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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.
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 - it'll only upload only your changes, saving you lots of time.
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.
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.
Freeway 5.4.1 is fully compatible with Snow Leopard. This is a free downloadable update for all owners of Freeway 5 Pro and Freeway 5 Express. This update was released some time ago. No further updating of the Freeway applications has been necessary.
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 - it'll only upload only your changes, saving you lots of time.
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.
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.
Freeway 5.4.1 is fully compatible with Snow Leopard. This is a free downloadable update for all owners of Freeway 5 Pro and Freeway 5 Express. This update was released some time ago. No further updating of the Freeway applications has been necessary.
What's new in this version:
- Fixed a problem with importing Illustrator files.
- Live preview of CSS Menus now works correctly when external stylesheets are used.
- Fixed a conflict between differently aligned menus in the CSS Menus Action.
- Fixed a problem with the CSS Menus Action outputting redundant code under certain circumstances.
- Fixed a problem when uploading files with long file names using File copy or MobileMe.
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
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| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (5.0) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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Good software. Subpar documentation. Great tech support 
- Version: 5.4.2, 10/24/2009 11:20AM PST
clinto--2008
Does exactly what I needed - Version: 5.4.1, 10/17/2009 10:12PM PST
SenorRamos
I had been producing graphic intensive web sites for years, but was always been frustrated by the numerous steps to get graphics, text and multimedia in the appropriate format from source data to the web page. Initially I coded my sites with html, but with changes in browsers, I kept running into compliance issues. So I gave it up for a long time until I needed to produce a web site for myself.
With the advances in WYSIWYG web development software, I was sure I would find a strategy that would help me. After trying Dreamweaver and a couple of others, I was discouraged. But just before going back to generating my own code I ran across a podcast about Freeway Express on iTunes. I watched and thought it was to good to be true. So after downloading the demo and trying it (following the podcast tutorial) for a couple of hours, I forked over the $79 bucks and have been happy as a clam ever since. I built an entire website in one night (8 hours give or take) from scratch!
Basically it take the tragedy of coding, formatting and media conversion out of the creative process. I think its fantastic and would encourage any one else to at least try it.
With the advances in WYSIWYG web development software, I was sure I would find a strategy that would help me. After trying Dreamweaver and a couple of others, I was discouraged. But just before going back to generating my own code I ran across a podcast about Freeway Express on iTunes. I watched and thought it was to good to be true. So after downloading the demo and trying it (following the podcast tutorial) for a couple of hours, I forked over the $79 bucks and have been happy as a clam ever since. I built an entire website in one night (8 hours give or take) from scratch!
Basically it take the tragedy of coding, formatting and media conversion out of the creative process. I think its fantastic and would encourage any one else to at least try it.
Freeway Express is awesome - Version: 5.1.2, 6/30/2008 05:31AM PST
(2 of 2 users found this comment useful)
ekfphoto
I cannot express my level of happiness to find Freeway Express. I am a past Dreamweaver user, and while I can't write HTML, I learned How to use it in order to build my site years ago. I needed to do an update recently, and realized that the version of Dreamweaver I had was 5 years old, and the new version was prohibitively expensive at $399.
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.
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.
Initially, I was overwhelmed. The manual is more than 400 pages long and tough to read. The video tutorials are moderately helpful, but they omit a lot of details. My first 3 or 4 days of working with this product went pretty slowly.
But - here's the bright point - the tech support is excellent. Honestly, it's probably the best I've ever encountered. They take time to read and understand your questions, and they provide detailed answers with good explanations. And they add more information (beyond your question) - anticipating other things that might confuse you, such as explaining why to use a particular image format in a particular situation.
After a few emails with the Softpress tech support, I felt much more comfortable using Freeway, and work on the web site went much more smoothly.
I didn't try the Pro version - but the Express version has everything (and probably more) that an amateur web site developer would need. And once I got the hang of using the program, I found it very easy to use.
The tech support people could probably reduce their workload a lot by either improving the manual or by posting more (and better) video tutorials on their web site. If the manuals or video tutorials were better, I would probably give 5 stars. On the other hand, if tech support had not come to my rescue so well (and if I had to rely on the manual and the existing tutorials) I would probably give 3 stars. As is, this product earns a solid 4 star rating.
BTW, a few other people have complained about lack of multiple Undos. I haven't found a need for multiple undos. Occasionally I use a single undo. If a really screw something up, I just delete the screwed up item and recreate it. The software is so easy to use, that it's pretty painless to have to do that.
Note: I almost never write software reviews, but the tech support was so stellar that I felt compelled to post this.