Expression Blend, Visual Studio, Silverlight and .NET provide a seamless design and development workflow. Ideas evolve from your initial prototyping with SketchFlow, a feature included with Expression Studio Ultimate, to the completed project quickly and effectively, enabling you to create compelling applications for your customers.Microsoft Expression web gives you the tools you need - PHP, HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, visual diagnostics, cross-browser debugging features and sophisticated CSS design capability - to produce high-quality, standards-based web sites.With Expression Encoder Pro, encode a wide array of video file formats, stream live, or screen capture your PC. Make simple edits and enhance your media with overlays and advertising. Choose from a range of player templates and publish rich media experiences with Microsoft Silverlight.Microsoft Expression Design 4 is the perfect companion to Expression Blend or Expression Web. Leverage existing artwork or use drawing tools to quickly build vector assets with their fidelity maintained throughout the entire design-development workflow.

– Quickly create an effective prototype to present ideas, user interface flows, screen layouts, and application functionality to your clients
– Bring a project to life by adding control of transitions, interactivity, and animation to your applications with the Behaviors feature
– Accelerate the speed and flexibility with which you can create your application designs through the effective use of sample data
– Generate design-time data on the fly, import via XML, or create from C# objects, then seamlessly swap for a live data connection at any time
– Create elegant, modern CSS layouts with state-of-the-art, editable design surface with the ability to directly manipulate positioning, sizing, margins, and padding
– Debug web pages with Snapshot Preview, which shows rendered page changes while you code, and SuperPreview, which displays your page on multiple browsers on your development machine
– Prepare video for Silverlight—encode a wide array of video file formats, stream live from webcams and camcorders, or screen capture your PC with Expression Encoder
– Import Photoshop files layer by layer, regroup them, and allow individual elements to retain their original formats, layers, layer positions, editable text, and vectors

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– Includes Expression Blend 4 + SketchFlow, Expression 4 Web Professional, Expression Design 4, and Expression Encoder 4 Pro
– Design compelling user interfaces for the web and desktop
– Fast, flexible, seamless workflow adapts to you and your team
– Professional tools save time, creating web sites that deliver results
– Advanced visual diagnostics speed debugging
– Web supports PHP, CSS, HTML/XHTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript, ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, Windows Media, Adobe Flash, and Adobe Photoshop files
– Great for small business