Expression Web 1.0 (Includes Software Assurance) (Libraries Program)

Admin Fee:
$12.00 USD
Partner:
Microsoft - MLDP 
Platform:
Windows
Product ID:
LS-41213
Media:
Open Licensing

Actual Product Not Shown
Open License(s) and Media Supplied

Availability:
Discontinued
This product has been generously donated in support of the nonprofit community.

Description

Expression Web builds on and improves the Web authoring technologies of FrontPage, which Microsoft no longer sells but continues to support. Although Expression Web is geared toward professional designers, task panes and menus help beginning users build Web pages without knowing any markup or server code. More advanced creative professionals can build Web sites that fully support Web standards such as Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML), cascading style sheets (CSS), and Extensible Markup Language (XML).

Expression Web can be used to edit the existing page content of Web sites created in any version of FrontPage. However, FrontPage sites using technologies that have been superseded will have to be adapted to the new technologies.

An example of a new technology is the ASP.NET Web application framework, which is supported by an extensive toolbox in the design interface. Also, ASP.NET pages can be viewed on the design workstation without the need to have a Web server on a separate computer.

Technologies such as PHP and JSP can be used in Expression Web sites, but the application has no tools that specifically support them.

Expression Web supports the accessibility standards of WCAG and Section 508 (29 U.S.C. 794d) and includes built-in accessibility checkers for verifying Web sites against these requirements.

Installing this product requires a license key and installation media. If you don't already have it, please request the free installation media when prompted during checkout. No physical product will be sent unless you request the installation media. After your order is processed, instructions for obtaining the license key will be sent to your organization email address.

Features

  • Under the Software Assurance program, customers acquire the right to install any new release of products covered in the agreement during the term of their coverage.
  • Expression Web shares a common project file format with Visual Studio, which enables designers using Expression Web and developers using Visual Studio to open and edit the same projects.
  • CSS design tools allow direct manipulation of positioning, sizing, margins, and padding. CSS styles developed on the page can be migrated to a central repository.
  • Typing aids and IntelliSense in the Code View increase the speed and efficiency of the process.
  • XML files can be dragged and dropped and then immediately rendered by an XSL style sheet so that they can be reformatted to match a Web site's style.

System Requirements

  • Hardware:
    • 700-MHz (or higher) processor
    • 512 MB or more RAM
    • 1.5 GB available hard-disk space
    • 1024x768-pixel (or higher) display
    • CD or DVD drive
  • Software:
    • Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2); Windows Server 2003 with SP1; Windows Vista

Restrictions

Donated product will be distributed under this program to qualifying libraries only, not to individuals. Only public libraries are eligible to participate in the Microsoft Public Libraries Software Donation Program. U.S. public libraries must either have valid 501(c)(3) nonprofit status or be listed in the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) database. Canadian public libraries must appear on a list collected for us by the Public Library Services Branch, Ministry of Education in British Columbia. Qualified public libraries may request Microsoft software donations through this program for public access computers only (donated software may not be used for back-office or other administration purposes, unless the public computers are on a shared network which also hosts the personal computers of library staff). Participating libraries must also make their collection and basic services available to the population of their legal service area without charges to individual users (excluding incidental fees such as printing charges). If they so choose, libraries may impose charges on users outside the legal service area, and may provide products and services (beyond basic services), to the public at large, with or without individual charges. Each qualified public library may request up to six titles, and up to 50 licenses per title per two-year period.
Exceptions:
  • For server titles, one server license per title and up to 50 Client Access Licenses (CALs) may be requested (i.e. customers may not order two copies of the same server title).
  • Server licenses with accompanying CALS will together count as two separate titles towards the six-title limit.
Customers may order additional licenses of software titles that they already received through TechSoup Stock (as part of their previous order within the two-year ordering cycle). This is true even if the current title is an upgraded version of the original software. Such orders will not count against the 6-title limit. However, the total number of licenses requested for this title (between the two orders) may not exceed 50. Each qualified public library will be eligible to make one donation request for Microsoft products and licenses each year through TechSoup Stock (for example, a library that ordered on 10/1/05 may place a new order on 10/1/06). Though libraries may order twice (once per year) within a two-year period, the combined total of products ordered in a two-year period may not exceed six titles and 50 user licenses per title (or one license per server title). Once two years have passed since a library's original order, these limits will be reset (for example, a customer that placed an order on 10/1/05 may order six new titles and 50 licenses per title (or one license per server title) on 10/1/07). Microsoft products are not available for distribution to the following libraries:
  • Private libraries, including those open to the public
  • Academic libraries
  • K-12 school libraries
  • Special libraries, including those defined as "corporate," "religious," "medical," or "legal"
  • Armed forces libraries
  • Libraries in government agencies
Donations will be fulfilled using Microsoft Open Licensing. This means that boxed (full packaged) products and paper licenses will not be shipped to charities and nonprofits through this program. Instead, an email will arrive with an authorization number for approved requests and directions to go to a Microsoft Web page to download licensing agreements. Software media (CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs) will be sent directly from Microsoft via air mail. Each order must include a minimum of five "seats" - 1 License = 1 Seat, each license counts individually towards the five licenses total. More information about the five-seat minimum is available in the Microsoft Public Libraries Software Donation Program FAQ. Microsoft may, at its sole discretion, provide "functionally equivalent" substitute product(s) for any request or order. Organizations that advocate, support, or practice discrimination based on age, ethnicity, gender, national origin, disability, race, size, religion, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background are not eligible to participate in this program. Organizations must be willing and able to attest that they do not discriminate on any of these grounds in order to receive donations. Microsoft products may not be transferred or resold. Additionally, Microsoft products may not be installed on computers that will be given to or sold to other organizations or individuals.