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Microsoft Expression Web (formerly Expression Web Designer) gives you all the tools you'll need to produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites the way you want them. Take advantage of the best of dynamic Web site design, enabling you to design, develop, and maintain exceptional standards-based Web sites.

Expression Web is a professional design tool that helps you create and work with Standards-based Web sites, Sophisticated CSS-based layouts, Extensive CSS formatting and management, Rich data presentation, and Powerful ASP.NET 2.0-based technology.

Microsoft Expression Web design software supports XHTML, XML, CSS, and W3C accessibility standards; integrates with Expression Studio and Visual Studio.

Expression Web is Microsoft?s successor to FrontPage. It?s part of the Expression Studio, which also includes Expression Design, Expression Media and Expression Blend, but is currently the only full product released. It lines up fair and square against Adobe Dreamweaver but is more standards-based than the ex-Macromedia product.

Expression Web is designed to make the most of ASP.Net but is happy to work with straight XHTML and is at home with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). In fact, given Microsoft?s history with FrontPage, it?s quite a departure. FrontPage was more of a hand-holder and was, in some ways, reluctant to show HTML to the web designer. Instead it preferred to steer them towards a DTP way of working. The new program works by default with a two-pane, graphics and code paradigm (as Dreamweaver does) that tightly relates hard code to objects on the Page so you can see the results of your edits as soon as you make them ? WYSIWYG as some like to say.