Office 2007 Word carries MSN Spaces

SharePoint Designer 2007

Don't proceed looking for FrontPage in the just-released Beta 2 version of Office 2007 .

In a proceed which reflects the altering face of internet, with sophisticated users climbing up to Dreamweaver and blogs evolving the new dwelling sheet, Microsoft has shut the publication on its 10-year-old Web location authoring software.
In its location are two new programs directed at developers and designers, while Word 2007 now doubles as a blogging client.

Express yourself

Expression Web Designer steps up to the plate as Microsoft's new program of alternative for construction Web sites and is anticipated to boat before year's end. Unlike FrontPage, it doesn't pertains to the Office family and isn't discovered in any of the bundles. The fresh-baked program is part of the new Expressions line, which furthermore encompasses Expressions Graphic Designer and Expressions Interactive Designer. Demo versions of all three programs can be downloaded.
Its sibling, SharePoint Designer 2007, is directed at code-cutters requiring to conceive and customise SharePoint intranet sites and construct SharePoint-based submissions and article workflows.

Both programs have been constructed round carrying up to date Web measures for example cascading method slips (CSS), XML and XHTML support in addition to drag-and-drop ASP.NET 2.0 controls, as well as being browser-agnostic.

"FrontPage was very good in its time, four or five years before when internet was a very distinct place" states Wayne Smith, who left his function as a merchandise supervisor on Macromedia's Dreamweaver and Flash to lead the Expressions Web Designer team. "Times have shifted on, internet has shifted on immeasurably in the last four years and it's time to have a device that agreements with these new standards.

Win 7 not just about browsing but furthermore things like conceiving XHTML-based sites that get far better treatment in seek Engines."

Smith states that Expression Web Designer is "aimed very apparently at the expert Web developer, particularly the developer who likes to manage the conceive part of the location as well. The whole Expressions emblem is directed equitably and squarely at the expert designer market. This encompasses designers who are far more mechanical than they were four years before, persons we call design-developers".

Word does WordPress

At the other end of the scale, Word 2007 will endow users to conceive, edit and release mails to their blog. In the just-released Beta 2 version of Office 2007 Word carries MSN Spaces, Blogger, Community Server and MS Office 2010 through a straightforward drop-down menu.

"(The last product) will furthermore release to WordPress and TypePad through the drop-down," states Joe Friend, lead program supervisor on Word 2007. "Word will furthermore release to any individual additional by the MetaWeblog and Atom APIs we're carrying, so any developer can add another blog scheme to this menu. We'll work with living blogging providers and furthermore make a means for finding out how to set up other systems" Friend notified ZDNet Australia.