Expression Web was mothballed in 2009 .. Ed the ex Product Manager was packing his boxes around then when I walked into his Office and asked wtf was going on. That product has been put out to pasture for so long now i doubt anyone in Microsoft even realises its still being downloaded...
It lost out due to Sharepoint Designer or whatever that has now mutated into and there was no point competing with Sharepoint Designer + VS Express as it just created way to much internal bad blood. just 2c. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Stephen Price <step...@perthprojects.com>wrote: > Well they wouldn't be flogging the one they are killing off would they? :) > > I'm pretty sure Visual Studio 2012 is more than capable of maintaining web > sites. The extra site level file management stuff that I think you are > referring to (been a long time since I looked at expression web/dreamweaver > kind of tool) might be more challenging but I'm sure there's something > there. I know there is a web site template. I just created an empty website > (says its an asp.net website) and noticed that when choosing the > location, there was an option to create it on Remote site (and the > mouseover shows Frontpage site). So its probably there somewhere? :) > > > > > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net> wrote: > >> 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 <step...@perthprojects.com>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 <g...@mira.net> 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 >>>> >>> >>> >> >
