If you’re looking to upgrade from the ancient and showing it Microsoft FrontPage 2003, check out Microsoft Expression Web. It’s a full-bore web design tool for the professional as well as the casual web site builder.

CSS was a hurried add-on for FrontPage 2003. It felt like it was jammed in at the last moment, and probably was. In Expression Web, CSS is an inherent part of the process and can be implemented in any number of ways. This is just one of the many new features.

If you’re familiar with FrontPage, you’ll have little trouble learning how Expression Web works, as the look-and-feel is quite similar.

Best of all, if you have FrontPage, Office, or any of a number of other products, you can upgrade for a mere $99.

Lynda.com has an excellent training video for it.

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Did anyone think in 2004 that Democrats would deliver a whoop-ass licking to Republicans in 2008 and that an African-American would be elected president? No one that I can recall.

Early speculation by Republicans about who may be their candidate in 2012 is pointless and a bit comical.

When one party gets stomped in the polls, for the first few weeks at least, they often loudly proclaim how they are already organizing for the next election and that the other side had better watch out. Then reality sets in and they see just how much power they have lost and how long back their road really is.

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The police lieutenant who came to copy down those threats deadpanned that he hoped the guy who was going to shoot me got there before the guy who was going to waterboard me, since it would be most foul to be tortured and then shot.

The good news was that every time McCain or Palin mentioned my name, they lost a point or two in the polls. The cartoon invented to hurt Obama poked holes in the rapidly sinking McCain-Palin ship.

In a robust and sophisticated democracy, political leaders – and all of us – ought to seek ways to talk with many people who hold dissenting, or even radical, ideas. Lacking that simple and yet essential capacity to question authority, we might still be burning witches and enslaving our fellow human beings today.

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More on our previous post and Flickr

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The Chinese Finance Minister was recalled hurriedly from a conference in Peru because of “an economic problem,” will not attend a Group of Twenty meeting in Brazil this weekend, and possibly not even the Washington summit next week.

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How do we do it?

By investing in three core areas – energy efficiency, renewable generation and a national unified smart grid.

Repower America is an Al Gore-affiliated group. He’s quite right, we need clean energy and we need it now. Obama has said this is one of his primary goals. Let’s all make it so.

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