Microsoft Expression Web 2 [OLD VERSION]
by Microsoft Software
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Software Reviews of Microsoft Expression Web 2 [OLD VERSION]
Customer Review: Did not purchase this item.
Summary: 3 Stars
I had made a mistake so I cancelled the order within 30 min of purchasing and got a full refund.Customer Review: Excellent Program for Web Developers
Summary: 5 Stars
This Microsoft Web Software does everything you need for getting your website published. The interface is very similar to Microsoft Visual Studios and looks and feels very familiar. I have used several web development products through the years like Dreamweaver, Frontpage, Homesite(several years ago) and others, but they do about the same thing. Now with Microsoft Expression Web 2 I can do more .NET web pages, mainly because it links to Visual Studio's Software when I need to use it.
I have only used this software for a month and it's great. However there is one thing I don't like about the Wizard, there is an open button on creating a new website with the wizard. I think it should be a create button. It's kind of confusing if you don't know what to do.
Customer Review: A product for beginners
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased this product with hopes to increase my Web site development productivity. Unfortunately, after using it for about a week I am greatly disappointed. Features that are common in other development environments are missing or buried deeply, like surround selection with comment tags or format the selected HTML to keep indentations correct for that selection. It seems it can only format the entire document -- and EW2 does it in the way IT likes, not in the way you may have become accustomed. For example, it formats the section as all left-justified.
EW2 doesn't visually indicate the close tag of an element or structure by clicking on it. You have to right-click and select "Select Tag." Other development environments (Visual Studio, Aptana Studio) have made such indications automatically for years. This is very cumbersome if you're trying to verify everything is closed correctly or determine the extent of a block of code.
In addition, if you're using CSS style sheets for page formatting, as is the method recommended by the W3C and other standards groups, the GUI modification environment ignores them. If you move something even one pixel in the GUI presentation, code (top: XXpx; left: XXpx; etc.) gets added to the element instead of modifying the style sheet - even if the element has an ID and a stylesheet unique to the page. That complicates things if you're trying to use CSS Stylesheets for your page formatting. Stay out of the GUI environment!
The Undo feature also works unexpectedly. If you haven't saved, and you undo, it sometimes appears to undo to the last saved state, and redo is left unavailable. Save often! No, I mean even more often than you used to -- as in every sentence or so. I couldn't get Undo and Redo to work reliably or consistently as I have done in other development environments.
Expression Web 2 also takes more liberties than it should in adding code to your document and making assumptions that may not be valid. If you're using PHP "include" statements EW2 gets confused. In such cases EW2 will try to correct your page in a way it understands, but not in a way that is correct. I encountered many problems -- some of which deleted code and resulted in lost work for me. You might say it was user error, but if I encounter such errors as an experienced user of *other* development environments in which I don't have such errors, then I say the product invites user errors and is too risky for me to use.
If you're just starting out, this might be a good starter program for you, but I wouldn't recommend it for anyone who is fluent in HTML, XHTML, CSS, or PHP. You'll end up spending half your time correcting what EW2 does to your web pages.
If I could return this product for a refund, I would.
Customer Review: Better than Microsoft Front Page
Summary: 5 Stars
I have used Microsoft Front Page for many years for auctions and other things and thought that Microsoft Front Page was the best out there in terms of creating websites and other things like that. I lost my Microsoft Front Page and was looking online for another one when I came upon Microsoft Expression Web 2 and decided to try it. When I got it loaded and was toying with it I thought "wow, this is so much better than Microsoft Front Page.
Customer Review: Excellent software
Summary: 4 Stars
I actually haven't bought this software yet, but I have been using the trial version so far and will definately be buying it.
I started with Dreamweaver, which I found useable, but very difficult to do what I wanted to. MSE2 made it VERY EASY to work on my website.
I am no pro, in fact I have zero training in web design. As such, I think this is a very powerful program which can help even novices get done what they need to. I am sure the Dreamweaver is great, but not for someone like me.
I only gave it four stars becuase I don't think I have enough experience or knowledge to give it more...I don't know anything about Flash, Silverlight, and other more advanced tools.