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 - Is this upgrade really worth itI bought this product thinking it would be a great upgrade to my Front Page. Boy was I wrong. It is nothing like Front Page and a lot of the short cuts that you learned do not work with this product. The instructions are very much like Front Page - non existent. If your happy using Front Page I would not upgrade to this program unless you like a lot of frustration! Rating:  - What a great package!I thought FrontPage would be hard to beat for ease-of-use. I am startled at how quick the adjustment was. Expression Web has the intention of being much more standards-compliant than FrontPage, so some handy FrontPage features are missing. But CSS can compensate for them, and Expression Web's user interface is so well-designed that even CSS does not seem so daunting. Speaking of user interface, it seems to me that Microsoft has combined the best features of Visual Studio's user interface and the Adobe CS (e.g. Photoshop) interface (and resisted the dubious "ribbon" thing it introduced in Microsoft Office 2007). Working in Expression Web seems very natural; things are easy to find, highly customizable, there when you want them. I think I will be able to use this package for a long time. Rating: - Hate it - Skip Expression Web Hate this program and am shopping around for something to replace it with. I'm not sure why Microsoft had to scrap Frontpage instead of working with what they had and upgrading. I had developed a website design business around that software package in spite of its limitations - and there were definitely some limitations. I will not recommend this product to anyone and I will be converting all of my client websites to a different program... in the meantime they will be maintained in Frontpage while I shop around. Rating: - ArrowgemI am using Expression web all the time and am very satisfied with it. To view my web site go to www.arrowgem.com It is easy to use. I find it easier than the old Front Page. Richard Hanson Rating:  - Microsoft Expression Web UpgradeInstalled fine with no problems. It did not ask for proof of Frontpage ownership. The differences between Frontpage and Expression Web are huge. The help files lack much in the way of help. Be prepared to order books on how to use Expression Web.
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