Softpress Announces Ship Date and Special Pricing for Freeway 5

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February 14, 2008 (Oxford, UK)

Today, Softpress Systems Ltd. announced that both Freeway 5 Pro and
Freeway 5 Express will ship on March 27, 2008.

“Freeway 5 is a milestone in the world of web design,” said Richard
Logan, Softpress Managing Director. “Never before has it been this easy
to create high-quality, fully-featured professional websites without
coding knowledge.”

A public beta version is available from <http://softpress.com/
freeway5beta.php>.

Until final release and as an incentive to early adopters, special
pricing is available through the Softpress store. For example, upgrades
from Freeway 4 Pro to Freeway 5 Pro will be $69, upgrades from Freeway 4
Express to Freeway 5 Express will be $39 and owners of Freeway 4 Express
can upgrade to Freeway Pro 5 for $129. There will also be a bonus
discount on all copies of Intaglio - the powerful drawing program for
the Mac. http://www.softpress.com/store/index.php

Freeway 4 Pro and Freeway 4 Express are available from retailers
worldwide, and all purchasers of Freeway 4 after January 1, 2008 are
eligible to receive a free downloadable upgrade to the new version.
Proof of purchase may be required.

For full pricing information please visit:
http://www.softpress.com/f4prices

FREEWAY 5 NEW FEATURES

Alongside Freeway’s traditional features (Master Pages, Freeway Shop and
hundreds of other powerful time-saving features), Freeway 5 has a wide-
range of new functionality including:

CSS menus - create amazing, high-speed dropdown or fly-out navigation
schemes in minutes.

Make your own personalized Blogger templates.

A suite of Google Actions to allow users to add Google content effortlessly.

Scriptaculous Actions - a range of sensational dynamic effects: fade,
blind, pulsate and more.

Accessibility provisions, including reports and views to ensure your
target audience gets exactly what they need.

Many other new features and improvements, including sliced background
images, background effects, new graphic effects, nested HTML lists, Save
Archive, iPhoto import, color labeling, and more.

ABOUT FREEWAY

Freeway, famous for its ease-of-use and clean efficient standards-
compliant code generation, is the tool of choice for professionals and
home Mac users who prefer to focus on design issues, not on coding!

ABOUT SOFTPRESS

Softpress was founded in 1993 to address the emerging needs of
publishers and designers for new media authoring tools. Its head office
is in Oxford, England.

CONTACTS

Reviewers are encouraged to download and assess the Beta. For a
reviewers guide or to receive permission to use a version of this
software for covermounts, please contact:

Ian Schray
US Marketing Manager, Softpress
+1 (503) 616-3875
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Richard Logan
Managing Director
+44 (0) 1993 882588
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I’d like to be the first to say congratulations to Softpress for what can only be described as a very fair price for the early bird upgrade to Version 5.0. and all the more reason for everybody to support and promote them.

I’m off to dig out my credit card.

Cheers

Gary

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So should I move from v4 to v5 now?

Tony

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On 14 Feb. 2008, 6:51 pm, duotone wrote:

So should I move from v4 to v5 now?

if you have any new projects to start it is a good time because you will not have to go through the updating sites fun and games. you may have to live with any beta bugs if they affect you. otherwise there is no reason to hurry - other than you are getting it at a better price before final release and it will not do Softpress any harm - will help their cash flow probably (-:

I have because I have three new but fairly simple sites to produce and I’d rather start them from scratch with V5.

Gary

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if memory serves me correctly, a Softpress upgrade is a completely new install of the application rather than a serious modification of existing software. i think that’s what happened going from 3.5 to 4. yes? no?

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On 15 Feb 2008, at 03:35, deidremc wrote:

i think that’s what happened going from 3.5 to 4. yes? no?

Yes. Plus, if you open a site created in an older version, Freeway
will helpfully warn you and - unless you are intending to work on a
copy anyway - will save the original version intact the first time
you save in a newer version.

All of which means if you come unstuck in a new version, you can at
least step back to an earlier version because wise users keep copies
of their previously installed versions of Freeway, right?

(o:

Heather

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Just upgraded from 4 pro. Very fair prices.
Thanks Softpress :wink:

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I’d have a devil of a job to recall exactly what edits had been applied
since a previous date so I only see this as good in the immediate transition
and better than nothing if major wobbles force retreat at a later date.

I wouldn’t want to slow Freeway down any more that it already is but if
there were a document log that outlined events it could be handy.
date
page
item create / delete / edited / action applied.

It might also be useful to recall work done when I am so busy doing it that
I don’t account for it.

or it may be a stupid idea that isn’t worth the overhead.

all the best
Brian

Heather Kavanagh said recently:

On 15 Feb 2008, at 03:35, deidremc wrote:

i think that’s what happened going from 3.5 to 4. yes? no?

Yes. Plus, if you open a site created in an older version, Freeway
will helpfully warn you and - unless you are intending to work on a
copy anyway - will save the original version intact the first time
you save in a newer version.

All of which means if you come unstuck in a new version, you can at
least step back to an earlier version because wise users keep copies
of their previously installed versions of Freeway, right?

(o:

Heather

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Excellent policy from Softpress. I’ve ordered my upgrade.

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Ordered mine.

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Very fair pricing! I’ve ordered my upgrade and eagerly await the official release.

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