Re: MS Expression Web Designer
- From: "Rob Giordano \(Crash\)" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:25:21 -0700
They say there will be a "reasonably" priced upgrade from FP to EWD...dunno
what reasonable means though.
I like EWD too..pretty cool.
"xfile" <cou-cou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Hi,
|
| Has anyone tested Expression Web Designer?
|
| I've used it for two days so far (working on a live site) and found it, as
| claimed, is easy to use and retains most functions of FrontPage in
addition
| to the new ones.
|
| It is also different than Visual Web Developer 2005 Express edition which
is
| buggy and resource draining.
|
| Although there are some small bugs and problems (consider it is a
community
| review version), the overall performance is pretty stable - knock 3 times.
|
| One particular thing that I am very pleased about this edition, and that
is
| it will not force you to go through and correct all "possible coding
errors"
| (as VWD would) before allowing to view a page in design view.
|
| Why is this important? Yes, we made many mistakes during developing Web
| pages (especially for those like myself who are not professional
| programmers), such as not inserting "alt attributes" for images, and
putting
| incorrect attributes (e.g. marginwidth) in wrong places - and many of
those
| are done by our ex-best friend - FrontPage.
|
| But why do we have to correct each of them (image how many of them if one
| had used FP for developing Web pages throughout the past years) before we
| can even see a page in the Design View? That requirement is totally
| ridiculous.
|
| For those who are concerned the discontinued of FrontPage, I'd encourage
you
| to download and try Expression Web Designer.
|
| Once thing that I am not so happy about the current community version
though
| is about sending web pages through Outlook and the lack of "mail merge"
| capability as in Word.
|
| When I try to email web page within EWD, Outlook automatically block the
| page as "unsafe" attachment. This will not happen if using FrontPage.
|
| And when I work with FP 2003 for mail merging newsletters to subscribers,
I
| had to save it to a local copy and open with Word 2003 and perform mail
| merger.
|
| I would expect this can be improved with EWD so that we can use mail merge
| directly with EWD.
|
| Finally, does anyone have any inside information about the final release
| date of EWD and its possible pricing?
|
| That's all for now and hope this helps.
|
|
.
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