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Microsoft recently released Expression Web, which replaces the venerable FrontPage HTML editor and Web site design tool. Expression Web has come a long way from its FrontPage roots, but it still maintains much of the ease of use that allowed FrontPage to be used by so many new Web content creators. Here?s a look at the highlights.

1. Expression Web replaces FrontPage in Microsoft?s lineup, but it fits into a different slot
2. Unlike FrontPage, Expression Web purposely generates standard, valid HTML and CSS by default
3. Expression Web is capable of working with ASP.NET files, but it can?t work with the code-behind files
4. The rest of the Expression suite covers the ground that Expression Web doesn?t
5. Like FrontPage, Expression Web provides a good number of tools for reporting against the site that you?re working on
6. One sign of the former Office integration is the use of the spell checker, something which will most likely never appear in Visual Studio
7. Expression Web contains three important and useful validators
8. If you want the functionality of the Master Page system without using ASP.NET, Expression Web has a Dynamic Web Template system
9. Expression Web hooks into the Microsoft Script Editor, which provides debugging tools for client-side scripting
10. Microsoft is currently offering a 60 day free trial of Expression Web

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