|
Freeway is an HTML generator. It is a mature, Mac-only, fully-featured application that works just like a familiar desktop publishing tool— easy, intuitive and not limited by the constraints of templates
or complexity of code. You design what you want to see on the page and Freeway writes all the code necessary to present your ideas on the Web. Freeway’s code is clean, efficient and standards compliant.
Building on Success
Previous versions of Freeway have thrilled designers around the world with a combination of print-quality typography, precision page layout and superb image control. Freeway 5 raises the stakes even higher.
Features
Real CSS Control
Freeway 5 Pro can be used to create CSS (table-less) page layouts using absolute positioning, and exposes the real power of CSS through relative positioning, percentage scaling of all elements, partial styles, and more, and all with the legendary Freeway WYSIWYG design view.
HTML Lists
Freeway 5 has improved support for HTML lists. Most importantly, it is now possible to create nested lists—lists within lists. There is also a new streamlined method for creating lists in the Inspector Palette.
 |
|
 |
| |
HTML Box Background Effects
Freeway 5 can apply background effects to HTML items. This allows you to set graphic effects on HTML items that are similar to those that can be applied to graphic items (see Graphic Effects.) You can use this feature to create HTML boxes with translucent backgrounds, borders, glows, and shadows. Just like this box! |
|
 |
|
 |
 Graphic Box Effects
Freeway 5 adds two new graphic effects (Inner Shadow and Inner Glow), and has an improved interface for applying effects to graphic items. This is similar to the interface for applying background effects to HTML items.
There are five effects to choose from: Outer Shadow, Inner Shadow, Outer Glow, Inner Glow, and Foreground.
Editable Graphic Text
Use any font installed on your Mac to create graphic headlines or other decorative elements. All of the effects above can be applied to the text—even on a character by character basis. Use advanced kerning, tracking, baseline shift, and more to refine your typographical message. Use any color or combination of colors you like. When you publish, a graphic will be created out of the text. The text remains editable within Freeway.
Transparency
Freeway 5 takes the idea of a fully transparent graphic compositing engine to the next level. Any object on the page, even characters of type, can have transparency or variable opacity.
When you overlap two transparent objects, Freeway will either composite them together, or maintain them as separate layered objects in the final layout. Anti-aliasing to blend overlapping colors is automatically calculated.
Freeway 5 Pro supports transparent images from Photoshop, Illustrator and Freehand, Fireworks, and many other applications. |
|
The Advantage
Some of Freeway’s powerful and unique features include...
MULTIPLE MASTER PAGES
Designing a Web site using master pages is one of the keys to the amazing level of productivity that can be achieved with Freeway. Master pages are used for repeating features such as layout, navigation bars, page backgrounds and graphic elements. Use as many different master pages as required.
LAYOUT TOOLS
 Including transformation, zoom, guide and ruler features, all with both graphical and numeric controls for accurate positioning. Content can be placed in overlapping boxes, text on graphic, text on text, graphic on graphic, even text on animated GIFs! Drag and drop directly into Freeway from most applications (for example iPhoto, iTunes, Extensis Portfolio, iView Media Pro, and so on).
LINK MAP
Provides a complete overview of the hyperlinks that connect each page in a site. Hyperlinks made within the site are automatically tracked and are impossible to break accidentally.
Although not reflected in the Link Map, Freeway also allows you to edit the hyperlinks and change backgrounds in Flash movies directly in the layout.
LINK STYLES
Freeway 5 has an improved user interface for setting link styles, and Freeway 5 Pro allows you to set link styles on CSS items as well as pages.
- Select a page or CSS item
- Change to the Appearance pane of the Inspector palette.
- In the Links section, choose link colors from the color popup menus and/or select the underline state you would like.
|
|
This is some text in English, 汉语, Русско, 한국어, and Ελληνικά
(Chinese, Russian, Korean, Greek) |
Unicode—Because It's Not Such A Small, Small World
Unicode text allows you to mix characters from many languages within a single line of text. Visitors to your site don’t need to have special fonts for each language, or to select the page language from a list—it just works. Each Unicode font can contain tens of thousands of characters or glyphs.
