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Product Features
- Expression Studio 4 Web Professional combines Expression Web 4, Expression Encoder 4, and Expression Design 4
- Sophisticated tools give you precise control over layout and formatting
- Supports both standard and HD video encoding with easy-to-use presets, or set your own encoding options
- Imports and exports a wide variety of standard file formats, including PSD, XAML, and PNG
- Professional code editor makes your editing and debugging quicker and easier
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Product Description
Product Description
Microsoft Expression Web 4 gives you the tools you need to produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites, with built-in support for today’s Web standards, sophisticated CSS design capabilities, and visual diagnostic tools. Whether you work with PHP, HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP.NET or ASP.NET AJAX, Expression Web makes it fast to create and maintain exceptional Web sites. With a professional code editor, visual & CSS diagnostic tools, cross-browser debugging features, broad Web standards support, and SEO compatibility reports, Expression Web makes it easy to create modern standards-based Web sites.
4. Broad support for Industry-Standard Technologies
 Powerful vector drawing and editing tools for creating compelling graphic designs and illustrations. Click here for a larger image  Quickly encode and insert high-quality WMV, VC-1 and H.264 Silverlight video into your Web site. Click here for a larger image  Support for a broad range of scripting, server-side technologies, and Web standards. |
Create standards-based Web sites faster and easier with Expression Web
With a professional code editor, rich design surface, visual and CSS diagnostic tools, cross-browser debugging features, and broad Web-standards support, Expression Web makes it faster and easier than ever to create modern standards-based Web sites.
Capture & prepare high-quality Web video with Expression Encoder
Creating and streaming video has never been easier than with Expression Encoder. Create high quality video for your Web site, YouTube, or handheld device.
Create & edit Web graphics with Expression Design
Create compelling graphic designs and illustrations with Expression Design. Integrate vector artwork and bitmap images in the same document to create hybrid compositions that you can import in part or in whole into Expression Web.
Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Web Professional also includes Expression Encoder 4 and Expression Design 4.
Expression Encoder 4
With Microsoft Expression Encoder, you can import and encode video files, produce live webcasts, enhance media with watermarks and advertising, and publish with Microsoft Silverlight.
Expression Design 4
Microsoft Expression Design 4 is the perfect companion to Expression Web. Create sophisticated assets with their fidelity maintained throughout the entire designer-developer workflow.
Top Features
1. Three professional applications for one low price
Expression Studio 4 Web Professional includes a complete set of professional design and development tools for creating modern standards-based Web sites, streaming video, and Web graphics. It includes three professional applications that work together: Expression Web, Expression Encoder, and Expression Design - all for one great price!
2. Create Professional Graphics for Your Site
Powerful vector drawing and editing tools in the included copy of Expression Design let you explore new artistic possibilities and create compelling graphic designs and illustrations. Integrate vector artwork and bitmap images in the same document to create hybrid compositions that you can import in part or in whole into Expression Web. Use Expression Design's sophisticated slicing capabilities to create web-ready graphics.
3. Encode Silverlight video for Web streaming
Quickly encode and insert high-quality WMV, VC-1 and H.264 Silverlight video into your Web site with a wide range of encoding and transcoding features in the included copy of Expression Encoder.
4. Broad support for Industry-Standard Technologies
With support for a broad range of scripting and server-side technologies, Expression Web provides the flexibility you need. Expression Web supports PHP, HTML/XHTML, XML/XSLT, CSS, JavaScript, ASP.NET or ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, Flash, Windows Media, and Photoshop, as well as interoperability with Microsoft Visual Studio and Expression Studio.
5. Broad Web Standards Support
Built-in support for today's modern Web standards makes it easy to optimize your sites for accessibility and cross-browser compatibility. Choose any schema you want HTML, XHTML, Strict/Transitional/Frameset and CSS 1.0, 2.0, or 2.1; Expression Web will help you build appropriate code with a compatibility checker that highlights non-conforming elements.
Product Description
Microsoft Expression Studio Web Pro 40 English DVD NHF00006 Software Design Media Software
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
If, like me, you previously used Microsoft FrontPage 2003 or older versions that preceded this web editing tool, you have to learn some new tricks since Expression Studio 4 Web seems to use a different approach (such as Dynamic Webpage Template, among other things). Once you're acquainted with the new approach, all should be fine but people switching over from the most straightforward FrontPage could find the initial experience a bit discomforting. I was also a bit disappointed that some of the features in FrontPage were missing from this next generation product assumed to be a superset. I wish Microsoft retained everything of FrontPage but provided an option to use in the Expression Studio 4 Web mode, in which case everybody would be happy, but this approach doesn't seem to be the way Microsoft do things.
