since the beta was originally sent to me and it is nice but dreamweaver is better than it if you want to use an IDE for writing your websites. i would still prefer either Notpad or Microsoft Word.
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#10 Posted by McG on 16 May 2006 - 17:51
- Is this like a new FrontPage?
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#11 Posted by Audhumla on 16 May 2006 - 20:50
- This isn't a WYSIWYG editor is it?
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#12 Posted by MaceX on 16 May 2006 - 23:20
- I don't understand why Microsoft has three different WYSIWYG programs:
Visual Web Developer 2005
Expression Web Designer
Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007.
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#12.1 Posted by AltecXP on 18 May 2006 - 02:03
- I think Visual Web Developer 2005 is for the serious coders, Expression Web Designer is for those that want to make more personal pages, or are just getting into design, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is more fore pople that wel....just wanna manage Sharepoint sites.
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#13 Posted by fpd on 17 May 2006 - 10:33
- Will this eventually replace Visual Web Developer?
On May 15, Microsoft announced the first CTP (Community Technology Preview) of its Expression Web Designer, formerly known by its code name of Quartz.
Microsoft offered CTP releases of the Expression Web Designer's companion products in the Expression suite—Expression Graphic Designer, code-named Acrylic, and Expression Interactive Designer, code-named Sparkle—but developers were left waiting for Quartz. The Expression suite is Microsoft's tool set aimed at designers.
The company had showed the Expression Web Designer technology at various stages of its development at both its Professional Developers Conference in October and at its Mix 06 conference in March.
Wayne Smith, Microsoft's product manager for Expression Web Designer, said the main focus of this CTP is to demonstrate compliance with popular Web standards such as XHTML, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and XML, or "all the standards people are using on the Web."