SP, I was mainly surprised that Microsoft are touting Visual Studio as a replacement for Expression Web, as they seem like tools designed for quite different purposes. Then I was wondering if VS has hidden capabilities that I should be aware of for web site authoring (I wasn't particularly looking, but I have noticed any!). You know, I often whined about the Expression products because they were distributed separately from the developer tools, priced separately and had a totally different look and feel ... and now they're mutating and dying off. Did the tech-heads not talk to the marketing people at some point in history? Strange days eh?! -- Greg
On 14 September 2013 19:03, Stephen Price <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > >
