James,
A site where Freeway “Pro” can’t do all it alone. A site where you need to incorporate a CMS to insert the content on all the pages. This is pretty much how a commercial web designer (myself) has to work getting stuck in to front end web development. I rarely get a website project where there is no CMS.
Freeway “Pro” is quick to create the page and site framework I but the guts of the page content is taken from the CMS. In this case Perch CMS. Perch uses (hand coded) HTML templates the get inserted into the Freeway “Pro” page which you code by hand and style with your own CSS style sheets. When I say content is inserted to the Freeway “Pro” page it’s not just text it can be structural elements too, thus reducing even more of what is controlled by Freeway “Pro”.
Once you get that ah ha! moment with writing HTMS CSS you quickly realise hand coded CSS can be very powerful and much quicker than the Freeway “Pro” extended attributes boxes (adding classed to so many Freeway items).
James I very much realise you hate code. I was there once (still am with javascript). I would not say I’m a coding ninja btw. I think the main thing I’ve learnt is how to search for a solution to a problem (Google) and keep pushing your comfort zone. Now I look back somewhat from the coding side the water is much warmer than you think.
If you’ve only got a simple single site then I think you’re right finding an all in solution. Freeway users wanting to make a living in web design I feel they should push the boat out and learn more.
It was very noticeable in the forum the recent move to responsive sites exposed a typical Freeway “Pro” Designer’s achilles heel (I hate code). Those that did not embrace looking under the hood of Freeway’s output are now falling even further behind those that did.
You may notice I keep highlighting “Pro”. I think many failed to see and understand the three very important letters “P-r-o” in Freeway Pro. Most of the decent competitor tools assume some code competence. I don’t see Freeway Pro as being much different in this regard.
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David Owen
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On 9 Aug 2016, at 00:50, JDW email@hidden wrote:
Let me see if I understand this correctly. One who is short on time should code websites by hand?
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