Microsoft® Word 2010 In Depth

22. Developing Online-Delivered Content

Web Page Development: Word’s Strengths and Weaknesses

Word 2010 is a viable choice for the nonprofessional web designer who may be already familiar with Word but reluctant to learn a new application. Using Word, even people with no HTML programming language experience can create basic web pages with ease. However, Word lacks most of the high-end web design features of an application such as Microsoft Expression Web or Macromedia Dreamweaver, so someone who does web design for a living would likely not choose Word for that work.

Word makes web design easy by shielding the user from the raw coding, instead allowing the user to work in a familiar WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) environment in which ...