Microsoft Expression Web 3 Service Pack 1 (SP1) contains significant fixes and improvements in publishing, SuperPreview, file management, extensibility, and other areas of the program.

Expression Web Designer is a professional design tool to help you create modern
standards-based Web sites.

Expression Web Designer gives you all the tools you'll need to produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites the way you want them. Take advantage of the best of dynamic Web site design, enabling you to easily develop, design and maintain exceptional standards-based webpages.

Expression Web Designer helps you create and work with:
· Standards-based Web sites
· Sophisticated CSS-based layouts
· Extensive CSS formatting and management
· Rich data presentation
· Powerful ASP.NET 2.0-based technology

NOTE: A product key is required for Expression Web 2. You can obtain a product key by visiting the Expression Web 2 product key page.

Here are some key features of "Microsoft Expression Web Designer":

· XHTML compliance
· Design sites according to today's exacting standards with minimum effort by taking advantage of Web Designer's deep support for XHTML.

· Full schema support
· Choose whatever schema you want to adopt, Web Designer builds appropriate code, and the compatibility checker highlights non-conformant custom code.

· Real-time standards validation
· Receive instant feedback of standards violations so instant corrections can be made during the design process, whether in design or code view. Prevents time-consuming corrections at a later stage in the design.

· Accessibility checking
· Use the built-in accessibility checker to make sure that Web sites can fully conform to accessibility standards for reading by screen readers, with support for WCAG and Section 508 standards.

· Professional design surface
· Design high-quality Web sites and applications with a state-of-the-art, professional toolset and design surface that combines power with ease of use, allowing direct manipulation of margins and padding throughout the document.

· High-quality CSS rendering engine
· Produce a faithful representation of the look of the final browser-rendered page with a powerful CSS rendering engine which allows design decisions to be made with confidence

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

· Site and page templates
· Improve initial design productivity by starting with professionally designed templates that are fully XHTML and CSS compliant

· Tag property grid
· Retrieve and set all valid properties for a selected tag. Access all the power of the HTML language through one palette.

· Intelligent CSS style creation
· Focus on the design process and let Expression Web Designer take care of CSS style creation, avoiding repetitive style creation throughout your site.

· 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.

· Intelligent style renaming
· Rename styles instantly without find and replace with locally stored site metadata recording all style usage.

· CSS reporting
· View detailed reports on CSS style usage across sites in the Results pane to effectively manage the deployment of consistently styled pages.

· CSS design time preferences
· Set preferences for exactly how CSS code is generated throughout an application to have complete control over Expression Web Designer code generation.

· Customized views of XML data
· Design customized views of industry-standard XML data using powerful drag-and-drop tools to quickly achieve visualizations that conform to the CSS site design.

· XSL Transform support (XSLT)
· Present data using XSLT, with support for editing views on live XML data to give designers full flexibility to represent XML data the 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 the look and feel of the site.

· Create and edit ASP.NET pages
· Create, edit, and deploy Web pages with deep support for the newly released ASP.NET 2.0 standard. Capture the power of ASP.NET with the ease of use of drag-and-drop controls.

· 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 allow complex designs to be maintained.

· ASP.NET controls
· Access ASP.NET controls and their associated properties with the same power as Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 but rendered within the design surface of Web Designer.

· ASP.NET Development Server
· Preview ASP.NET pages locally, without the need for a full Web server, with the ASP.NET Development Server, allowing design decisions to be made with full reference to the page's data.

· 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.

Requirements:

· PC with 1 GHz or faster processor
· 512 MB of RAM or more
· 150 MB of available hard-disk space
· NET Framework 3.5 with Service Pack 1
· Support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 graphics with Windows Vista Display Driver Model (WDDM) Driver, 128 MB of graphics RAM or more, Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware, 32-bits per pixel
· DVD compatible drive
· 1024 x 768 or higher-resolution monitor with 24-bit color
· Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based on your system configuration and operating system.

Limitations:

· 30-day trial