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Microsoft Expression Web 2 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide
Microsoft Expression Web offers a powerful array of visual tools for creating great looking sites while fully supporting Web-based standards. Expression Web makes it easy for designers to quickly design cool sites with tools that feel familiar. Thanks to Expression Web's underlying standards, the files can then be passed to developers who can code the site in the development tools they prefer. This back and forth without designers having to touch the code unless they want to makes this a powerful program. In Expression Web 2, Microsoft has added support for PHP backed sites and made it easy to work with PHP. Other new features include: Silverlight support and new editing capabilities for Flash SWF and Windows Media files. I...
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October 16th, 2009
My level of web development is pretty basic so I bought this book to help me migrate from using FrontPage to Web Expression. I found the chapters to be well laid out and full of step by step examples. It was useful to go to the publisher’s website to get copies of the files used in the examples. However, I found the graphics (screen shots) in the book to be very frustrating. First of all they are too small. I often needed to get out a magnifying glass to see the details that the author was trying to demonstrate. Second, the examples are in black and white with a lot of grey shadings obscuring important text in the examples.