Microsoft Expression Web 2

Microsoft's Expression Web 2 is their new web page design tool that replaces it FrontPage software. It has an editing screen that toggles between WYSIWYG, code-based, and split views of the page you're editing. New for version 2 is built-in support for PHP pages, the ability to generate a GIF, JPEG, or PNG image for a Web page from a Photoshop PSD file, and the ability to change the properties of Flash and Windows Media files from its own menus and preview the videos in the WYSIWYG editor without opening a browser.

Its features include:

• Schema:
• Default setting is XHTML 1.0 Transitional–conformant.
• User can select settings to support all combinations of HTML/XHTML/Strict/Transitional/Frameset and CSS 1.0/2.0/2.1.
• Browser-specific schemas available also.
• Real-time standards validation flags violations based on the chosen schema so that corrections can be made as they're inserted.
• An accessibility checker verifies conformity to accessibility standards for screen readers with support for W3C Content Accessibility Guidelines and Section 508 standards.
• CSS-Based Layout
• Provides a state-of-the-art, professional toolset and design surface for CSS-based web site and application, allowing direct manipulation of margins and padding throughout the document.
• Produces a faithful representation of the look of the final browser-rendered page with its CSS rendering engine.
• Render pages in Standard or Quirks mode depending on the doctype setting of the page for maximum browser compatibility.
• Provides professionally designed templates that are fully XHTML and CSS compliant.
• A tag property grid provides all valid properties for a selected tag.
• CSS Formatting
• Intelligent CSS style creation lets the user focus on the design process while Expression Web 2 takes care of CSS style creation, avoiding repetitive style creation throughout the site.
• CSS styles can be selected from or added to a drag-and-drop menu, allowing for in-page experimentation and easy application of different styles.
• Rename styles instantly without find and replace with locally stored site metadata recording all style usage.
• Detailed reports on CSS style usage allow for the production of consistently styled pages.
• Set preferences for exactly how CSS code is generated throughout an application to have complete control over Expression Web code generation.
• XML Data Presentation
• Build and format views on industry-standard XML data using powerful, WYSIWYG XSLT design tools.
• Create customized views of XML data using drag-and-drop tools to quickly achieve visualizations that conform to the CSS site design.
• 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.
• Fine-tune the raw data presented on the page with tools to sort, filter, and apply condition formatting.
• Retrieve and present XML data from live RSS feeds on your site, styled to match the look and feel of the site.
• ASP.NET 3.5
• Provides support for the ASP.NET 3.5 standard with easy-to-use drag-and-drop controls.
• Server-rendered ASP.NET Master Pages helps maintain the proper look of your site as well as allowing easy site-wide changes.
• Access ASP.NET controls and their associated properties with the same power as Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 but rendered within the design surface of Expression Web.
• The ASP.NET Development Server allows for the previous of Preview ASP.NET pages locally, without the need for a full web server.
• 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.

The following products qualify for the Upgrade version:

• Licensed copy of an earlier version of Expression Web
OR
• Adobe Creative Suite - any version
• Adobe/Macromedia Flash or Director - any version
• Adobe/Macromedia Dreamweaver - any version
• Adobe GoLive - any version
• Microsoft Office - any version
• Microsoft FrontPage - any version
• Quark QuarkXPress - any version

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