ok out of those two...

i have dreamweaver (older version, i think 7.0 or something) at work

or

i can download expressions studio free (legit) because of student deals.

3/4/2008 1:51:16 PM

dreamweaver code view ftw

3/4/2008 3:01:16 PM

^ i THINK you meant to say allaire homesite code view FTW

3/4/2008 3:16:28 PM

if you are doing visual design, get Expressions Web and Visual Studio Express 2008 (also free).

They work pretty seamlessly together and VS is actually a pretty awesome IDE for webdev (although a bit painful for PHP).

I do like Dreamweaver better, but it sure as hell aint free

3/4/2008 5:50:58 PM

what the hell is Expressions anyway? I saw where students could get it free but had never heard of it

3/4/2008 8:08:30 PM

Expressions Web is a visual web development application - It makes webpages (and apparently is lightyears better than DW for CSS based XHTML sites)

Expressions Blend is an integrated visual developer - It creates WPF compliant resources that can be built directly into working code/applications without ever hitting source code. It can also be handed off to developers for direct project integration in Visual Studio (and can go back the other way as well) - REALLY COOL SHIT

Expressions Design is a graphic illustration application - It's like Adobe Illustrator

Expressions Media is the equivalent of Adobe's Flash Video Encoder mixed with Adobe Bridge.

[Edited on March 4, 2008 at 9:32 PM. Reason : .]

3/4/2008 9:31:10 PM

I've never bothered to look at Expressions either ... I suppose I should, if only to be familiar with it. Thanks for the rundown, Noen.

3/5/2008 12:11:44 AM