- Freeway (software)
Infobox Software
name = Freeway
caption = Designing a website with Freeway Pro 4.0.
developer =Softpress Systems
latest_release_version = 5.2
latest_release_date =August 2008
operating_system =Mac OS X
genre =Internet publishing
license = Proprietary
website = [http://www.softpress.com/ www.softpress.com]Freeway (originally
Uniqorn ) is aWYSIWYG web design application forMac OS X (older versions also run underMac OS 9 ), developed by the English companySoftpress Systems. There are two flavours of Freeway: Pro and Express, both currently at version 5. Freeway Express has fewer features and is aimed more at the amateur web designer.Freeway is based on a pre-
Mac OS X print publishing application calledUniqorn , also developed by Softpress, but discontinued when Apple stopped supportingQuickDraw GX inMac OS 8 .The philosophy behind Freeway is that an average user is able to design websites without having to deal with any code, using an interface very similar to that of
Desktop publishing applications likeQuarkXPress orAdobe InDesign . Advanced procedures (like connecting to aMySQL database using a scripting language likePHP ) are done through plug-ins called "Actions". Several Actions can be downloaded for free on several websites, but there are also commercial 3rd Party Actions, like the "Action Seller Suite", which allows the creation ofEbay -friendly HTML within the Freeway design interface. Many useful Actions are bundled with Freeway, the latest set from Softpress being a suite of Actions that lets the user create a shopping cart through the popularMals e-commerce system.Unlike most other WYSIWYG web design applications, Freeway produces syntactically valid
HTML code , making it usable in situations where valid HTML code is obligatory. For example, valid code is required by law on the majority of federal and state institutions' web sites in Germany. Freeway 4.4 also creates HTML and CSS that correct many rendering problems withInternet Explorer 6 on Windows.External links
* [http://www.softpress.com Softpress Systems Homepage]
* [http://www.softpress.com/products Freeway Product page]
* [http://www.softpress.com/support Freeway Support]
* [http://www.softpress.com/kb/ Freeway Knowledgebase]See also
*
List of HTML editors
*Comparison of WYSIWYG HTML editors imilar website publishers
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