Microsoft Expression Web Designer 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.”

Expression replaces the problematic FrontPage that really was a editor on its own, not following any standards but quite easy to use.

It provides users with a more standard-based WYSIWYG editor that adheres to web standards but, yet allows you to be creative at the same time. It houses surface tools that allows users to create very modern CSS page layouts. There’s ASP.Net 2.0 server support so your pages can be as dynamic as you want them to be. Built in functionality allows you to read and edit XML on a WYSIWYG editor. It’s also packed with numerous optimization tools such as cross browser compatibility.

Microsoft is offering a free trial now so go ahead and try it out for yourself. I for one am not that impressed with Expression. Looks and feels like a bad copy of Dreamweaver to me. But give it your own test drive and let me know what you think.

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