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Freeway Newsletter - September 2008
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Freeway Reviewed!
Freeway 5 has been a big hit lately in the Mac media. Both MacObserver (5/5) and Macworld (4.5/5) have posted stellar reviews of Freeway to their websites, adding their voices to Mac|Life (4/5) and others. Check out our reviews page (http://softpress.com/reviews.php) for a complete
list!
Featured Freeway Site - Mollison’s:
An upscale inn in Kyneton, Australia uses Freeway to create their beautiful website. To get the most out of a visually simple yet comprehensive design, they make striking use of the Mootools Suite to create sliding boxes and slideshows.
For more information on the Mootools Suite, please visit Weaver’s Freeway Actions site http://www.coastalrugs.com/Actions/mootoolssuite.html.
Freeway Tips and Tricks - Rounding the Play Button:
Have you wanted to spruce up the button in your site’s embedded QuickTime movies? To ensure validation and compatibility across as many browsers as possible, the code generated by the QT Reference Movie Action had to be toned down a bit, leaving the button rectangular and less than beautiful.
If you know that the majority of your users are viewing your site in Safari or Firefox, you can add a bit of code to your page that will round the corners, making the button look great. Here’s how:
- After applying the QT Reference Movie Action (included with Freeway Pro and Freeway Express), select “HTML Markup…” from the Page menu.
- Select “Before ” from the pulldown menu at the bottom of the dialog (note the / before head - this is important.)
- Paste the following code in the dialog box:
.playButton {
opacity: .8;
filter: alpha(opacity=80);
-moz-border-radius: 1em;
-webkit-border-radius: 1em;
zoom: 100%;
}
.playBackground {
opacity: 0.0;
filter: alpha(opacity=0);
}
That’s it! Click OK and preview in your browser(s) to see the change.
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FreewayTalk:
Our online discussion boards are alive and kicking! Join the
discussion about all things Freeway (and Mac) at http://www.freewaytalk.net
Review Freeway!
Are you a member of the media? Do you write for a technology blog or contribute to a podcast? We’d love to have you review Freeway 5. Please contact Ian Schray at email@hidden
Freeway Templates:
We’ve made a number of templates available, both within Freeway and as downloads from our templates page http://www.softpress.com/support/templates.php.
We’d love to expand these offerings, eventually creating a
user-to-user Freeway template exchange. If you have a great site that you’d like to share, please contact us and we’ll get your template posted on our site (giving you full credit, of course!).
Freeway Moments:
Want to learn how to get the most out of Freeway? Try the Freeway Moments video podcast. You can subscribe via iTunes: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=264836028
That’s it for this time. For more information about Freeway, check out our website at http://www.softpress.com
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