Microsoft Expression Web (www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/expression-web)
arrived on the scene in very late 2006, and after the disaster that was Microsoft FrontPage,
was a surprisingly strong effort from Microsoft. While weaker than Dreamweaver, it managed
??”at the time of release??”to provide some CSS tools superior to Adobe??™s application,
and although its workflow is inferior to Dreamweaver??™s, it??™s a surprisingly capable and userfriendly
application. Unfortunately, Microsoft Expression Web is hampered by a lack of
support for PHP (it concentrates primarily on Microsoft-originated technologies) and the
lack of a Mac OS X release. However, for Windows-based web designers only interested in
static sites, and those who develop ASP.NET-based sites, it??™s worth a look.
Other applications in this area are more extreme in terms of working method than those
discussed so far, either relying on a purely layout-based approach, or being based around
hand-coding. An example of a purely layout-oriented application is the Mac-only Softpress
Freeway (www.softpress.com/), which is even more geared toward print designers than
GoLive and has an interface akin to QuarkXPress. Software geared toward hand-coding
includes BBEdit (Mac OS X, www.barebones.com/), TextMate (Mac OS X, www.macromates.
com/), HomeSite (Windows, www.adobe.com/products/homesite/), HTML Kit (Windows,
www.chami.com/html-kit/), and TopStyle Pro (Windows, www.
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