1 of 10 people found the following review helpful
I purchased this program because I was and still am confident it has a lot of capabilities. However sofar I can't quite get what I want or I don't know how to do that. I must be the latter because givin all the tools and there functions this program just got to be good. The amount of toolbars compares to the the amount of toolbars in e.a. MS Word, Excel. I take I have to do some research on the program so I can create the website(s) the I want.
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70 of 72 people found the following review helpful
Website Development with Expression Web 4
26 Oct 2010
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My background is straight HTML/CSS development as well as FrontPage 2003 development. I was tasked with the objective of converting a problematic 5000 line FP website to something easy to use and compatible with my website provider. (Since FP has lost support from MS the provider also is withdrawing support.) Unfortunately, MS offers no conversion path. (Incredibly short sighted!!!!!!) I was on my own to get rid of any code that used "FP extensions" as well as various syntax problems from FP. (For example, uppercase FP HTML tokens are non-standard.)
Once all of the non-standard FP code was deleted or modified, I was able to import the website into one of the standard Expression Web CSS templates. From there everything worked very smoothly. Code validation is built-in with many ways of reporting status or errors. Pages can be previewed in 3 ways: a) Directly in the EW4 designer; b) Hitting a function to call Internet Explorer; or c) using their SP or SuperPreview mode. This last options allows side by side comparison of your page with two browsers (IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox, etc.) as well as on any resolution screen.
A really nice feature is that you can move or delete most of the windows and then later click "Panels, Reset Workspace Layout" to get things back to normal. Another feature is its HTML format command.
Publishing can be done through FTP and the website provider no longer needs FP Extensions installed. EW4 produces code that can be run anywhere. It integrates with PHP (available free from 3rd party), and you can test PHP code by launching Internet Explorer.
Minor criticisms: you have to save your edited source before launching IE. By comparison, the old Macromedia HTML development editor would transparently make a temporary copy and then launch IE. So if you want to "fool around" safely, you must manually make a copy to "play" with and leave the original alone. Another item is that there is no HTML tag editor. Intellisense is nice but it would also be nice to be able to see all of the options of say the <TABLE> tag, or have the editor determine the size of an image.
It's an excellent product and I would recommend it.
Once all of the non-standard FP code was deleted or modified, I was able to import the website into one of the standard Expression Web CSS templates. From there everything worked very smoothly. Code validation is built-in with many ways of reporting status or errors. Pages can be previewed in 3 ways: a) Directly in the EW4 designer; b) Hitting a function to call Internet Explorer; or c) using their SP or SuperPreview mode. This last options allows side by side comparison of your page with two browsers (IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox, etc.) as well as on any resolution screen.
A really nice feature is that you can move or delete most of the windows and then later click "Panels, Reset Workspace Layout" to get things back to normal. Another feature is its HTML format command.
Publishing can be done through FTP and the website provider no longer needs FP Extensions installed. EW4 produces code that can be run anywhere. It integrates with PHP (available free from 3rd party), and you can test PHP code by launching Internet Explorer.
Minor criticisms: you have to save your edited source before launching IE. By comparison, the old Macromedia HTML development editor would transparently make a temporary copy and then launch IE. So if you want to "fool around" safely, you must manually make a copy to "play" with and leave the original alone. Another item is that there is no HTML tag editor. Intellisense is nice but it would also be nice to be able to see all of the options of say the <TABLE> tag, or have the editor determine the size of an image.
It's an excellent product and I would recommend it.
27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Great alternative to Dreamweaver
19 Nov 2010
I use this product mostly to modify complex CSS layouts. I've found it to be a nice, intuitive tool.
This is a great alternative to Dreamweaver. Expression Web is $250 cheaper than Dreamweaver and at least as good for what I do. I'm glad Microsoft has provided me an alternative to Adobe's overpriced cash cow.
I'm not a full-time web designer who uses this 40 hours a week, so I can't speak to how it compares to Dreamweaver in that arena.
I haven't noticed a problem with slow start time (how many times do you restart it during a day, anyway?) I have also not noticed any instability. I'm running it in Windows 7.
This is a great alternative to Dreamweaver. Expression Web is $250 cheaper than Dreamweaver and at least as good for what I do. I'm glad Microsoft has provided me an alternative to Adobe's overpriced cash cow.
I'm not a full-time web designer who uses this 40 hours a week, so I can't speak to how it compares to Dreamweaver in that arena.
