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Microsoft has just released Expression Web 2. It’s a standards-based design tool that allows web designers to create, develop, and maintain exceptional sites with less time and effort. Microsoft Expression Web 2 is part of the Expression Studio 2 product suite. Expression Web 2 caters to web designers of all abilities. It delivers significant improvements on Microsoft FrontPage, yet offers the ease of use that made its predecessor so popular.

It features an easy-to-use WYSIWYG user interface that allows web designers to switch between layout and code views, so they can easily keep track of the look and feel of their projects.

Expression Web 2 uses a CSS-based page layout to deliver down-to-the-pixel control. This powerful tool enables precise page formatting and allows elements to be positioned exactly where they’re wanted. Expression Web 2 offers easier code editing with support for ASP.NET, XML or PHP. Web designers can preview PHP pages in their web browser without installing a separate development server or having to upload their website to a server. Expression Web 2 also enables web designers to easily import interactive content from Silverlight and Flash, or layered artwork from Adobe Photoshop.

Net24's Windows web hosting plans fully support the technologies required to host Expression Web 2 created web sites. View our Windows web hosting plans.

For more information and resources about Expression Web 2, check out www.microsoft.co.nz/expression.

You can also purchase Expression Web 2 from Dick Smith Electronic Online Store or download Expression Web 2 from Microsoft's secure digital download site at www.microsoft.co.nz/expression

We are pleased to announce that after completing a recent upgrade our ColdFusion hosting plans have been upgraded from ColdFusion MX 7 to ColdFusion 8.

With a host of new features, dramatically improved performance and scalability, and easier integration with enterprise IT environments, Adobe ColdFusion 8 is a must-have release for ColdFusion developers.

New in ColdFusion 8:

• PDF Features
  ColdFusion 8 applications can dynamically generate and interact with PDF documents and forms for a printable, portable way to intelligently capture and share information.
  
  
• Ajax Features
  ColdFusion 8 can easily provide data to existing Ajax applications and frameworks. You can use simple tags to access a large library of prebuilt Ajax user interface components such as rich text editors, data grids, tree controls, tab navigators, and more.
  
  
• .NET Intergration
  With ColdFusion 8, you can specify any .NET object — either local or remote — and use it in your ColdFusion application, just like any Java™ or other object resource.
  

Plans start from $24.95 + GST per month for 25MB of disk space with free setup.

For more information on the latest features of Adobe ColdFusion 8 visit http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/

View our ColdFusion 8 hosting plans below or call us on 0800 5000 24 for more information.

As part of the recent upgrades to the Online Backup Service version 5.2.4 of the Online Backup Manager (OBM) has been released. This release includes feature enhancements and bug fixes including:

• Support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 / 2007
• Support for backups and restore of individual mail and contact
  items in Exchange Server (known has brick level backups).
• Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
• Better support for multiple computers utilising same OBS account.

View our Online Backup Service section for more information and sign-up for a free 30 day trial.

Windows hosting plans have been upgraded to support ISAPI_Rewrite 3. This is a major upgrade from version 2 and now supports apache mod_rewrite rules in a .htaccess configuration.

 

More information can be found at the developers web site here: http://www.helicontech.com/isapi_rewrite/