On 20 May 2010, 5:48 pm, sandraC wrote:
Hi There,
I have created a single page document in Freeway Pro which I want to use as a html mailout. I want to be able to post it onto my website but I can only do this is the file has .html one the end. The only two options for saving a Freeway file that I can see are saving it as .freeway and html.freeway. I have tried uploading both of these and it connects, but the message is just gobbldygook… If anyone could offer a way forward I’d appreciate it ; ]
On 20 May 2010, 5:59 pm, waltd wrote:
Freeway files are not HTML, and they don’t contain any HTML, either. But when Freeway publishes a site – even a site with one page in it – it generates an HTML file for each page, a CSS stylesheet, a folder called Resources containing all of the images, movies, etc. needed by your site, and various other elements needed to make Internet Explorer appear to be a standard Web browser.
All of these files together constitute your Web site (even one page is a site). They can be found wherever you told Freeway to publish them. If you look in the File / Document Setup dialog, on the Output tab, you’ll see where that is (look at the Site Folder segment of the dialog).
If you’re sending out the HTML part in an e-mail mailing, then you’ll need to host the images and other resources on a public server, and you’ll also need to use Tim Plumb’s Remote Resources Action to rewrite all of the references to those images so they point to a full, canonical URL, rather than Freeway’s preferred “relative” URLs. You can find that Action at http://freewayactions.com or maybe at http://actionsforge.com
Walter
On 20 May 2010, 6:20 pm, sandraC wrote:
Thanks Walter. I have been moving folders about and can’t now find anything. If I do a save as can I start again and create a site with all the sub folders you talk about in it. I have tried creating a new folder on the desktop and saving the document into that, but only the document goes in it - not the Resources folder you talk about…
On 20 May 2010, 6:26 pm, sandraC wrote:
the site folder says: unspecified…
On 20 May 2010, 6:31 pm, waltd wrote:
The Resources folder et. al. go into whatever folder you designate in
the File / Document Setup dialog. Press the Site Folder button in the
middle of the Output pane of that dialog, and you can navigate to
wherever you like and choose or create a folder.
The thing you need to get clear on is that a Freeway document is kind
of like a QuarkXPress document. By itself, it’s nothing a normal
person could read. But if you print it out (which is roughly what
Freeway does when it publishes) you will have finished pages spilling
out of your laser printer, and anyone can read those. So too with
Freeway, when you “print” (publish) it sends HTML text files,
optimized graphics, etc. to the “printer” (output folder) you specify
in that dialog.
Walter
On May 20, 2010, at 2:20 PM, sandraC wrote:
Thanks Walter. I have been moving folders about and can’t now find
anything. If I do a save as can I start again and create a site with
all the sub folders you talk about in it. I have tried creating a
new folder on the desktop and saving the document into that, but
only the document goes in it - not the Resources folder you talk
about…
On 20 May 2010, 6:32 pm, waltd wrote:
Click that button and tell it where to go. You would have to do this
before you previewed in a browser, or even within Freeway itself.
Walter
On May 20, 2010, at 2:25 PM, sandraC wrote:
the site folder says: unspecified…
On 20 May 2010, 8:22 pm, sandraC wrote:
Got it! many thanks…
now I need to get my head round Tim Plumb’s Remote Resources Action but I think that will wait until the morning!
thanks again ; ]
On 26 Mar 2012, 10:17 pm, Andrew wrote:
I’ve just begun working with Freeway and I find that my files automatically convert to html when I save them in the site pane. I cannot return to edit.
thanks
On 26 Mar 2012, 10:29 pm, Frank H wrote:
In Freeway you would want to open the mysite.freeway file
Frank H.
On Mar 26, 2012, at 3:17 PM, Andrew wrote:
I’ve just begun working with Freeway and I find that my files automatically convert to html when I save them in the site pane. I cannot return to edit.
thanks
On 26 Mar 2012, 11:08 pm, DeltaDave wrote:
The quick way back to your document is to use File>Open Recent
This will show you the last few .freeway files you have been working on.
David
Thank you. I believe that my problem was also that I saved my files without a freeway extension. They seemed to end up as html only and I could not edit. I’ll keep going.