A. Microsoft Expression Web 2 is a professional design tool to create modern, standards-based sites and Web applications that use ASP.NET or PHP.

A. Expression Web 2 is available either separately or as part of the full Expression Studio 2. It can be purchased from a range of resellers and online resellers or can be purchased for immediate download from Microsoft’s online store. For a comprehensive list of purchasing options, see the How To Buy page.

A. Expression Web 2 has an estimated retail price of US $299.

A. Qualifying customers, including FrontPage and owners of several Adobe products, can upgrade to Expression Web 2 for US $99. Click here to purchase and digitally download this upgrade.

A. Each of the Microsoft Expression products is available in the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, and Korean.

A. Yes. The fully featured 30 day free trial for Expression Web 2 is currently available for download here.

A. Expression Web 2 in English language versions will include several resources to help users get started with the application, including: a two hour "getting started" training video from Total Training, a printed Getting Started and online help and tutorials.

A. This website contains a wealth of frequently updated materials on all the Expression products and the Microsoft technologies that they are designed to work with. Check the Learn section for specific info.

A. Expression Web 2 is targeted at professional designers who are building standards-based XHTML Web sites and applications, but it is designed to be usable by less experienced people as well. 

A. Yes. Expression Web 2 supports XHTML and CSS standards and will enable Web designers to easily build browser-agnostic sites. Expression Web 2 also incorporates rich accessibility support to help build the most accessible, standards-conformant websites possible.

A. Expression Web 2 is a design product for professional web designers that combines the best of both FrontPage and Visual Studio technologies in a new user interface for creating XHTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, and ASP.NET 2.0. Where appropriate, the user interface and features of Expression Web 2 and Visual Studio are identical (such as for ASP.NET control properties).

A. Expression Web 2 provides Web professionals with everything they need to build attractive, high-quality websites using HTML, DHTML, CSS, and XHTML. With Expression Web 2, professional designers can easily take advantage of the best of dynamic website design, enabling users to quickly and efficiently design, develop, and maintain standards-based Web applications with seamless integration with ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET AJAX and Visual Studio 2008.

A. Expression Web 2 provides seamless integration with Visual Studio 2008 and ASP.NET 3.5 (and 2.0), enabling designers and developers to interact using products that they are most comfortable with. Designers can easily lay out XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and basic dynamic functionality using Expression Web 2 and take advantage of many ASP.NET specific features like Master Pages for templating, and drag and drop controls. The project can then be handed over to developers using Visual Studio, enabling them to extend the functionality through advanced server-side code and business logic.

A. The customer feedback from the initial release of Expression Web was extremely positive especially with regard to the support for Web standards. However a sizable number of those who evaluated the trial version were prevented from using it because their work involved PHP websites. As a direct response to this, we decided to add PHP support to Expression Web at the earliest opportunity.

A. Visit Microsoft Help and Support .

A. Formal support is not offered for the Expression Web trial. There is a lively user forum on this site where many community members ask and answer questions ranging from how to do product-specific tasks to design best practices.