Standards based design on PHP
Open up your PHP sites to the visual world of standards based design with advanced code editing features.
Built-in PHP & ASPNET development server
Preview PHP & ASP NET pages without installing a separate development server or having to uploading your site-including the ability to target different versions of PHP for different sites
Silver light 1 0 support
Light up your websites with dynamic Silverlight content created In Expression Studio and elsewhere.
Import Adobe Photoshop files
Import Adobe Photoshop design files into your sites with layer Control, and then re-import updates with retained settings
Enhanced ActiveX support
Position, edit, and preview media-based ActiveX controls, including Silverlight, Windows Media and Adobe Flash directly in the design view.
ASP NET AJAX support
Integrate your designs with Microsofts ASP NET AJAX capabilities using drag-and-drop controls.
ASPNET 3.5 support
Design sites that are built with the very latest version of Microsofts ASPNET 3.5 web server platform.
ASPNET Custom control design time support
Add custom ASP NET controls easily for increased integration with Visual Studio.
Enhanced CSS checking and design time rendering
Check and visualise your sites CS5 features with even more detail in Expression Web 2.
Enhanced FTP publishing
Control uploading your sites using ftp with login management and enhanced compatibility features.
Professional Design Environment
Get more done with software that works the way you do. With task panes and menus just where you need them, you're free to concentrate on design. Import Adobe Photoshop files to create your website graphics.
Standards Based Site Design
Reach for a tool that's been built with today's modern standards in mind, and see results in better browser rendering and more relevant search engine indexing. Expression Web builds sites to XHTML, CSS, XML, and XSLT, making sure your pages are compliant throughout the design process.
CSS Layout
Separate design from content with Cascading Style Sheets-the complex technology that's behind today's modern sites. Expression Web's design-focused tools show you a visual hierarchy of styles, give you drag-and-drop control of margins, and offer many other ways to make working with CSS easy.
CSS Site Templates
Jump right in with Expression Web's professionally designed, standards-compliant site templates in a broad range of categories. Or make your own CSS designs from a host of DIV-based layouts.
CSS Style Application
Choose between automatically generated CSS styles or generate them manually for absolute control over the type of rule created and its precise location. The choice is yours.
CSS Management
Get a visual overview of where CSS rules are created, where they're located, and their application order with Expression Web's industry-leading CSS management tools. It's never been easier to manage complex CSS in a site.
Property Task Pane
See at a glance the full range of CSS and tag attributes available to you from either of the property task panes. You can reorder the list to find just what you need, or get a summary of "in use" CSS properties for fast reference.
Rich Data Presentation
Show that XML data who's master! Simply drag and drop an XML file and it's immediately rendered by an XSL stylesheet that you can reformat to match your site's style. Now you can include, filter and sort and style data from any XML source easily.
ASP.NET 3.5
Harness the power of ASP.NET with a wide variety of controls, including navigation, calendars, logins and database integration. No coding is needed, as they're all rendered within the design surface.
Edit PHP pages
Broaden your scope by now editing PHP sites with Expression Web 2. Apply the full set of standards based design tools to a wider range of sites.