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A purpose-built page layout application for the Web, Freeway gives you all the legendary ease-of-use and features that launched the desktop publishing revolution.
With Freeway, you can quickly and effortlessly lay out your website, embed images and content, then publish your work as clean, standards-compliant HTML, and upload to your server, to .Mac, or to a folder. Freeway's smart about publishing - ÃÂÃÂit'll only upload only your changes, saving you lots of time.
Spend your time designing, not coding. Let Freeway handle the heavy lifting.
Multimedia is a snap: embed Flash, QuickTime, YouTube content and more in seconds. E-commerce? Freeway comes with a free solution that allows you to make everything catalog pages right through to your shopping cart.
Freeway is fully extendable - it ships with a large assortment of Actions to expand functionality - rollovers, CSS menus, embedded Google Maps, or make-your-own Blogger templates. Dozens more are downloadable for web galleries, content management systems and form management.
With excellent free and responsive telephone and email technical support, Freeway is the tool of choice for serious web designers, or anyone who wants to express themselves on the Web.
You supply the creativity. Freeway handles the code.
With Freeway, you can quickly and effortlessly lay out your website, embed images and content, then publish your work as clean, standards-compliant HTML, and upload to your server, to .Mac, or to a folder. Freeway's smart about publishing - ÃÂÃÂit'll only upload only your changes, saving you lots of time.
Spend your time designing, not coding. Let Freeway handle the heavy lifting.
Multimedia is a snap: embed Flash, QuickTime, YouTube content and more in seconds. E-commerce? Freeway comes with a free solution that allows you to make everything catalog pages right through to your shopping cart.
Freeway is fully extendable - it ships with a large assortment of Actions to expand functionality - rollovers, CSS menus, embedded Google Maps, or make-your-own Blogger templates. Dozens more are downloadable for web galleries, content management systems and form management.
With excellent free and responsive telephone and email technical support, Freeway is the tool of choice for serious web designers, or anyone who wants to express themselves on the Web.
You supply the creativity. Freeway handles the code.
What's new in this version:
- Fixed a crash that occurred when publishing a site after adding a new folder in the Site panel
- Fixed a crash that occurred when saving a document with font variations after font substitution
- Fixed a crash that could occur when applying an outer glow to an HTML item with a sliced background image
- Fixed a crash that could occasionally occur when selecting some HTML items when Freeway was running under PPC
- Fixed a bug that caused text to be clipped on output in inflow boxes on pages with padding (in Freeway Express)
- Margins are output (as hspace/vspace) for inline graphics in HTML 3.2
- Pass-through content can be output with its original filename
- Margins are output on non-CSS HTML inflow items
- Folder matching for pass-through content in the Site folder now works again (broken in Freeway 4)
- The target attribute is no longer output for XHTML Strict and HTML 4 Strict
- Fixed a bug that prevented CSS Menu submenus appearing in IE7
- Made the RSS Feed Action's language behavior more clear
- Fixed a bug that would prevent multiple CSS Menus from previewing
- Fixed a bug in the RSS Feed Action that set the language value as null
- Fixed a JavaScript error in the Text Link Style Action
- Fixed two translation issues in the Scanlines Action in the Italian localization
- Fixed the translation of the page-size menu in Chinese
- Fixed the translation of the Using Freeway menu option in the Chinese localization
- Fixed a bug that prevented parts of the Sound FX Action from being translated
- Fixed a bug that caused fwBigPrompt to fail when Freeway was running in Italian
- Fixed a bug that prevented the "stop" button in some progress dialogs from being translated
- Fixed a bug that meant that some fields in the Popup Window Action could not be translated
- Fixed a bug that meant that Text Link to New Window Action label could not be translated
- Freeway now attempts to use localized font style names when there is a viable localization
- Fixed a bug that stopped the page links area from appearing in Freeway Express in non-English builds
- The spell checker no longer ignores words when text begins with a quote
- Margin bounds for non-CSS inflow items are now drawn in the CSS colour
- Fixed a problem with padding where text in an item would overflow incorrectly
- Parent table cells now grow if an inflow table grows to accommodate text
- Fit to Content no longer shrinks text items with padding incorrectly
- HTML items which touch no longer cause a text overflow
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
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Looks good, but with some odd omissions - Version: 5.1.2, 6/19/2008 11:59AM PST
chris540
I'm a total newbie to Freeway, having downloaded the demo of this version when it first appeared. I am an iWeb user, but I'm looking for something that gives me more control over the site and also, and more importantly, generates cleaner, more accessible, more standards-compliant code.
