Comments on: Microsoft Expression Web 2 – a quick review

By: Stefan Mischook

Stefan Mischook — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:20:27 +0000

Not as easily it does silverlight video .. but you still could do it.

By: sourav

sourav — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:54:32 +0000

hi does it support flash,video files

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:44:31 +0000

@Ryan
If you are looking at making the sites more interactive, I recommend you take a look at Silverlight, and if you are familiar with .NET you should look at the .NET framework and the use of AJAX.

Good luck!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:47:21 +0000

I’ve been learning web design on the W3schools site for a few months. I would like to get more involved in building sites, mainly for personal/business.

What would be best to learn from? DW or EW? My main focus is on making the sites interactive.

Thanks.

By: Stefan Mischook

Stefan Mischook — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:29:13 +0000

I cannot speak to ASP.net and Web Expression – I plan on looking at from the perspective of a php developer in the future though.

That said, one thing Microsoft has a history of doing well is making wysiwyg software packages. The point-and-click tools are fabulous.

In terms of code completion … I cannot say.

Stefan

By: Mike Hale

Mike Hale — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:19:58 +0000

I am currently a student in college and I’m happy at the amount of programming and scripting languages that we’ve had. I’m even happier with the quality of instruction that I’ve had which is not always consistently high at “trade level” colleges, even when they are accredited. However, I’m confident enough with what I’ve learned to step out into the work force.

My school, as a Microsoft training vendor, has made Expressions Studio available. I’m about to take my last programming class focusing on advanced features of ASP.net and the instructor is essentially treating this as a capstone. He asked our input concerning what we’d like to see in this course. I’ve briefly explored Expressions Web 2 and learned a little about how it works ASP.net, so I recommended we spend some time going over it.

Anyone have any recommendations about Expressions Web 2 as a development tool, especially in regards to ASP.net? More specifically: do you have any experiences or suggestions that would be helpful in understanding how Expressions Web 2 and ASP.net work together and what would be useful to focus on in a class?

(BTW Stefan: your articles on Web Business has really reinforced and encouraged my desire to form my own Web/Graphic Design Team. Thank You.)

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Sun, 17 May 2009 03:04:02 +0000

Joshua,

Regarding your question above “How are you guys using this to transmit your files to your server or web host?” you don’t have to use Expression Web 2 to transfer the files you produce with it, just use any FTP client that supports FTP over SSL to connect to your web host or server and browse to the files you generated with Expression Web 2.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:36:20 +0000

All the reviews I read about Expression Web 2 before buying it and nobody ever caught the fact that this doesn’t support FTP over SSL. How are you guys using this to transmit your files to your server or web host?

By: Stefan Mischook

Stefan Mischook — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:54:55 +0000

Hi Julie,

Dreamweaver CS4 (the latest version as of 2009) has removed its’ support of ASP.net. So that would suggest to me that the answer to your question is no. You can read about Dreamweaver CS4:

http://www.killersites.com/magazine/2008/dreamweaver-cs4-review/

It probably makes sense to look at Expression Web if your backend is ASP.net. Much in the same way, if you were working with ColdFusion (Adobe’s asp.net) it would make sense to look to Dreamweaver.

Stefan

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:55:21 +0000

Is there a workflow solution for designing in Dreamweaver and implementing in asp.net with the apparent ease that the reviewer mentions for Expression Web. We are a Microsoft based backend and would like to continue to use Dreamweaver for the frontend design. Is there a filter? A third party solution? Or does it have to be EW to accommodate the .net features/ease the backend programmers need? Any thoughts would be appreciated.