Editorial Review
Upgrade only; previous installation required Microsoft Expression Web gives you the tools you need to produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites the way you want them. Bring your Web sites to life with sophisticated CSS design features including visual designers. Create dynamic, interactive pages and sites that leverage the power of the Web to deliver compelling user experiences. Create CSS-based Web sites that work better across browsers, simplifying deployment and maintenance. Take advantage of the best of dynamic Web site design to design, develop, and maintain exceptional standards-based Web sites. Use the controls toolbox, properties grid, and on-control action menus to quickly insert and configure ASP.NET controls Write ASP.NET markup quickly with IntelliSense and tag completion in the integrated design and code surface Take advantage of ASP.NET 2.0 with integrated support for server and user controls & no code data binding, for dynamic, interactive Web applications
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Customer Reviews
Good, but not as easy as FrontPage 
2007-12-10
A little bit of a learning curve, but once I put down FrontPage for good, Expression became VERY easy.
Expression Web Crashes A Lot 
2007-08-30
I bought the upgrade version of Expression Web and installed it on a computer with Vista Ultimate. It crashes often. I loose work whenever it crashes if I don't save constantly. Micrsoft seems to release software before it is perfected. This causes alot of grief for people who use computers for a living. Expression Web is different from FrontPage 2003 in many ways. Expect a two week education curve in order to use EW. I've heard of problems with Expression Web and XP as well. Microsoft is getting a rather bad reputation that will lead people to buy elsewhere...
Crash-O-Matic 2007-07-31
Microsoft's decision to embrace HTML standards is good news. Unfortunately Expression Web is a poor implementation of that decision. Too many simple things are difficult to do, but more importantly it crashes remarkably often when running on Vista. It is unfortunate that Microsoft has not issued any updates to correct this obvious and significant problem.
I've reverted to FrontPage 2007-06-21
Frankly, I expect new applications to have more capabilities, not less.
I expect a smooth migration path when I upgrade within a vendor's offerings.
I expect that there will be tools that will help me modify my stuff to take full advantage of the new environment.
All of this is missing in Expression Web, sadly.
I downloaded the beta and ran it. My sites, all seven of them, rendered the same way they had with FrontPage. My business, in addition to websites, is publishing history on CD-ROMs which I sell to genealogists, historians, etc., and the CDs came out the same way in EW as they had in FP. In fact, there seemed to be virtually nothing new about Expression Web except for a new interface to learn.
I figured that the migration aids would be there when I shelled out my $$, and that once I explored all the great things in EW the veil would be lifted from my eyes and I would see the light. So I bought the product, and installed it, and found virtually no change from the beta.
The migration aids were not there. The veil remained solidly in place.
I have a business to run, and I simply do not have time to screw around learning a new interface and losing capabilities I regularly use in order to be using Microsoft's latest offering.
So, I uninstalled EW and reverted to FP 2003. Fortunately I bought the upgrade so I wasn't out a whole lot of money for this experiment.
On a positive note, I found the development team open to inquiries and generally supportive -- this was FAR BETTER than I had ever seen Microsoft perform in this regard, by the way. That openness and supportiveness alone resulted in a two star rating instead of the one star I had originally decided to give the product.
Terrific product! 2007-06-11
The only thing that keeps me from giving this 5 stars, is a bug in running this product on Vista that makes the help files not work. That made it more difficult. But this is one dynamite product. You can use templates of various kinds, or you can code things yourself, or a combination of the two. This is truly a standards-based product. The website I built with this looks great in almost every browser. Where it doesn't I know it's because of that browser treating something in a non-standard way, because I know my site adheres to internet standards.
Just don't get it 2008-04-22
I purchase this after using Frontpage 2003 for what seems forever! I've gotten good use out of FP, and it has more than paid for itself. But I'm just not sure what to make of Expression Web. I installed it, tried out some of the learning tools, but it just didn't click. I currently use a program that costs me 1/3 the price and has all the features of Expression Web. I also continue to use FP for basic stuff, especially when I need straight HTML programming.
I've gone to MS website and read some of the tutorials, checked out their forum, etc. But it seems as if MS wants me to buy all these add-on's (like Adobe does) to get the program to do what it should already do. Personally, I think I wasted my money on this, and sorry I purchased it.
Great Program! 
2008-03-20
When I first received Expression Web, I was nervous about using this program. I have only used Microsoft FrontPage in the past & my experience with web design is really very limited. It took me a few weeks to learn how to use Expression Web, but now I love it!! If you are just getting started I recommend purchasing Expression Web plain & simple and watching as many videos from the Expression Web web site as possible. Check out my web site I created at [...]. I did end up upgrading to Expression Studio & I like working with Expression Design.
Awesome! For a 1.0 version product, this beats FrontPage! 2008-02-16
I am very, very happy with Expression Web.
FrontPage is dead. And Expression Web must have been produced by a third party vendor. . .I can't believe Microsoft can publish something this good. It actually teaches how to develop and use CSS web pages.
Plus, it has asp and asp.net with database linking capabilities (which are just ahead in my learning curve).
Best of all, it came with training video produced by Total Training.
The training video is probably a fifty dollar value and really gets you up and running. You will never use FrontPage again.
After using Expression Web for several months, I uninstalled Dreamweaver which was just taking up hard disk space.
Expression Web is a version 1.0 product. I don't have any complaints about it and am still learning it. Recommendation: STRONG BUY
Microsoft Expression Web 
2008-01-21
Another Microsoft Disappointment. After using this program exclusively for the past 8 or 9 months I've gone back to the previous version, Microsoft Front Page 2003.
I love the fact that Expression Web allows one to work on CSS within the program. The split screen is a real plus, allowing the user to view both the design view and code view at once.
Expression Web does not publish properly and never has...publishing errors are the norm.
Expression Web does not handle included pages properly, and this is a critical area for most Microsoft Front Page users; the user must use an add-on program to handle included pages now.
It is difficult, at best, to locate things that were used constantly in previous versions of Front Page.
Even after numerous updates, Expression Web still seems to be unstable, which is typical of Microsoft products in general. There are so many fixes to download for all Microsoft products one must wonder how they came to be available to the public in the first place.
Powerful, If a Little Complicated 2007-12-15
Having come from Front Page 2000, I was a bit overwhelmed at how complex this program can be if you don't have any other web authoring training (like me). But it came with a "Total Training" DVD that helped quite a bit. And after I found a website called "Expression Web Help," and went through their tutorials, I was really pleased with how flexible and powerful this program is. I can finally make professional looking websites instead of the old ones that scream "I made this with Front Page!"
Ken
