Expression - Part Three: Blend

Well this seems a bit more exciting than FrontPage. To be honest, none of the business users I've ever dealt with used FrontPage...they always used Word to edit web pages. As for developers....well, we know what they think of FrontPage.
Yea, I'd rip the whole frontpage bit out of the description... it is like an insult almost
Seriously, I've tried expression and it doesn't mangle anything if I decide to do stuff with the designer after I've done work in the code editor.
BillP wrote:Well this seems a bit more exciting than FrontPage. To be honest, none of the business users I've ever dealt with used FrontPage...they always used Word to edit web pages. As for developers....well, we know what they think of FrontPage.
Interesting product!! By all means!
But my question is: Where would dreamweaver go now?
Anyone got a quick comparison in mind?
You seem to be missing something that is very important.
Yes in very large corporations and organizations there are two categories of people: "creative professionals" such as web designers, and developers. Each category has with their own tool sets.
However, for most small to medium size corporations and organizations, you have one person that must do both jobs.
I guess the term coder-designer fits as well as any for this persona.
Part 2 : Saving the World - One Click at a Time!
http://www.uidesign.net/2000/interviews/cooper2.html
Therefore, the person must be able to easily switch from the designer tool set to the IDE, Visual Studio, as well as SQL Server.
This needs to be addressed if not in version 1, ASAP.
Also found this article to be very interesting:
Can Microsoft Expression Web Designer Touch Dreamweaver?
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=602975&rl=1
Great video!