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Visual Studio Community 2015 vs. Expression Web 4

Both VS Community 2015 and EW4 are free.

Which one would you recommend for development of a web site? Here are two options I am considering:

1. An HTML5/CSS3 large web site without ASP.NET;  obviously, EW4 will do; but what would one miss or gain by using VS Community 2015 instead of EW4 in this case? Are the previewing and publishing features as strong or better in VS?

2. A large site with a small integrated ASP.NET web app (4-5 aspx pages). Which of those tools does a better job?

By "large site" I mean a large number (hundreds or thousands) of static HTML pages that would take typing, images, formatting, spell checking.

VS Community 2015 is new, EW4 is 4 years old. Is VS a better choice in terms of built-in standards for HTML5 and CSS3?  But it's not explicitly a web development tool (or an HTML page editor) and I suspect it lacks some of the advanced options in previewing and publishing (those are important to me).

Your experience with these tools would be a great help!
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Expression Web 4 appears to be no longer supported.  More info here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/expression/jj712700.aspx
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In the meantime I also found some info on this at:

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/expression/en-US/2c973111-1f94-44f8-93a4-cdf6ec8bfe9f/action?threadDisplayName=expression&forum=web

look for comment by Peter, really worth it