Last year the Microsoft Expression team shipped a new suite of tools for creative professionals. This first release of Expression Studio marked a significant milestone in the history of development tools at Microsoft, delivering superior designer-developer workflow and providing designers a set of interaction...
One of the reasons I haven't used Expression Web as my main design tool is the lack of a built-in feature comparable to the FrontPage Design Time Include Component. I'm happy to report that the Include function is back in the Expression Web 2 Beta . It's not a button on the Standard Toolbar...
Building on the successful launch of Microsoft Expression Web and after listening closely to your feedback, we are excited to announce the release of Microsoft Expression Web 2 Beta. This Beta release expands your toolset beyond HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, by putting PHP, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX...
Welcome to the Windows ® Internet Explorer ® 8 Readiness Toolkit, the first place to look when you’re ready to optimize web sites and applications for Internet Explorer 8. Here is a message from Chris Wilson, IE Platform Architect: "Welcome to Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, the latest test release...
IE8 will act like IE8, not IE7. We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously. Why Change? Microsoft recently published a set of Interoperability Principles . Thinking about IE8’s...
If you use FrontPage (or you know someone who uses FrontPage) - we have good news for you if you are considering upgrading your toolset. Expression Web provides a really solid Web authoring tool to create and maintain sites based on standards-compliant code. I have a non-technical friend (a theatre producer...
Listen to Erik Saltwell and Nishant Kothary talk about user experience, why “designer” is an imprecise term, the aesthetics of markup, upcoming features in Expression Web, PHP IntelliSense and #includes, the WordPress and PHP session at MIX08, and Erik on customer intimacy (SFW). It's almost 40 minutes...
Phizzpop is a new part of MIX Online that lets agency designers and developers interact, share, and show off their stuff. It's going to be announced at ReMIX07 in Boston next week (have you registered yet?), but you can view a demo and try it for yourself now .
According to Jeff Barnes , every ReMIX07 Boston attendee will receive a voucher for a $120 online shopping spree at the Microsoft Company store. I'm assuming this is a voucher to spend $120 of your own money, as opposed to being a $120 gift certificate, but it's a great deal. I've shopped...
Did you notice the name has changed? I wonder what that signifies? You can download the Beta 1 from the Expression Web web site (be sure to read the IMPORTANT! notes). If you want to reports bugs, create an account at Microsoft Connect: http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/reportbug.aspx Remember...