Freeway 4 Express is probably not the software you're looking for if you already have a website that you are looking to maintain. It uses a proprietary format and DOES NOT ALLOW THE IMPORTING OR EDITING OF PREXISTING HTML.

This is highly significant if, for example, you already have a web site that you are looking to make minor changes to. Since you cannot import the pre-existing web pages into the software for editing, you are forced to RE-CREATE every page in the site. For smaller sites this might not be a problem, but my site contains about eighty HTML documents. Redrawing each individual page is not an option for me.

Additionally, documentation is absolutely worthless, since the software is bundled with a manual for Freeway PRO (the $279 version). This manual will take you step-by-step through functions and activities that ARE NOT PRESENT in the Express version of the software. You'll spend, as I did, hours of wasted time trying to do a simple task (like import pre-existing HTML for editing) only to discover on the technical support website that the feature you're trying to use is not available in the version of the software you purchased. This is asinine. It's like trying to navigate New York with a road map of DC. Who wants a manual for a piece of software they didn't buy?

Personally, I am extremely aggravated that none of this is listed on the box. The fact that Freeway 4 Express does not edit web sites that already exist should be clearly evident on the EXTERIOR of the package. You should not be forced to purchase the software, open it (making it non-returnable), before discovering that it does not perform the tasks you specifically bought it to accomplish.

I recommend NVU. This is a completely free software that allows editing of all forms of HTML in a WYSIWYG manner. Unfortunately it is somewhat buggy, but it's also $99 less than Freeway 4 Express-- and lets you do the most basic web editing task: adjust pre-existing HTML.

Furthermore, Freeway 4 Express is supposed to be WYSIWYG. If you select a font and style (bold, italics, justified, etc) you should be reasonably certain that the output format will contain that font and that selected style.

Not if you're using Freeway 4 Express. No matter what you select, imported text generally shifts to the default "proportional" font, which is Trebuchet. Setting the default font does absolutely nothing. Checking the HTML codes for the outputted pages shows that incorrect style codes are being outputted, REGARDLESS OF THE STYLE YOU SELECT.

The software has an annoying habit of crashing unexpectedly as you work on these issues, and very little is more frustrating for a web author with limited experience that is behind a time crunch than beating your head against software that ignores you.

If you enjoy frustration, and fighting software that doesn't do what the authors claim it does, then Freeway 4 Express is for you. If you're normal, however, you definitely want to avoid this product.