Hi everone can some one please help? I have a Macbook Pro retina Mid 2015 OS Mojave with Freeway Pro Ver 7.1.4 And would like to move my webb site to my new Macbook Pro M3 Nov 2023 Sequoia 15.6.1 and on to Xway. I have copied all the folders and files with anything to do with Freeway Pro onto a memory stick and running it off a memory stick. I all so made some photo pages with Showcase. I found the file Photo webb 2026.freeway and I loaded it, everything seems to be all over the place. I have replaced the missing photos and missing fonts. Can you please help and till me where I’m going wrong, I’ll be most grateful
Hi Edi Big G,
If you’re referring to differences in layout, this is probably because Xway is designed to create flexible layouts that will adapt to different devices (computers, tablets, phones), and no longer supports some of the older layout techniques that Freeway uses (e.g. table-based layout). There is more detailed information about this in Appendix 3 of the Xway User Guide: “Importing a Freeway website.”
You can view the Xway User Guide by choosing Xway User Guide from Xway’s Help menu.
Generally, the best way of dealing with this is to create a new flexible layout, using master pages, and copy imported Freeway content into this new layout
The key to flexible layout is to use inflow (relative-layout) boxes, which are the default type of box in Xway. Xway also supports more advanced types of CSS layout, such as Flexbox, that were not supported by Freeway.
There are step-by-step written and video tutorials for Xway, which show how to create a flexible website from scratch. It’s also possible to start with a flexible template and adapt that. In either case, the best place to start is by working through the introductory Xway tutorial.
To view tutorials and other resources, choose Xway Resources from Xway’s Help menu.
Hi Jeremy thank you so much for a speedy reply I will take on bought your suggestions. I am working my way through the tutorials, but I am stuck on the first one where he stays paste the text into the box I cannot find snippet 1 to 11. I am so sorry to ask a stupid question, but I’m just trying to get my head round a new version. I do appreciate your help.
Hi Edi,
I cannot find snippet 1 to 11
Ah, that’s not a stupid question at all!
I take it that you’re viewing the video tutorial rather than working through the written tutorial on which it is based?
I’ve just noticed that this is missing a short introductory section, which we should add to our web page. This says:
"In this tutorial, we show how you can use Xway to create a flexible website that will look good on different devices: mobile phones, tablets, or computers.
"We’re going to create a document that has a dark appearance, and use this as the basis for a second document that has a light appearance.
“Text and graphics for the tutorial can be found in the Text and Media folders that accompany the PDF version of this tutorial.”
The video tutorials are not completely standalone - they also require you to download the written tutorials on which they are based, for the text and graphics that they refer to.
One other point that might be helpful is that if you are using Xway 1.1 or later, you don’t need to copy and paste text - you can simply import it by choosing Text from the Insert menu. The video tutorial was made using Xway 1.0. Again, this is something we should probably add to our web page.
Thanks Jeremy a great Service and response