I haven't noticed a problem with slow start time (how many times do you restart it during a day, anyway?) I have also not noticed any instability. I'm running it in Windows 7.
41 of 45 people found the following review helpful
Frustrating program.
9 Mar 2011
We used FrontPage since last century and it was basically fine for straight forward web pages. Keeping things simple for the average person fluent in the basic type programs, Office, Photoshop etc. we created an in-house front for our business, without much headache.
Since our service providers were generating problems with serving FP, they recommended to change to ExpressionWeb, also from Microsoft.
We downloaded a trial copy from Microsoft and tried it out and with a relatively short learning curve, straightened out some simple issues and used it for the two month trial period. And it worked ok although a little buggy we could live with it. A bit cumbersome and more complicated than I would like it to be. But usable.
Then we purchased the program itself [Expression studio 4 Web professional] and figured all was dandy. But were surprised to come up against a lot of incomprehensible new problems, bizarre issues that completely messes up half of our pages -that number in the hundreds.
Table widths, column widths, fonts, all got seriously messed up in the transition from the trial program to the purchased version. Now if we were doing nothing but screw around with ExpressionWeb all day, I'd probably buy a how-to book and figure it out within a few weeks. But I have other work to do and this monster is trying to swallow me whole. It has been several days fighting it and I am clueless as to how to repair the problems it creates for me.
Ome example is our table widths getting out of whack. What normally is previously figured as an 800px width table becomes much much wider. Dragging the borders manually, typing in the numbers in the dialogue boxes, checking them in the html... its no good and the program has something in it that just messes up its own parameters. Another is that the purchased version is so slow with typing that there has to be something seriously wrong. Another problem, both in the demo and purchased versions is that Ctrl-Z may step backwards from the moment you opened the program! Not just one step backward but the entire changes you made for that session. So be careful to save all the time because you may by old habit press ctrl-Z and lose your entire session.
I think this program has been made way to complicated and I am sure if, as I say, you become a novice it works great, but in the current version is just to cumbersome and lacks simplicity and simple easy to use logic in the interface. If I type the table width to be "800" and the columns spaced equally, it should just do that. And not do something else.
I have this opinion that a today's web page program should be as simple as an easy to use word processing document, but this program is just giving me a hard time and no sir, I don't like it.
1. I don't like that the demo was better than the version we spent money on.
2. I feel that Microsoft should have an "import from Frontpage" option where the program cleans out the Frontpage incompatibility issues.
Since our service providers were generating problems with serving FP, they recommended to change to ExpressionWeb, also from Microsoft.
We downloaded a trial copy from Microsoft and tried it out and with a relatively short learning curve, straightened out some simple issues and used it for the two month trial period. And it worked ok although a little buggy we could live with it. A bit cumbersome and more complicated than I would like it to be. But usable.
Then we purchased the program itself [Expression studio 4 Web professional] and figured all was dandy. But were surprised to come up against a lot of incomprehensible new problems, bizarre issues that completely messes up half of our pages -that number in the hundreds.
Table widths, column widths, fonts, all got seriously messed up in the transition from the trial program to the purchased version. Now if we were doing nothing but screw around with ExpressionWeb all day, I'd probably buy a how-to book and figure it out within a few weeks. But I have other work to do and this monster is trying to swallow me whole. It has been several days fighting it and I am clueless as to how to repair the problems it creates for me.
Ome example is our table widths getting out of whack. What normally is previously figured as an 800px width table becomes much much wider. Dragging the borders manually, typing in the numbers in the dialogue boxes, checking them in the html... its no good and the program has something in it that just messes up its own parameters. Another is that the purchased version is so slow with typing that there has to be something seriously wrong. Another problem, both in the demo and purchased versions is that Ctrl-Z may step backwards from the moment you opened the program! Not just one step backward but the entire changes you made for that session. So be careful to save all the time because you may by old habit press ctrl-Z and lose your entire session.
I think this program has been made way to complicated and I am sure if, as I say, you become a novice it works great, but in the current version is just to cumbersome and lacks simplicity and simple easy to use logic in the interface. If I type the table width to be "800" and the columns spaced equally, it should just do that. And not do something else.
I have this opinion that a today's web page program should be as simple as an easy to use word processing document, but this program is just giving me a hard time and no sir, I don't like it.
1. I don't like that the demo was better than the version we spent money on.
2. I feel that Microsoft should have an "import from Frontpage" option where the program cleans out the Frontpage incompatibility issues.
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