The first thing to realize about Freeway vs. iWeb is that it’s a
designer’s tool – not a content manager’s tool. You can start with a
completely blank page, and build up the most complex design you can
imagine in Freeway. At no point are you stuck with the look and feel
(however tasteful) that Apple have provided. I know that from my
perspective, coming from years and years of professional design work
in QuarkXPress and later InDesign, Freeway felt precisely correct.
iWeb was a disappointment, frankly.
But if your objective is to fill in the template blanks, and that’s
all you’ve dreamed of in an application for Web design and
maintenance, then I’m not sure if I would recommend Freeway. I am
quite probably the biggest Freeway bigot in the world, but I do say
that. Freeway just isn’t aimed at that target, so it’s not surprising
that it just plain misses in most senses of the word.
However, if you’re willing to invest in a different way of thinking
about the problem, and a different way to solve it, then Freeway is
the only application of its kind, and the only one that has precisely
matched the DTP idiom to the online world.
Walter
On Jun 11, 2011, at 4:49 PM, msadesign wrote:
Not a very good way to introduce myself, I know…but with the coming
demise of iWeb I’m looking for alternatives and Freeway has been on
my radar for a long time.
And for many reasons. I outgrew iWeb a few years ago and do need to
move on, but one of the main things I love about iWeb is the
simplicity of moving text and pictures around. It’s just dead simple
and the results are great, so the question here is: does Freeway
offer the same functionality?
Broad question, I know, but when putting together something like this:
http://www.msadesign.com/msadesign/Blog/Entries/2011/5/20_Vines!.html
iWeb is just a dream of drag, drop, type. It’s not the biggest issue
I have with making the switch, but it’s part of it.
I downloaded the trial of FW Pro and ready to jump in.
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