Beta 1 of Expression Web Designer (now renamed to Expression Web) has released today. It can be downloaded from here. Somasegar's initial announcement post summarizes about the Expression Suite here.

Last Friday, I was looking at the Expression tools and I was quite impressed. Microsoft Expression is a set of three tools - i) Graphic Designer ii) Interactive Designer, and iii) Web Designer. Expression Web is a professional design tool that helps to produce dynamic and standards based web sites. It comes with sophisticated CSS layouts and rich data presentation. There are several tours and demos available on Microsoft Expression Web Site.

Microsoft Expression Web Designer Beta 1 Download

Microsoft Expression Tools - Tours and Demos

I'll be talking on Microsoft Expression Web in the upcoming JAXDUG ASP.NET SIG meeting on Thursday, September 14th. I'll introduce the suite of Microsoft Expression products and then focus on the power of Expression Web. Expression Web helps in creating superior user experiences (UX). Note that with the advent of WPF and .NET 3.0, the term UI (User Interfaces) has transformed to UX (User Experiences).

On another note - September CTP for Microsoft Expression is available now. It can be downloaded from here. This CTP targets .NET 3.0 RC1.

Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer September 2006 CTP Download

Read the complete post at http://www.thegenericguy.com/cs/blogs/vinayahuja/archive/2006/09/06/87.aspx