Hi,
I'm a designer. That means I design. I position elements on a page, move them around freely, get the balanmce right. I don't equete typing code to designing. That's like doing lines, or homework.

I know the code heads are keen to see everyone hammering away at keyboards typing in arcane commands, but designers tend not to work like that. We like to see out layout, make descisions and affect them instanely. We've been allowed that for years with apps like Quark Express, Freehand, Illustrator etc.. Since when is it a crime to allow this kind of paradigm for web design?

It isn't. If typing HTML floats your boat, an d you can SEE the layout by looking at a page or so of bewildering text, then fine. Go ahead. What you should not do is sink those people who have visual talents that are best expressed using DTP like software.

Using Freeway is a liberating experience. I don't have to worry about the HTML because I know that Freeway does a damn fine job with it. I have control over the layout in a way that makes ultimate sense to me, and I know I can produce a site far, far quicker with it than with BBEdit, Dreamweaver etc..

Granted, HTML import is an issue. I'm hoping that Sodtpress can nail that one in the future, but it isn't too hard a job to recreate a site in Freeway using master pages and Actions.