[Pro] code

  1. how do i get code from freeway pro 6 to give to someone else?

  2. Can I get the code from freeway pro 6 and import it into let’s say dreamweaver and get the same looking pages as freeway?

I guess I’m trying to see if I can design the look I want with freeway pro then hand the code off to a coder to finish some of the things freeway can’t do on the backend of site—or at least things I don’t know how to do in freeway.


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Sure. But realize that it’s a one-way trip. You won’t get much of a result if you import the modified HTML back into Freeway. That’s because inside Freeway, there isn’t any HTML being used to generate the layout or to save the site design. Instead, there is an object-oriented model of the entire site, in a format more near to what you would find inside a Desktop Publishing document.

When you preview in a browser, publish, or upload (the last two both invoke the same Publish command) you are generating an HTML equivalent of that layout in your Site Folder. So you could bundle up all the HTML and graphics and CSS from your Site Folder, send that out to your traditional workflow, and do anything you like with it. It’s just HTML, and any text editor can handle that.

But as I have explained, this is a one-way trip, so subsequent changes to the HTML (even directly in Freeway’s Site Folder) will not affect what you see in the Freeway application, and if you publish again from Freeway, any changes you have made within the Site Folder will be overwritten. (You will be warned, first.)

Walter

On Jan 15, 2014, at 2:10 PM, pete wrote:

  1. how do i get code from freeway pro 6 to give to someone else?

  2. Can I get the code from freeway pro 6 and import it into let’s say dreamweaver and get the same looking pages as freeway?

I guess I’m trying to see if I can design the look I want with freeway pro then hand the code off to a coder to finish some of the things freeway can’t do on the backend of site—or at least things I don’t know how to do in freeway.


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Thanks for the fast reply.

I’m really not trying to finish the project but rather design it and let the coders do the rest. So the finished project would be in whatever program they want.

My job is to design it, show it to the coders to make sure they can do it, and then show the client. Once ok’d by the client the coders would take it and run with it.

Where would I go to get the the code from freeway to give to my coding personnel?

And, would the look of the website be the same on the coders program as it would in freeway?
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On Jan 15, 2014, at 2:29 PM, pete wrote:

Thanks for the fast reply.

I’m really not trying to finish the project but rather design it and let the coders do the rest. So the finished project would be in whatever program they want.

My job is to design it, show it to the coders to make sure they can do it, and then show the client. Once ok’d by the client the coders would take it and run with it.

Where would I go to get the the code from freeway to give to my coding personnel?

In Freeway, in the Page Setup dialog, click the Site Folder button. Wherever you target that folder to live, is where your exported HTML etc. would be.

And, would the look of the website be the same on the coders program as it would in freeway?

Freeway writes HTML and CSS. Period. If they opened it in a text editor, it would look like text. (I work this way most of the time.) When they preview it into a browser, it would look the way that browser rendered that code. Once changes are made to the code, then the result would diverge from how it initially looked in Freeway, but there’s nothing magical about how Freeway writes the code in the first place that your coders would have to duplicate or know any secrets to duplicate.

Now the more you know about how Freeway writes layout code, the easier a time your coders will have working with your layout. Particularly, if you create your layout using the in-flow (box inside a box) technique, which will allow text to grow and shrink without breaking your layout or causing items to overflow one another, then the resulting code will be simpler and easier to edit. If you just draw boxes where you want things to go, and let Freeway take the path of least resistance, then the result will be a more complex layout, probably not in any semantic order, and more confusion on the part of your coders.

Walter

thanks
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I would think it would hinder what a “coder” would have to do - as code
isn’t any one way thing, there are many dozens of ways to do the same
things. Freeway Pro writes code the way it is programmed to, and coders can
be more flexible to choose how they code something in context. Providing
them with Freeway code will make them either follow narrowly Freeway’s
strict interpretation of the design, or they will have to waste time
stripping back the code to a point they can work with.

A better way - a way that I tend to work nowadays - is to design first with
Adobe Illustrator. Photoshop and inDesign would probably work just as well,
but I’m more comfortable with AI. You want to give guidelines on how the
website should appear, not partially construct it then expect someone else
to finish it. Sometimes my mockups are literally the back of a napkin.
Whatever it takes to help someone else visualize.


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I appreciate your comments gentlemen. This gives me an idea of how to proceed with other projects.

I asked the questions because I have a client who needs a live feed for commodities and futures etc…and I wanted to make it faster for the coders to implement it while I had already done most of the (coding) work in freeway. I guess there’s no way around paying contractors unless I learn coding and I’m too old for that.

thanks again,
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I asked the questions because I have a client who needs a live feed for commodities and futures etc…and I wanted to make it faster for the coders to implement it

Remember that it is a relatively straightforward task to use Markup in FW to add features like this.

David


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