Having had a bash with Freeway for about 24 hours, it looks ideal. Except for some very strange weaknesses.
1. No multiple undos. How strange is this? Every modern Mac program I can think of supports multiple undos; most of the non-modern ones do too. If you are like me, you will, in the design stage tend to move elements around at speed, just seeing how things work. You might style things up, adding a tint here, changing a font, adding a drop shadow. And when you realise the result is rubbish, you want to roll back. Except you can't. I'm not going to save the project before making each change, it really slows down work-flow.
2. No graduated tints. OK, this may seem trivial, but it is an example of the kind of simple thing that iWeb does well that Freeway can't cope with: A text box with a graduated tint. I'm not even talking radial graduations.
Once I'd discovered those two little problems, my initial extreme enthusiasm started to wane. I'm going to carry on looking through the documention and putting together a site for testing, but I'm not sure if I'll end up using it.
Having had a bash with Freeway for about 24 hours, it looks ideal. Except for some very strange weaknesses.
1. No multiple undos. How strange is this? Every modern Mac program I can think of supports multiple undos; most of the non-modern ones do too. If you are like me, you will, in the design stage tend to move elements around at speed, just seeing how things work. You might style things up, adding a tint here, changing a font, adding a drop shadow. And when you realise the result is rubbish, you want to roll back. Except you can't. I'm not going to save the project before making each change, it really slows down work-flow.
2. No graduated tints. OK, this may seem trivial, but it is an example of the kind of simple thing that iWeb does well that Freeway can't cope with: A text box with a graduated tint. I'm not even talking radial graduations.
Once I'd discovered those two little problems, my initial extreme enthusiasm started to wane. I'm going to carry on looking through the documention and putting together a site for testing, but I'm not sure if I'll end up using it.
Looks good, but with some odd omissions - Version: 5.1.2, 6/19/2008 11:58AM PST
chris540
I'm a total newbie to Freeway, having downloaded the demo of this version when it first appeared. I am an iWeb user, but I'm looking for something that gives me more control over the site and also, and more importantly, generates cleaner, more accessible, more standards-compliant code.
Having had a bash with Freeway for about 24 hours, it looks ideal. Except for some very strange weaknesses.
1. No multiple undos. How strange is this? Every modern Mac program I can think of supports multiple undos; most of the non-modern ones do too. If you are like me, you will, in the design stage tend to move elements around at speed, just seeing how things work. You might style things up, adding a tint here, changing a font, adding a drop shadow. And when you realise the result is rubbish, you want to roll back. Except you can't. I'm not going to save the project before making each change, it really slows down work-flow.
2. No graduated tints. OK, this may seem trivial, but it is an example of the kind of simple thing that iWeb does well that Freeway can't cope with: A text box with a graduated tint. I'm not even talking radial graduations.
Once I'd discovered those two little problems, my initial extreme enthusiasm started to wane. I'm going to carry on looking through the documention and putting together a site for testing, but I'm not sure if I'll end up using it.
Having had a bash with Freeway for about 24 hours, it looks ideal. Except for some very strange weaknesses.
1. No multiple undos. How strange is this? Every modern Mac program I can think of supports multiple undos; most of the non-modern ones do too. If you are like me, you will, in the design stage tend to move elements around at speed, just seeing how things work. You might style things up, adding a tint here, changing a font, adding a drop shadow. And when you realise the result is rubbish, you want to roll back. Except you can't. I'm not going to save the project before making each change, it really slows down work-flow.
2. No graduated tints. OK, this may seem trivial, but it is an example of the kind of simple thing that iWeb does well that Freeway can't cope with: A text box with a graduated tint. I'm not even talking radial graduations.
Once I'd discovered those two little problems, my initial extreme enthusiasm started to wane. I'm going to carry on looking through the documention and putting together a site for testing, but I'm not sure if I'll end up using it.
I searched for WYSIWYG apps and settled with the Freeway Pro demo. Even that was cheaper, at $249.
Keep in Mind that every WYSIWYG editor acts differently, and as the developer points out many times, the site files from one, dreamweaver for example, are not compatible with another (freeway). So After completing the 3 tutorials, I realized that this program did exactly what I wanted to, and in a smart, intuitive way. I recreated my site in 2 days from scratch, and it is now so easily editable with the Master pages that Freeway taught me to create. Not only that, but I realized that the "Express" version did everything I needed, at only $79!!
Freeway Express is highly recommended.
As with any new program of this sophistication, don't expect to be able to use it without reading the manual or completing the tutorials.
As with a previous review, the only con for me is the lack of multiple undos. But now that I know that it does make me more careful.