![]() ![]() This is a no brainer - Very high on "the list." Cheers, Kevin. $50 is a price point to capture market share - this is typically going to be new coders anything which makes learning easier, will endear the product them and you typically you stay with what you learn. I think having the two screens next to each other is a very much an ease of use issue for a newbies, especially given all the new large monitors. ![]() ![]() How many times have I typed in the design window only to later realize I have created "spans" everywhere, or I changed things in the code window that now give me a completely broke page. The ability to try learn all this stuff goes up dramatically when you can type in either window and see the good or bad results right away. At $50 bucks, I have to believe, I am a large portion of the target market. I wanted Dreamweaver, but I picked MS Expression, because I could afford $49 with all the other expenses of a new business. At the same time, I'm trying to write copy for the website understand SEO (so I don't have to do it all over later) and hopefully make an appealing website (two more books and we have not even addressed flash yet). I'm actually working concurrently with three books at one time: A book on HTML, a book on CSS, and a book on how to use Expression. I'm "coding" for the first time, trying to put up a site for my a new home business. Me thinks MS is totally missing the mark on it's market with this issue. It significantly helps the design process. Glad to hear that I am not alone when it comes to using split view all the time. Who works exclusively in Split View, hand-coding my markup and CSS. I am pretty sure and very hopeful that Expression Web team would not be using Dreamweaver as their benchmark or be waiting for DW to add some feature first and hope for the best for Expression Web. I'm guessing that there just wasn't that much demand for it or it would have been done earlier. Dreamweaver didn't get vertical split in the UI until. Also, many a times, when I need to insert code on the site, instead of reading every line in the code view, it saves time to simply click at the area to edit (or insert new function) in design view and view the corresponding code view.One of the main reason to use Expression Web, instead of notepad is to be able to see design view while editing.To put it in simpler words, currently most websites designed generally designed with width equal to or less than 970px.How many lines in your code actually fill up the full width in widescreen monitor?.Having vertical split would mean, one can have a bigger code and design window.Thanks for reminding me that, it might make more sense to some if I use simpler words. Why? do you glance left and right faster than you do up and down? MS MVP Expression Tutorials & Help and online instructor led So that's probably another reason I don't tend to work with applications wide enough for a vertical split. Since I don't work 100% or even 90% of my time at my desk with the wide monitor I find it better to keep individual windows such that they will fit in my laptop screen with enough room to grab another application easily to bring it to the front as needed. I also frequently work on my tablet when it isn't docked so then I'm limited to 1024x800 on a 12" screen. Typically I'll have 4-8 programs open at the same time (Outlook, IE, Expression and/or Dreamweaver, graphic program, Firefox, maybe Opera, Windows Mail (newsgroups), Word, SnagIt, whatever else for what I'm working on. (I use both Dreamweaver and Expression depending on the site.) I never have less than 2 programs open and that's when I first get started in the morning. I use that extra space to have multiple programs open like Fireworks on one side and whatever web editor I'm using at the moment on the other. FWIW, I have a 24" monitor sitting on my desk and I don't split anything vertically.
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