On 29 Aug 2014, at 10:40, Andries Kuipers wrote:
But what wonders me more and more, SP says on their site to promote
FW:
“Create responsive websites. Visually.
Websites are visual, tactile, and tangible experiences. We believe
creating them should be exactly the same.”
And… “Freeway7 - Create responsive websites on your Mac, without
writing any code.”
All should be done easy and visually to let designers design their
sites and not get hunged up in weird code…
But, most of the tips to solve problems here is to add, write,
enhance, change… CODE!
Previously, building fully responsive sites using Freeway required some
significant awareness of code and often used code tricks to get there.
In Freeway 7, much of that is now part of the visual layout process.
However, many people still use Freeway 6, as 7 is pretty new.
Additionally, questions are often about integrating stuff such as
externally-made galleries, Facebook or Google+ buttons, and so on. If
someone has code they want to add to a Freeway visual layout that pretty
much has to involve discussions of where the code goes.
Freeway is the best free-form visual web layout application, bar none.
Wordpress is astoundingly powerful, but it definitely is not a visual
layout tool. Rapidweaver and others of that ilk tread a kind of middle
ground between design and template-driven production. It’s a classic
case of ‘horses for courses’.
To achieve design goals in a particular media it’s useful to know
something about how that media works. Print designers won’t get far if
they don’t know anything about CMYK inks or the basics of paper – but
they don’t need to BE printers to create powerful, compelling, effective
design work. And they still can create workable designs, usually, even
if they are actually clueless about production.
Freeway makes this truism apply to web design as well: you’ll achieve
more if you know something about the technical aspects of how web
pages work. But you don’t need to be a programmer to create powerful,
compelling, effective web site designs.
As for whether it’s getting too complicated – well, what’s possible in
web production is constantly going up. I remember the good old/bad old
days of PageMill 1.0 and Freeway 1.0, and before. Boy, things were
simpler then! Well, in a sense, if you ignore the crude workarounds we
were constantly dreaming up.
Sometimes I look at what the best of today’s software tools (Freeway,
LiveCode, Photoshop, After Effects, etc.) allow, and I marvel. I don’t
have a flying car but I truly am living in the future. We can’t stop
learning new things without falling behind, that’s a fact of life. The
trick is to keep enjoying it.
k
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