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(More customer reviews)If you are using a Microsoft Web-building product for the first time and are going to use Expression Web to create new web sites that meet current Web standards and will display well in a most browsers, you will probably like this program--with its Dream Weaver-type interface and on-the-fly CSS--as much, if not better, than the competitors' programs. However, if you are upgrading from Front Page and are creating thousands of pages of computer-based training material for use on IE7 only (as we are at our company), you will miss a number of very handy features that were present in Front Page 2003. While, on the one hand, the Expression Web interface incorporates the excellent file management features from Front Page (much better than in Dream Weaver) and adds tremendous functionality, there are a number of omissions and quirks that can be extremely frustrating. Here are just a few of them:
1) Front Page provided menu commands for inserting video clips and Flash animations; Expression Web does not. All links to these items must be inserted in the code. Furthermore, there is no mention of this omission by Microsoft either in the help system or on line. The program does, however, include an easy-to-use Snippets tool where, with a little effort, you could store the code for these functions.
2) When you open Expression Web, the Folders view does not include a Title column, and there is no way to access it. I found out by accident that if you open a page in a new window, the Title column magically appears.
3) Microsoft still does not include the Paragraph command on the right-click button. This is one of the most useful commands. The keyboard shortcut + O + P can be used to expedite access to the Paragraph command.
4) When you choose to code CSS manually, the Format Painter is disabled. Sometimes I just want to avoid the extra styles Expression Web generates when in Automatic mode, but I want to be able to copy code using the Format Painter.
5) There is no longer a Preview mode. This isn't a big deal because I prefer to view my work in the browser.
6) The shortcut key for previewing in the browser is , which in almost every other program is reserved for the Save As function. What was Microsoft thinking?
7) If I manually change a link color, the underline shows in the correct color in Expression Web, but not in the browser (it adopts the default link color). This was not a problem in Front Page.
There is more, but you get the idea. This is typical Microsoft development: two steps forward, one step back!
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