Greg, Expression Web 4 (according to the link in your email) will be available for download for free. From what you said Expression Web is the tool you use and like for managing websites. It's not going to stop working. Why not keep using it? At least until you figure out what other people use and if Visual Studio will be up to the task?
Or grab something like Sublime 2 (notepad replacement) and use that, or some other web tool. It's just text after all. :) On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, several weeks ago I discovered I accidentally didn't install > Expression Blend with VS2012 because I thought it was the same as V4 and > would be duplicating effort. After correcting this misunderstanding and > reading more about what's happening with the Expression Suite I'm becoming > rather bewildered. See official page > HERE<http://www.microsoft.com/expression/eng/> > . > > *Blend* is now merging (sort of) with VS2012. *Encoder* will be absorbed > by Azure Media Services. The future of *Design* is > completely indecipherable from the wording on the site. *Web* is > apparently being replaced by VS2012, and that's the bit that really > surprised me. This is one hell of a shakeup. > > I used FrontPage for a few years after it came out, then I used > Dreamweaver for several years, then I moved to Expression Web (and > discovered it was FrontPage sneakily renamed) and I'm using that now for > mostly traditional static web site authoring. Now I'm told that it will be > replaced by VS2012 ... well, whoopee because that's a product I'm familiar > with, but I never considered it a candidate for managing "web sites". The > old products were custom made for the job, maintaining databases of > "sites", cross references of links and publishing options, but VS2012 > doesn't seem built for that purpose. > > Can anyone confirm that VS2012 is a viable and capable product for > creating large web sites full of mostly traditional static pages? Perhaps > it can do that as a subset of some larger feature set I've ignored. > > Greg K >
