Want to see the code, take a look http://expressiondesigns.com that's my site for testing EWD stuff for the book and class. That uses one of the templates that ship with it with little more than the images changed. I can't remember if I changed the characterset or left it at the default utf-8.If I left it at utf-8 the stylesheet won't validate because the CSS validator chokes on the BOM marks but if you past the css in the validator to get past the BOM in the XHTML file (the HTML validator has no problem with it other than a warning that some old browsers don't support it) then it is valid. I think I added 3-4 classes that I normally use (floats and clearing classes for those floats) but otherwise it is straight out of the box.
I wouldn't worry too much about some of the newbies after all the owner of http://actionsnacks.com has already decided that it is way to complicated for her (warning there is sound onload if you go look at that site.) Pricing is not yet known but the other web editor MS is releasing for the SharePoint market (no SharePoint authoring tool thank god). The announced price for that is $299 or $159 if they have a qualifying product. While you can write a css zen garden with it you do still need to understand CSS and browser to do a good job and while the templates are better than anything Microsoft has done people will need customization and I expect there are quite a few people who would still be interested in services like those of http://xhtmlized.com/ because from what I've been seeing a lot of FrontPage users want hand holding with CSS while they learn. If they want to learn that is, not all do and I suspect there are quite a few who would be happy to have their sites converted with a dwt provided. Cheryl D Wise MS MVP FrontPage http://by-expression.com Online instructor led training http://starttoweb.com -----Original Message----- From: Mark Groen On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 16:30 -0500, Cheryl D Wise wrote: > .........Microsoft Expression........ Ouch, glad I know how to do more than just mark up html! Seems it means that people doing start-ups like http://xhtmlized.com/ aren't going to be around long? Is it correct to assume the code is a just a little (not a lot) more bloated than a hand crafted semantic page would be? In other words for those optimizing markup for 100k+ views a day, they still would be needed or do you think that the cheap bandwidth that's now available will negate that too? Anything you can add off the record about price and availability? http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/web_designer/fpwd_faq.mspx#q 2 Me runs out to brush up on my mysql and php5 OOP skills now, guessing this software is not exactly going to be cheap but still popular... ____ The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ Send Your Posts To: [email protected] To change subscription settings, add a password or view the web interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=wdvltalk ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
