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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 - Âit'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 - Âit'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:
- Added Simplified Chinese localization
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.
It does EXACTLY what it claims - Version: 5.1, 5/11/2008 09:53PM PST
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SenorRamos
Its been 11 years since I last encoded any HTML. I am relearning the language, but could not postpone the generation of my website any longer. After reading the reviews from VersionTracker, I downloaded and installed this version of Freeway Express.
It did exactly what it claimed. My site was up and running in less than a weekend. This was from scratch with only a couple of sketches that I scribbled in my notebook. I must admit, it took me a couple of hours of back and forth between the User Manual, the Video Tutorial and my website before I got a good understanding of the tools and how to use them, but 12 hours later, I had a fully functional website without ever having to code a thing!
But don't take my word for it, check it out for yourself at www.asquared-inc.com. As for editing the site, Freeway Express takes responsibility for its own coding. I simple open the FreewayExpress file and it manages all of the website files, even if you rename them!
Sure if you have an existing web site, Freeway Express will not open and edit them for you. It is unreasonable for any HTML generator to interpret the way that another application organized and encoded a specific web site. Heck its tough enough to read the current version of HTML generated by most web site builder programs, let alone trying to tweak it with something other than a text editor like BBEdit, TextEdit or TextMate.
I highly recommend this app for newbies and expert alike. Its a real time saver since you don't have to CODE a thing.
It did exactly what it claimed. My site was up and running in less than a weekend. This was from scratch with only a couple of sketches that I scribbled in my notebook. I must admit, it took me a couple of hours of back and forth between the User Manual, the Video Tutorial and my website before I got a good understanding of the tools and how to use them, but 12 hours later, I had a fully functional website without ever having to code a thing!
But don't take my word for it, check it out for yourself at www.asquared-inc.com. As for editing the site, Freeway Express takes responsibility for its own coding. I simple open the FreewayExpress file and it manages all of the website files, even if you rename them!
Sure if you have an existing web site, Freeway Express will not open and edit them for you. It is unreasonable for any HTML generator to interpret the way that another application organized and encoded a specific web site. Heck its tough enough to read the current version of HTML generated by most web site builder programs, let alone trying to tweak it with something other than a text editor like BBEdit, TextEdit or TextMate.
I highly recommend this app for newbies and expert alike. Its a real time saver since you don't have to CODE a thing.
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.