WebEasy 6 Professional - Complete Web Design Studio Review

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(More customer reviews)I have Dreamweaver, Go Live, and Front Page so why am I bothering with this fifty-dollar program? Because it works without the frustration that accompany the others.
I'm not a professional designer, just a small business owner who's been needing to re-do my website for some time now and have been dreading it. My wife and I built it with Front Page which is the easiest to learn of the big three but it's still a struggle to use at times.
Web Easy is far easier than Front Page but not over simplified to the point that the features you want are stripped away. Everything I need is there and easy to find and figure out.
I downloaded the free version from V-Com's website lastnight, and was able to learn it mostly just by exploring. It has a searchable help index I used once when I had a question.
I'm truly excited about using this program because it works without having to fight it! It's exactly what I was hoping for.

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Expression Studio 4 Ultimate Upgrade Review

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(More customer reviews)Expression Web Fails to run.
I have sent the message below to the Manufacturer. There is no place to report malfunctioning software without paying them. The told me the Expression web forum is the only place to report program failures. I've made two reports there. No one has responded. The failure of this program really hurts my business, and there is no way to report this to the manufacturer.
Expression Web 4 stops running and runs too slow to be usable. My computer runs all other programs well including Expression Web 3. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the .Net Framework. This program is defective and I need to know if it is going to be a supported product, and where I can report it as defective.

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Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Ultimate opens up a new world of creative possibility. Its professional design tools give you the freedom to make your vision real--whether you're designing for standards-based Web sites, rich desktop experiences, or Silverlight. Includes Expression Web, Expression Blend, SketchFlow, Expression Design and Expression Encoder Pro.

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Any Microsoft Expression product
Any Adobe Creative Suite product
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 or later

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Expression Studio 4 Web Professional Upgrade Review

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(More customer reviews)I'm a fairly newbie web page creator. My previous editor Hot Dog from Sausage quit working with Windows 7 and I needed a new one. Since I had Microsoft Office I took advantage of the cheaper price you get for having both products.
It's a nice product for the price.
The installation and the licensing were flawless. My download was from the Microsoft site for the evaluation copy but I bought my final copy from Amazon and the licensing was no problem.
Documentation
The editor was not real intuitive I thought. There are lots of web resources to help including some nice videos and the Help pages that come are nice but there is no manual with the editor either printed or online. But then my old (and I mean real old) editor didn't either, but this editor has lots more features.
I ended up buying a copy of Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web 4 in 24 Hours from Barnes and Noble. I'm only half way through and am not working on my own pages yet but the book is great and I love Expression Web 4 now that the book has shown me the way. Expression Web 4 looks like a great product.
Couple of glitches so far
I did have a few issues with the editor. I was looking at a large web page (19,000 lines) that gets generated by some software on my PC and it was not letting me click on a tag and show me the end tag (The tag i.e. the whole page). The page had a couple of errors on it, like no and no tags and the code view page just takes forever to update and locks up and stuff like that. It seems to run much better after I fixed a few of the obvious errors. And it did not report those missing tags, I had to look for them.
But I still like the program.
Panels
There are various command/menu panels you can put up to help you and they can stack next to each other side by side or on top of each other or be tabbed together in the same window. Just drag and drop them to move them. They can be very tough to drop where you want them. I want them on top of each other and I end up side by side, and so on.
Multiple Browsers
I love the ability to click and have the web pages come up in all the different browsers I have on my PC

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Microsoft Expression Web 4 gives you the tools you need to produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites, with built-in support for today's Web standards, sophisticated CSS design capabilities, and visual diagnostic tools. Whether you work with PHP, HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP.NET or ASP.NET AJAX, Expression Web makes it fast to create and maintain exceptional Web sites. With a professional code editor, visual & CSS diagnostic tools, cross-browser debugging features, broad Web standards support, and SEO compatibility reports, Expression Web makes it easy to create modern standards-based Web sites.

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Any Microsoft Expression product
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Expression Studio 4 Web Professional Review

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(More customer reviews)My background is straight HTML/CSS development as well as FrontPage 2003 development. I was tasked with the objective of converting a problematic 5000 line FP website to something easy to use and compatible with my website provider. (Since FP has lost support from MS the provider also is withdrawing support.) Unfortunately, MS offers no conversion path. (Incredibly short sighted!!!!!!) I was on my own to get rid of any code that used "FP extensions" as well as various syntax problems from FP. (For example, uppercase FP HTML tokens are non-standard.)
Once all of the non-standard FP code was deleted or modified, I was able to import the website into one of the standard Expression Web CSS templates. From there everything worked very smoothly. Code validation is built-in with many ways of reporting status or errors. Pages can be previewed in 3 ways: a) Directly in the EW4 designer; b) Hitting a function to call Internet Explorer; or c) using their SP or SuperPreview mode. This last options allows side by side comparison of your page with two browsers (IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox, etc.) as well as on any resolution screen.
A really nice feature is that you can move or delete most of the windows and then later click "Panels, Reset Workspace Layout" to get things back to normal. Another feature is its HTML format command.
Publishing can be done through FTP and the website provider no longer needs FP Extensions installed. EW4 produces code that can be run anywhere. It integrates with PHP (available free from 3rd party), and you can test PHP code by launching Internet Explorer.
Minor criticisms: you have to save your edited source before launching IE. By comparison, the old Macromedia HTML development editor would transparently make a temporary copy and then launch IE. So if you want to "fool around" safely, you must manually make a copy to "play" with and leave the original alone. Another item is that there is no HTML tag editor. Intellisense is nice but it would also be nice to be able to see all of the options of say the tag, or have the editor determine the size of an image.
It's an excellent product and I would recommend it.


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Microsoft Expression Web 4 gives you the tools you need to produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites, with built-in support for today's Web standards, sophisticated CSS design capabilities, and visual diagnostic tools. Whether you work with PHP, HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP.NET or ASP.NET AJAX, Expression Web makes it fast to create and maintain exceptional Web sites. With a professional code editor, visual & CSS diagnostic tools, cross-browser debugging features, broad Web standards support, and SEO compatibility reports, Expression Web makes it easy to create modern standards-based Web sites.
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