Hello all!
It makes me smile to see the nice comments on this thread.
It has certainly been awhile since I posted on this forum. Like Walter said, I have moved on from using Freeway and now primarily hand-code most of my websites. I found that from a business perspective, I wanted to pursue the more “premium” end of the website design market, and switching over meant that I could tackle more technologies, work with more CMS’s, and so forth. And, honestly, I really enjoy coding and get a greater satisfaction from my work. Fewer “dirty” hacks and workarounds. 
tonzodehoo, it’s been years since I last looked at using mals e-commerce, so my memory of the problem is very fuzzy. I can tell you that nothing has changed in Backdraft that would make it a better fit now than then, but perhaps Mals has updated it’s methods for injecting the necessary UI into the page? You are correct in that Backdraft is nothing more than some prebuilt layouts for Freeway – so if it works in a vanilla Freeway document, it should work in Backdraft.
Regarding Backdraft as a project – I would say that it has likely reached EOL. It was really useful under Freeway 6, as it introduced functionality that wasn’t natively in the program. It was still very popular after Freeway 7 was released, but now as a framework – a fast way to get an inflow responsive website running. Since Softpress hit the reset button, I’ve seen steadily dropping rates of downloads. Now, I scarcely get any visits at getbackdraft.com, let alone any downloads.
It was an awesome project. I learned a lot, from both a technical and business perspective. And I got to meet and work with a lot of great folks.
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