I have been looking for a review like this for a few days now. You know, one that clearly defines the differences between Expression Web Designer and Dreamweaver. Today folks, it appears that I have found it…

Over the last year, a new phrase has been used in the press and at conferences: Web 2.0. The term has come to represent the new era of Web technologies offered to designers, developers, and interactive artists. This new age is built on standards. There are design standards, such as Cascading Style Sheets; meta data standards, such as XHMTL; data transfer standards, such as XML; and accessibility standards for the visually impaired. Design tools for the Web artist are needed to support these standards.

For the last nine years one tool has dominated the Web design world: Dreamweaver. Now, Microsoft is poised to release a competitor. We looked at the latest beta release (CTP), released at the end of last week, to examine what they’re prepared to deliver.

Standards have always been a part of Dreamweaver. The problem is that, over the last decade and a half, the standards have changed. HTML 2.0, lead to HTML 3.2, which in turn became HTML 4.0 and now is XHTML — you can also throw in changes for style management with Cascading Style Sheets, scripting (how many different variations of Javascript can we support?) and specializations in the Web browsers themselves. The bottom line is that Dreamweaver has attempted to support too many legacy standards. The result is a bloody mess…. Source: Digital Media Designer

[tags]web browsers,dreamweaver,expression web designer,cascading style sheets[/tags]