Freeway web software review

I still have a quick-reference version of HTML 2. I even figured out how to split a photo into multiple pieces, superimpose text over the top, and re-assemble the photo on a Web site with each piece as a button for a different page.

I thought I was pretty smooth. As programming for the Web matured, however, I quickly lost track of the standards, and while I know enough about what the different coded elements do, these days I have only the most basic idea of how these elements are coded and assembled into the Web sites of Freeway works like many Web site authoring applications: you create a new site file, and it creates a package of content that contains each page within the site, images and media files, CSS files, and other supporting files.

This is messier when it comes to Spotlight indexing and file management, but it is a more transparent and open system for storing the contents. Text, images, media, background elements—all are easily added, changed, adjusted, removed. Freeway includes a number of ways to customize text, and will export text as a GIF if necessary, to preserve font and style changes.

Images are highly editable within Freeway, allowing rotation, scaling, cropping, and even skew adjustments; further edits can be applied directly without reloading the image , even if done in an external editor. What is more, any part of the CSS can be altered simply, with an entirely graphical menu and dialog system. Fortunately, Softpress has provided a comprehensive user manual, as well as a good bit of tutorial online. In many other ways, it also feels like a contemporary Mac program.

It utilizes a two-pane view, with the files for the different pages of your site in a sidebar pane, while the main content is in the large primary pane.

The toolbar across the top of the window—customizable, of course—is, again, like many Mac applications; easily identifiable buttons for adding objects and other tools pop down into menus, replicating the most common menu commands for quick access from the main window. And it utilizes an inspector for editing the properties of the documents and objects.

A recent update brought some love for iPhones—and those who want to develop Web sites that are friendly to them. The genius of the application is, as much as anything, the ability to connect all of these pieces together and filling in the blanks, producing a usable and reliable Web site. Not so with Freeway. Subway Surfers.

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Windows Windows. Most Popular. New Releases. Desktop Enhancements. Networking Software. Trending from CNET. You can have a gallery up and running in just a few minutes — a refreshing change, since this was a tedious manual job in older versions of Freeway.

It's good to see the developers implement a new feature so seamlessly. Freeway 5. North America. Home Reviews. The new Showcase program makes gallery and slideshow creation extremely easy. For Powerful layout controls Built-in web image optimising Actions add many new features Technical issues auto-handled. While Freeway offers many website-creation features, it lags behind modern design applications in some frustrating ways. These feel like unnecessary limitations in Direct access to iLife libraries is included only in Showcase, which loads your iPhoto library and the contents of your Pictures folder, adding a layer of complexity to working with many media files.

Despite the aforementioned flaws, Freeway 6 Pro is worth considering for more experienced users who want to build full-featured sites without touching code or being confined by templates.