Freeway for Windows why not?

More and more clients ask me to manage their own website, but if windows have become a problem! Softpress make Freeway optimized windows !!! Pleasee! Why do you think it is not optimized for Windows could earn much more?


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Dear Simone, personaly, I would never give FW files to clients. Usually clients do not get into FW as deep as one actually should which makes even more problems as to charge now and than a small fee to changes.

Why do the profession “webdesigner” exist in the first place? :wink:

One reason is to bind clients in longtherm, but otherwise to prevent “design / layout” disasters.

You can also offer a cms.
Hanna


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On 3 Mar 2015, 12:19 pm, sonjanna wrote:

One reason is to bind clients in longtherm, but otherwise to prevent “design / layout” disasters.

With YOUR name written all over it. Great publicity :S

You can also offer a cms

Like Pulse CMS or Perch.


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  • Richard, I suppose you did misunderstood my comment.
    Not with my name written over it of course. Maybe I should explain my basic ideas of my office more properly, sorry.

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To get back to the original poster’s question, Freeway is written with MacApp (the framework) and cannot be ported to Windows in any fashion. It uses Mac-only features that would have to be entirely made over to work on the Windows platform.

It’s quite unlikely that a small team such as Softpress could support this, even though as you say the payoff is possibly quite large. The costs of such a migration would not be borne only by the engineering team – the support team would have to bulk up dramatically to deal with the many issues that come from having a ridiculously wide-ranging platform like Windows.

In Mac OS, you may have to worry about supporting back two or three versions of Mac OS X, but on Windows, people are still rocking XP, and editing their .ini files and registry. It’s a very scary thing to imagine trying to support an app across that wide a playing field.

What would be great is a Softpress-sanctioned CMS, tightly integrated with the application on your Mac, and able to work in a round-trip workflow between what you design and what your client content-manages. That’s not strictly possible, given the way that Freeway works internally, but I have made a small push in that direction with my Inlay CMS http://inlay.io (full disclosure – it’s a paid service, not free). Using Inlay, you use Freeway to publish template pages to the Web server, and your client uses a very familiar-looking interface to edit those pages.

Walter


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