Microsoft Expression Web Beta 1
Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 06 September 2006 - 11:02 · 16 comments & 9580 views
Thanks CoolCatBad...Microsoft® Expression® Web is a new designer-focused product that provides powerful tools you need to produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites the way you want them.

Notes:
  • Install Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 before installing Expression Web.
  • Uninstall all Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 1 programs from your computer; however, Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh programs can remain on your computer when installing Expression Web Beta 1.
Download: Microsoft Expression Web Beta 1
News source: Neowin BPN


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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by sgtLENIN on 06 Sep 2006 - 11:12
WTH
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by lerum on 06 Sep 2006 - 11:55
I've got it, looks quite nice however I'm still using dreamweaver
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by SlimShady on 06 Sep 2006 - 12:17
W3C standards or IE standards?
Quote this comment #3.1 Posted by StuRReaL on 06 Sep 2006 - 13:52
Isn't this the rehash or frontpage? if it is then its gonna be IE Standards, i'm gonna give this a go see what its like always nice to try out new stuff
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by Havin_it on 06 Sep 2006 - 13:49
From what I saw of the previous preview release, although the code is a *million* times cleaner than Frontpage code, the app still makes heavy assumptions of the user being in a Frontpage/IIS/IE environment. (Hardly surprising, right enough...) Not that it'll be unusable if you aren't in such environment, but there'll be a degree of redundancy.

Hopefully it'll be extensible enough to have plenty of addons made by third-parties to support developing for different server technologies, but that'll largely depend how MS license any APIs that may be needed to write effective plugins.

Even if not, it is a very nice coding tool, and I wouldn't turn my nose up at a free copy
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by g33kb0y on 06 Sep 2006 - 14:14
This article may interest some of you:
Can Microsoft Expression Touch Dreamweaver?
Quote this comment #5.1 Posted by sbrum on 06 Sep 2006 - 16:38
Quote - g33kb0y said @ #5
This article may interest some of you:
Can Microsoft Expression Touch Dreamweaver?


Nice read g33kb0y. I just installed and did a few things and I must say it is a good start for a beta. I still like Dreamweaver, but it might be because I am used to it.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by brlmedia on 06 Sep 2006 - 14:26
strange setup error during the install of this on my windowsxp pro sp2 machine, error 2711 an internal error has occured. tried 4 times, well that's why they call it a beta. anyone else have this? the previous CTP version worked fine.
Quote this comment #6.1 Posted by GAM on 06 Sep 2006 - 16:02
Error 2711: The specified Feature name ('[2]' not found in Feature table.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #7 Posted by briangw on 06 Sep 2006 - 19:30
Is this the same Expression that's been available for awhile????
Quote this comment #7.1 Posted by weenur on 06 Sep 2006 - 20:45
CTP 1 was available before. This is new.

It sure does beat the crap out of FP... as do most things, even notepad. Web Designer generates nice code, and the template system is handy. I have to say I like it more than Dreamweaver... but that's probably just because I'm used to Microsoft's UIs.

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Just dl'ed it and ran it... definitely some improvements going on. Intellisense in CSS, and the design mode renders it just as it would in browser, which it didn't in the CTP. Can't wait to play with it some more and see how much more goodies I can find.

Last edited by weenur on 07 Sep 2006 - 08:36
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #8 Posted by rbet on 07 Sep 2006 - 10:44
why does it require registration? I hate this crap.
Quote this comment #8.1 Posted by knight17 on 17 Sep 2006 - 17:14
Because Microsoft needs to make sure their registration/activation processes works as they have planned, that is the same reason why you "must" activate Vista Beta releases.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #9 Posted by CheeseCow on 10 Sep 2006 - 17:54
200MB download? Isn't that a bit much for a text editor on steroids...
Quote this comment #9.1 Posted by clonk on 12 Sep 2006 - 13:47
The trial version of Dreamweaver is a 60 MB download, with its CD / ISO being over 600 mb. This isn't ridiculous at all.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #10 Posted by Tarnum on 08 Nov 2006 - 22:00
The Microsoft Expression TV advert:

From the producer of Front Page... From the director of MS Publisher... the funniest movie of the year - Expression - Comedy of Parsing Errors. Coming soon to a screen near you!

(voices of impressed viewers)

"They mock the RFCs like no other!" - Tim Berners-Lee

"In their HTML every line is a punch line!" - Anonymous Macromedia Engineer

"They made the web colors into ethnic jokes!" - Indian Programmer

"WAR IS PEACE; FREEDOM IS WINDOWS; IGNORANCE IS WINDOWS; CSS IS HTML" - Emanuel Goldstein

"Of course Expression makes 'standards-based Web sites'. Internet Exploder 7 is a standart. IIS is a standart." - Microsoft Sales Manual.

Last edited by Tarnum on 09 Nov 2006 - 19:25
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