Expression Web 3, the latest version of Microsoft’s excellent web designing tool has just received a Service Pack 1 update. If you have Expression Web 3 installed and have enabled Windows Update, then it should appear as an important update. This update brings both bug fixes as well as improvements to Expression Web and SuperPreview.
Application icons are an integral part of a software as much as its UI. To be able to have icons that help users identify your applications at a glance is a design win. Since Microsoft has new software or new versions of software being developed all the time, it is interesting to go through the different types of icons they use for different applications. Let’s take a brief look at these icons.
Expression Studio 3, which was released as a 60 day trial yesterday, is now available for MSDN ( Microsoft Developer Network ) subscribers to download.
Expression Studio 3 has been released as a free 60 day trial version. This is the first of a series of screenshot galleries of Expression Studio 3. This first batch of screenshots focuses on the setup and installation experience:
Microsoft Expression Studio 3, the creativity suite that helps designers and and developers in designing rich internet and desktop applications and experiences, has been released as a 60 days free trial version on Microsoft Downloads website along with individual downloads of Expression Web 3, Expression Design 3 and Expression Encoder 3. Expression Blend 3 was already released as a trial some time ago (check out a detailed list of new features in Blend 3 and Web) Here’s a quick look at what’s new in each of these new releases:
Expression Studio 3 will be released today with a huge list of new features. At the time of writing, www.seethelight.com shows 238 more minutes to go. If you’re really impatient you can try out the Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow RC, or carry on reading to find out the new features you’ll find in Expression Studio 3.
Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow is a visual tool for designing and prototyping desktop and web applications. You build an application by drawing shapes, drawing controls such as buttons and list boxes, making the pieces of your application respond to mouse clicks and other user input, and styling everything to look uniquely your own.
Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow RC is now available for download on Microsoft Download Center. It was previously released as a preview only but didn’t have SketchFlow. The download is around 71.2MB.
The release notes aren’t up yet but will be available here. Here are the system requirements: