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- Good, but not as easy as FrontPage
A little bit of a learning curve, but once I put down FrontPage for good, Expression became VERY easy.

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- Expression Web Crashes A Lot
I bought the upgrade version of Expression Web and installed it on a computer with Vista Ultimate. It crashes often. I loose work whenever it crashes if I don't save constantly. Micrsoft seems to release software before it is perfected. This causes alot of grief for people who use computers for a living. Expression Web is different from FrontPage 2003 in many ways. Expect a two week education curve in order to use EW. I've heard of problems with Expression Web and XP as well. Microsoft is getting a rather bad reputation that will lead people to buy elsewhere...

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- Crash-O-Matic
Microsoft's decision to embrace HTML standards is good news. Unfortunately Expression Web is a poor implementation of that decision. Too many simple things are difficult to do, but more importantly it crashes remarkably often when running on Vista. It is unfortunate that Microsoft has not issued any updates to correct this obvious and significant problem.

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- I've reverted to FrontPage
Frankly, I expect new applications to have more capabilities, not less.

I expect a smooth migration path when I upgrade within a vendor's offerings.

I expect that there will be tools that will help me modify my stuff to take full advantage of the new environment.

All of this is missing in Expression Web, sadly.

I downloaded the beta and ran it. My sites, all seven of them, rendered the same way they had with FrontPage. My business, in addition to websites, is publishing history on CD-ROMs which I sell to genealogists, historians, etc., and the CDs came out the same way in EW as they had in FP. In fact, there seemed to be virtually nothing new about Expression Web except for a new interface to learn.

I figured that the migration aids would be there when I shelled out my $$, and that once I explored all the great things in EW the veil would be lifted from my eyes and I would see the light. So I bought the product, and installed it, and found virtually no change from the beta.

The migration aids were not there. The veil remained solidly in place.

I have a business to run, and I simply do not have time to screw around learning a new interface and losing capabilities I regularly use in order to be using Microsoft's latest offering.

So, I uninstalled EW and reverted to FP 2003. Fortunately I bought the upgrade so I wasn't out a whole lot of money for this experiment.

On a positive note, I found the development team open to inquiries and generally supportive -- this was FAR BETTER than I had ever seen Microsoft perform in this regard, by the way. That openness and supportiveness alone resulted in a two star rating instead of the one star I had originally decided to give the product.

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- Terrific product!
The only thing that keeps me from giving this 5 stars, is a bug in running this product on Vista that makes the help files not work. That made it more difficult. But this is one dynamite product. You can use templates of various kinds, or you can code things yourself, or a combination of the two. This is truly a standards-based product. The website I built with this looks great in almost every browser. Where it doesn't I know it's because of that browser treating something in a non-standard way, because I know my site adheres to internet standards.

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