This linking situation is very odd to me compared to anything else I have used previously. Now I have a folder with a nice long SEO title/name and inside I have a bunch of images also properly named for SEO purposes. These images are to 1) be background images 2) available to pop out as a new window and only as an image via clicking on some selected text.
No problem having option 2 to work. But I can not find a means of having those images on the server be the background image since I can find no means of browsing for it. It makes no sense to me that Freeway is going to use images from my desktop and convert them into the program for the desktop images and not allow me to have all the images on this site be in a folder of my choice.
How I have to get all my folders, files and linking done comparing to GL to Freeway, Freeway certainly slows down your workflow considerably, causing one to do far more work than before. Freeway took ease of use away from the folders, files and linking compared to things like GL and DW. Publishing was a real breeze before using Freeway.
I want to have to avoid a new, long upload each time I publish.
No, just stop thinking of the elements of the site as being anything other than artifacts of Freeway’s publishing process. You don’t have photos, you have Freeway-generated Resources. The photos on your Mac could be 300ppi TIFF files, suitable for press printing. They could also be vector images from Illustrator. They could be animated GIFs you downloaded from some Web site somewhere. It doesn’t matter particularly where they are on your disk, either. When you publish, Freeway will generate precisely the site you have specified in your layout and in the Site panel. And the images, regardless of format, will be converted to precisely the crop and enlargement you set for them in the design process. The originals stay where they are; new, optimized copies are resampled from those originals, and are uploaded to your server.
If you want a particular folder structure, simply create that structure in the Site pane in Freeway. It will cheerfully create whatever you ask of it, no matter how deeply nested. And the originals can be on half a dozen other disks or network volumes. When you publish, Freeway will find all the originals, update any files that might have been changed since your last publish, keep everything linked perfectly. You’re trying too hard here. This is not GoLive. As the little kid said to Neo – there is no spoon!
I don’t think you understand what I am attempting to do here and I am beginning to think I am not going to be able to build the website I need to build with Freeway.
I am sending another post to describe my situation/position on web building and what I have to see happen in order to continue. This program does not seem to be very SEO friendly and I had heard that before purchasing too.