 Standards-Compliant
Designing with standards means that you can trust that a modern browser will always render your pages consistently. It also means that you can create designs that work well for visually disabled visitors using “speaking” browsers, or cell-phone/PDA users, or new platforms yet to be invented. Even create XHTML Strict without a trip to MIT for a Master’s degree
|
Internet Explorer Compatibility
Microsoft Internet Explorer is the most commonly used browser on Windows computers, but it has a number of limitations in its support for web standards. Freeway 5 provides three levels of Internet Explorer compatibility. Internet Explorer 7 has greatly improved support for web standards in comparison with Internet Explorer 6, which is used by a shrinking number of people.
New Interface
- Carefully designed to make it easier to focus on your design, while keeping everything you need close at hand
- The redesigned Inspector dynamically resizes itself to present just the tools you need for the current selection
- The Site panel makes it easy to create pages or folders, and to organize your site quickly. It even supports Finder like colour labelling to help you flag pages for action or to signify functionality.
- The configurable toolbar allows you to personalize Freeway to your own working style
- Contextual pop-up menus come to life with a Control-click (or right-click on a multi-button mouse) and present the most-used options for the current selection
- Scroll wheel support allows you to blaze through large documents
- Dynamic Site Panel allows site arrangement, drag & drop, object selection and more
- Page Preview using the same rendering engine as Apple Safari—check a page in a genuine browser view without publishing your entire site
Other Notable Freeway 5 Features
- Email adress obfuscation to help keep the spammers away
- Link styles - change the colour of links in any CSS item
- Save Archive - create an archive of your site for backup or transporation
- Improved margin and grids
- Built-in preview within Freeway (Safari/Webkit)
- Integrated .Mac upload
- Quick Look compatibility in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
- Spotlight compatibility in Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and beyond
Improved Graphics Handling
- Full EPS (Panther & later), Illustrator, Photoshop layered file import
- Graphic box effects, Text effects - shadow, glow, emboss, blur, scatter
- Vector effects (wobble and crack), Border types (dashing, dotted)
- Improved transparency (opacity) options
- Graphics and Graphics Extra FAST packs are built into Freeway 5:
- Sharpen, Blur, Watermark, ChromaKey, Duotone, Fade, FillMaster, PhotoFrame, PhotoMagic, Posterize, Scan Lines, Solarize, Sharpen, Saturate, Linear Blur, Impress, Hue Rotate, ChromaKey, Advanced Fade
Code Output
- Unicode for truly multilingual sites; mix languages on the same page, even on the same line. Unicode keyboards, Unicode filenames
- Encodings/import encodings/Auto/UTF8
- Generate standards-compliant XHTML (Strict and Transitional), HTML 3.2, HTML 4
- Output options on “By Page” basis
CSS
- CSS Layout - CSS layout items - control over CSS/table layout
- Child items, relative and absolute items, percentage positions and sizes
- CSS borders, padding and margins
- CSS styling with partial styles and tag styles
- Create and use external style sheets
- Full style management
|
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
- Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” (10.4.11 or later recommended)
or
- Mac OSX 10.5 “Leopard”
INPUT METHODS
- Fully Unicode compliant input, for multilingual publishing in a single document
- Localized interface matches your Mac’s language settings
TRANSPARENCY SUPPORT
- Use layered, transparent Photoshop and Illustrator files directly in your layout. (Pro only)
- Use 24-bit PNG files with 8-bit transparency.
- Create transparent or translucent graphics directly in Freeway 5
- Output PNG-24 (8-bit Alpha channel) images for true transparency in the browser
|
BUILT-IN INCREMENTAL UPLOAD
FONT HANDLING
- Compose graphic text headlines and art using any active font on your Mac
- PostScript, TrueType, OpenType
- Full OpenType alternate glyph selections (Pro only)
- Kerning, tracking, baseline shift
- Spell-checking, even within graphic text
GRAPHICS HANDLING
- Use graphics of nearly any format and resolution
- Built in resampling and compression
- Composite images automatically
- Slice images automatically
- Composite images with editable graphic text
|
CSS LAYOUT
- Pixel-positioned and relative layouts
- Percentage dimensions
- Float and fixed layout objects
CSS STYLE
- Full and partial CSS text styles
- Structural and semantic tags
- Percentage, em, pixel dimensions
OUTPUT METHODS
- UTF-8 (Unicode)
- Automatic Text Encoding
- Standards-compliant
- XHTML Strict
- XHTML Transitional
- HTML 4.01 Transitional
- HTML 4.01 Strict
- HTML 3.2
|
|
|
