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One of the big questions I get all the time is, why switch to Microsoft
Expression Web? Why not stay with FrontPage? What's the big deal?
Well, first and foremost, FrontPage is actually being replaced by Microsoft
Expression Web and FrontPage users, you can still keep using FrontPage, but
we're not going to see any new versions most likely. If you want to create
sites, you can take your sites from FrontPage to Expression Web, but there are
some caveats to that. In Expression Web, when you work with certain
things like let's say text, it's going to be using a lot of cascading style
sheets. Expression Web is really what's called a standards based or standards-compliant
program. So if you go to work in here, you are going to find a lot
of the tools are very similar. The workspace might be a little different,
the toolboxes, text panes, things like that might be a little different. But
when you work in FrontPage, you are working with tables; you are working with
Font tags. In Expression Web, it's a little bit different way of thinking.
The web is changed and it's constantly changing over the years. And these days,
to be what's called standards compliant, we create sites that are based on
XHTML, based on CSS, and we're trying to do things, so that they are faster,
lighter to load, easier to edit later on down the road.
So we're going to switch to Expression Web to be able to do that, plus we can
actually have higher standards or higher levels of sophistication and what they
call standards compliance with Expression Web. So it's a great tool for
developing websites and you will find that as you go through this title.