A professional design tool to help you create modern standards-based Web sitesExpression Web Designer is a professional design tool to help you create modern standards-based Web sites.

Expression Web Designer gives you all the tools you'll need to produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites the way you want them. Take advantage of the best of dynamic Web site design, enabling you to easily develop, design and maintain exceptional standards-based webpages.

Expression Web Designer helps you create and work with:
· Standards-based Web sites
· Sophisticated CSS-based layouts
· Extensive CSS formatting and management
· Rich data presentation
· Powerful ASP.NET 2.0-based technology

Here are some key features of "Microsoft Expression Web Designer":
· XHTML compliance
Design sites according to today’s exacting standards with minimum effort by taking advantage of Web Designer’s deep support for XHTML.

· Full schema support
Choose whatever schema you want to adopt, Web Designer builds appropriate code, and the compatibility checker highlights non-conformant custom code.

· Real-time standards validation
Receive instant feedback of standards violations so instant corrections can be made during the design process, whether in design or code view. Prevents time-consuming corrections at a later stage in the design.

· Accessibility checking
Use the built-in accessibility checker to make sure that Web sites can fully conform to accessibility standards for reading by screen readers, with support for WCAG and Section 508 standards.

· Professional design surface
Design high-quality Web sites and applications with a state-of-the-art, professional toolset and design surface that combines power with ease of use, allowing direct manipulation of margins and padding throughout the document.

· High-quality CSS rendering engine
Produce a faithful representation of the look of the final browser-rendered page with a powerful CSS rendering engine which allows design decisions to be made with confidence