Publisher's Description
From Softpress Systems:
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 5.4.2 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: New Features
- Added native support for Intaglio files *
- The CSS Menus Action now allows the width of a submenu to change when the main menu is set to Use Content Width
- The CSS Menus Action now displays the highlighted current page in the Live Preview
- The CSS Menus Action now correctly highlights the current page when multiple menus are used on a page
- Menus generated by the CSS Menus Action now align correctly in Camino
- Fixed... See all new features
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"Good software. Subpar documentation. GREAT support."
Version: Freeway Express 5.4.2
Pros
Very easy to use - after an initial learning curve. Full featured. Reasonable price. Great tech support.
Cons
User manual and video tutorials need improvement.
Summary
I don't know one thing about HTML code, and I'm not a professional web site designer or developer - just a guy who wanted to completely overhaul his web site. I downloaded the trial version of Freeway Express 5.4.2, watched the video tutorials, then started working on my web site.
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, or 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.
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