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Anyone else downloading Expressions? - 5/24/2006 7:12:24
Just discovered that CTP 1 of Web Designer is available here.
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RE: Anyone else downloading Expressions? - 5/24/2006 8:30:08
Yes I downloaded it. If you are a Dreamweaver EU you will have zero learning curve. It's just about the same! I rather like it so far. It is CPT1. I wonder what they will charge for it?? It is married to the dot.net 2 framework and seems intigrated with Office Apps.
This is an excerpt from a ZDnet article that explains the similarities
"FrontPage was very good in its time, four or five years ago when the Web was a very different place" says Wayne Smith, who left his role as a product manager on Macromedia's Dreamweaver and Flash to lead the Expressions Web Designer team. "Times have moved on, the Web has moved on immeasurably in the last four years and it's time to have a tool that deals with these new standards.
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RE: Anyone else downloading Expressions? - 5/24/2006 10:36:26
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You can take a look at it here. Please remember this is literally just the empty site as it gets generated from the template. I've made no changes whatsoever, just File>New Web and then uploaded it to the server
Nice--hard to believe that is a template from the same people that brought you the FP themes!
Just downloaded trial and installing as I type this. Looking forward to checking it out.
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RE: Anyone else downloading Expressions? - 5/24/2006 11:05:42
Starting to play around with it some and have to say---I really like it. I am pleasantly surprised and think I am going to try it for a client site I was about to start.
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RE: Anyone else downloading Expressions? - 5/25/2006 9:19:34
I have been contractually obligated not to say anything about it during beta. It's not stable yet, but it's a very comfortable environment for FP users who want to work with css.
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RE: Anyone else downloading Expressions? - 5/27/2006 9:19:43
Keep us posted. I will do the same. I've created a datasource to an mdb. Very easy. I don't see a obvious way to create a dataset to use with a grid on a page. So that needs work. I want to see how well it interacts with various type of data sources that will go along way in deciding future use for me.
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RE: Anyone else downloading Expressions? - 5/28/2006 12:13:24
Does it still have a Publish Web feature or do we have to FTP?
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RE: Anyone else downloading Expressions? - 5/28/2006 17:53:46
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If I'm dealing with data I use php and MySQL and it still won't talk to those.
I didn't use FP's DRW and stuff as well.
So with comments like that, are all the benefits primarily the CSS stuff?
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RE: Anyone else downloading Expressions? - 5/28/2006 19:38:27
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ORIGINAL: treetopsranch
Does it still have a Publish Web feature or do we have to FTP?
It has the publish feature like FP did, and FTP is also an option.
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RE: Anyone else downloading Expressions? - 5/30/2006 21:43:14
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You can use mySQL with .Net
If you use a SqlDataSource control then select System.Data.OleDb from the drop down under ProviderName in the properties menu.
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RE: Anyone else downloading Expressions? - 5/31/2006 10:31:27
So far I like the new Web Designer, but it's the new Graphic designer that I've been really excited about. The Vector/raster conversion is really nice and the photo stitching awesome - really too many great features to mention here. You should download it too!
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RE: Anyone else downloading Expressions? - 5/31/2006 11:06:54
Once you create the connection to the database you can drag the little connection icon onto the page next drag a grid or view onto the page and the connection will be available for the grid or view.
It does not seem like it should work that way but it does.
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RE: Anyone else downloading Expressions? - 5/31/2006 11:29:38
Help Viewer prevents Help download?
Does downloading Help file first help with this or does the Viewer coming down afterwards corrupt it?
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RE: Anyone else downloading Expressions? - 5/31/2006 11:58:06
Don't bother with the help as of earlier this week when I downloaded it, it had no contents.
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