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Design Web sites quickly and precisely, without needing to write or edit code with Freeway 4 Pro.

Design.

Use the familiar techniques of desktop publishing to create the sites you envision, without any need for hand-coding.
Use original art of nearly any size or format, with full support for layers and transparency. Add multimedia content like QuickTime and Flash to your page, simply and directly.
Use any active font to create graphic headlines and text elements, directly in your design.

Build.

See your design while you work. Make changes as fast as you (or your client) can think of them. Since you don’t have to write any HTML, you don’t have to worry about changing it, either!
Use Master Pages to create consistent elements across your site, and update the entire site in one step!
Check your pages in the internal preview, or any browser on your Mac, with one click.

Publish.

Publish your site in standards-compliant XHTML, with CSS styling and layout. Or, output the same design as a table-based layout to support older browsers. Full Unicode support for multi-lingual text. No hand-coding required!
Use the smart, incremental FTP upload or .Mac upload to publish your creation to the Web. Never worry about missing or out-of-date elements in your site.

New Features:

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 4 raises the stakes even higher.

Real CSS Control
While Freeway Pro 3 could be used to create CSS (table-less) page layouts using absolute positioning, Freeway 4 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.

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.

Graphic Box and Text Effects
Create exciting edge effects, shadows, and glows--even rough edges--on graphic text and images. You won’t need to leave Freeway, and you won’t need to modify your original artwork or create multiple versions.

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 3 introduced a fully transparent graphic compositing engine, but Freeway 4 takes that idea 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 4 Pro supports transparent images from Photoshop, Illustrator and Freehand, Fireworks, and many other applications.

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.

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 new Site panel makes it easy to create pages or folders, and to organize your site quickly
The new 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-and-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

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.

Other Notable Freeway 4 Features:

Hierarchical (nested) layout
Built-in preview within Freeway (Safari/Webkit)
Integrated .Mac upload
Navigation Pack supplied separately as free open-source software
Spotlight compatibility in Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger)

Improved Graphics Handling

Full EPS (Panther and 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 4: 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

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Freeway 4 Pro thrills designers around the world, with the right combination of print-quality typography, precision page layout and superb image control. Use the desktop publishing techniques you're familiar with, to create the sites you envision without hand-coding. Just like a professional page-layout program, you draw content areas, fill them, and move them around. No code, no hassle! Smart, incremental FTP or. Mac uploads your creation to the Web -- No more out-of-date elements in your site

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