Microsoft Expression Web 2 Features

Standards-Based Web Sites

XHTML compliance

Design sites to today's exacting standards. It's easy with Expression Web 2's deep support for XHTML.

Full schema support

Choose any schema you want to adopt - Expression Web 2 will automatically build appropriate code, and the compatibility checker highlights any non-conforming elements.

Real-time standards validation

Get instant feedback on standards violations. This means corrections can be made as part of the design process, whether in design or code view.

Accessibility checking

Use the built-in accessibility checker tmake sure your Web sites can fully meet screen reader accessibility standards, with support for WCAG and Section 508.

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Sophisticated CSS-Based Layout & Formatting

Professional design surface

Design high-quality Web sites and applications with a state-of-the-art, professional toolset and design surface. Its powerful and easy-to-use tools let you directly manipulate margins and padding throughout the document.

Import Adobe Photoshop files

Include artwork created in Adobe Photoshop with full control over layer importing and memorized settings to import revised artwork with the same settings.

Intelligent CSS style creation

Focus on the design process and let Expression Web 2 take care of CSS style creation, saving you from repetitive work throughout your site.

High-quality CSS rendering engine

Make design decisions with confidence. You'll see a faithful representation of the final browser-rendered page with a powerful, built-in CSS rendering engine.

Drag-and-drop style management

Try out designs with local in-page CSS styles and then easily migrate styles to a central repository using drag and drop.

Standard or Quirks rendering

Render pages in Standard or Quirks mode depending on the doctype setting of the page for maximum browser compatibility.

Intelligent style renaming

Let Expression Web 2's metadata keep track of style usage, allowing you to rename styles instantly. No find and replace needed.

Site and page templates

Get up to speed fast with professionally designed templates that are fully XHTML and CSS compliant.

CSS reporting

View detailed reports on CSS style usage across sites in the Results pane to keep track of where you've used styled pages.

Tag property grid

Retrieve and set all valid properties for a selected tag. Access all the power of the HTML language through a single palette.

CSS design time preferences

Fine-tune how CSS code is generated throughout an application. You have complete control over the details of Expression Web's code generation.

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Rich Data Presentation and Media

Customized views of XML data

Design customized views of industry-standard XML data using powerful drag-and-drop tools, and see how your data will look within your CSS site design.

XSL Transform support (XSLT)

Present data using XSLT, even editing views on live XML data. Designers get the flexibility to represent XML data any way they choose.

Powerful data manipulation

Fine-tune the raw data presented on the page with tools to sort, filter, and apply condition formatting.

RSS Feeds

Retrieve and present XML data from live RSS feeds on your site, styled to match your own site's look and feel.

Insert Silverlight and Adobe Flash content

Integrate rich media into your sites with simple to use insert commands that add all the necessary additional files and tags you need.

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Powerful Server Technology

ASP.NET 3.

Create, edit, and deploy Web pages with deep support for the newly released ASP.NET 3.5 standard. Capture the power of ASP.NET with easy drag-and-drop controls.

ASP.NET Master Pages

Maintain the correct look of your site with the use of server-rendered ASP.NET master pages to speed up the design process and allow easy site-wide changes. Nested master pages keep you on top of complex designs.

ASP.NET controls

Access ASP.NET controls and their associated properties with the same power as Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008, but rendered within the design surface of Expression Web.

No code data binding

Use a drag-and-drop interface that accesses the power of ASP.NET with no coding requirement to visually bind data sources to controls on the design surface.

PHP

Open and edit PHP pages directly in Expression Web 2 and apply the full range of standards based design tools to PHP.

ASP.NET & PHP Development Server

Preview ASP.NET and PHP pages locally, without the need for a full Web server. With the Expression Web Development Server, you can make design decisions with full reference to the page's data.

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