Wrox - Beginning Expression Web

Introduction

Ten years ago, when I used FrontPage for the first time, I was amazed at how far ahead of its time the program was. The ability to work with tables, visual formatting, styles, and pinpoint accurate designs truly amazed me. I was a skeptic when it came to visual editors, and preferred Notepad whenever possible. FrontPage changed that in me, and made me look at Web development in a whole new light. Still, many considered FrontPage a simple visual editor that accomplishes little but aid in the development of static Web pages. The mindset is that visual editors lack the true complexity that it takes to create rich and powerful Web applications that encompass client-side technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, while leveraging server-side technologies such as ASP.NET.

Enter Expression Web. As FrontPage’s successor, Expression Web obliterates that stigma by captivating the developer in a vast, intuitive, and feature-rich environment. Whether you’re designing a Web site for personal use, a government institution, or a private organization, Expression Web’s tools are geared to aiding in the development of feature-rich, accessible, and captivating Web pages.