Third Freeway 5 Public Beta Released

–for immediate release–

Oxford, UK

February 28, 2008

Today, Softpress Systems released the third public beta of Freeway 5,
the award-winning HTML generator. With a traditional page layout
approach, Freeway makes it easy to create dynamic websites without the
need to write code. The free beta can be downloaded from http://
softpress.com/freeway5beta.php

“We’re in the final stages of the Freeway 5 development now,” Softpress
Managing Director Richard Logan said, “As we get closer to launch, we
need the help of our users to ensure Freeway 5 is the best it can
possibly be.”

With the help of user feedback, this version of the beta contains many
fixes and improvements, and is proving very stable and usable.

Freeway 5 Pro and Freeway 5 Express will be launched as downloads on
March 27, 2008. Until then, special discount pricing is available
directly from the Softpress Store: http://softpress.com/store. Upgrades
from Freeway 4 Pro to Freeway 5 Pro are $69, upgrades from Freeway 4
Express to Freeway 5 Express are just $39. Owners of Freeway 4 Express
can upgrade to Freeway 5 Pro for $129. More pricing details can be
found at http://softpress.com/store/pricelist.php

Any copy of Freeway 4 purchased anywhere after January 1st, 2008 and
before the launch, will also be entitled to a free upgrade to Freeway 5.
Proof of purchase will be required.

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.
Personalized Blogger templates.
A suite of Google Actions to allow users to add Google content effortlessly.
Script.aculo.us 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 any version of this
software for covermounts, please contact:


Richard Logan
Managing Director
SoftPress Systems Ltd
Telephone: +44 (0) 1993 882588
Fax: +44 (0) 1993 883970
UK Cell: +44 (0)7961 613766

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I have a question please - I love Freeway and have already paid for the upgrade before it arrives - BUT I really was hoping in V5 that something could be done to improve the ( what is in my opinion ) the over complicated arrangement of the styles/colors/web colors dialog windows > which then becomes the edit styles window or the select a color window or the color picker.

surely it must be possible to rearrange these so that you have one tabbed window from which you can just select the items you need to set and then close that one window - over the course of designing a site there must be literally hundreds of unnecessary clicks involved to do something so important but which ought to be relatively easy

I will happily draw up a plan to illustrate my idea if it is a reasonable step forward and anybody out there agrees with me ?

otherwise I will just have to put up and shut up :slight_smile:

Gary

PS I see that at last you can select the target for a hyperlink in that dialog box without having to resort to extended > add new > etc, etc. a great time saver

thankyou for that Softpress

PSS. I resorted to the US versions of color and dialog instead of my UK versions of colour and dialogue 'cos the spell checker was getting to me !


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I am certain you can change this in a preference somewhere. Yes –
it’s in the System Preferences : International. Click on the language
tab, and if you don’t see British English in there, click on Edit
List and check it on. Then you can sort it above English and get your
favourite spellings.

Walter

On Feb 28, 2008, at 5:30 PM, diarbyrag wrote:

PSS. I resorted to the US versions of color and dialog instead of
my UK versions of colour and dialogue 'cos the spell checker was
getting to me !


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On 28 Feb. 2008, 10:14 pm, waltd wrote:

I am certain you can change this in a preference somewhere. Yes –
it’s in the System Preferences : International.

Hi Walter,

no I have that set already - in fact British English is the only one selected in the list

When I type into the mailing list through Firefox ( where UK English is my first choice ) the spelling highlights the English words underlined in red.

not a problem - the web runs on US English anyway so I have to get used to using both or my CSS classes will be a waste of time :slight_smile:

Cheers

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Ah. What about in Safari? Firefox may be going their own way, in a
nod to greater cross-platformness or something. It doesn’t surprise
me that they don’t use the system spelling, since they also eschew
the Keychain.

Walter

On Feb 29, 2008, at 3:15 AM, diarbyrag wrote:

On 28 Feb. 2008, 10:14 pm, waltd wrote:

I am certain you can change this in a preference somewhere. Yes –
it’s in the System Preferences : International.

Hi Walter,

no I have that set already - in fact British English is the only
one selected in the list

When I type into the mailing list through Firefox ( where UK
English is my first choice ) the spelling highlights the English
words underlined in red.

not a problem - the web runs on US English anyway so I have to get
used to using both or my CSS classes will be a waste of time :slight_smile:

Cheers

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On 29 Feb 2008, at 12:57, Walter Lee Davis wrote:

What about in Safari?

My Safari speaks my English.

Not entirely sure that’s good English, but there you go.

I think Walter’s right in the Firefox dictionary is an app level one,
not using the OS settings at all.

Heather


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Thanks H & W,

for some reason I’ve never been a big Safari fan - I prefer Firefox then Camino then Safari

I did try Opera but it seems a bit too much of a Swiss army knife browser to me :slight_smile:

I will try Safari although for the amount of inconvenience for a few US/UK word versions it is no big deal.

Just as an aside I had a debate about this US v UK English and was told that US English for the most part is closer to the original English spoken in England at the time when the Pilgrim fathers cleared off into a brave new world. It was only due to French & European influence that colour, theatre, dialogue, etc., became the norm.

Now if that is correct or not I do not know - unless someone out there knows better ? - but it does seem a plausible explanation

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On 29 Feb 2008, at 14:13, diarbyrag wrote:

for some reason I’ve never been a big Safari fan - I prefer Firefox
then Camino then Safari

As a matter of interest, don’t you find Firefox incredibly slow? I
like it apart from that, but …

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Sometime around 29/2/08 (at 09:13 -0500) diarbyrag said:

Just as an aside I had a debate about this US v UK English and was
told that US English for the most part is closer to the original
English spoken in England at the time when the Pilgrim fathers
cleared off into a brave new world. It was only due to French &
European influence that colour, theatre, dialogue, etc., became the
norm.

Arguable, given that spelling was not fully rationalised and fixed
until well after that point. It is really a case of both having
aspects of centuries-old spelling choices, but eventually one side of
the Atlantic went one way and the other went, well, the other!

With regards to spelling variations, French has clearly had some
influence, and more than Spanish has in US English. But you also have
to look at Latin and Greek roots, not just newfangled language
influences.

Panton est magis universa quam is videor.

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On Feb 29, 2008, at 6:13 AM, diarbyrag wrote:

was told that US English for the most part is closer to the original
English spoken in England at the time when the Pilgrim fathers
cleared off into a brave new world.

I’ve read that the Southern drawl is the accent that was common in
England when the South was populated.


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Hi diarbyrag

There is a UK English version of Firefox, if you are interested. Go
to the Firefox website at Firefox - Protect your life online with privacy-first products — Mozilla
and then click on Other Systems and Languages. Scroll down the list
to English (British) and download the Mac version from there.

HTH

Graham Smith
Bury St Edmunds, UK

On 29 Feb 2008, at 08:15, diarbyrag wrote:

On 28 Feb. 2008, 10:14 pm, waltd wrote:

I am certain you can change this in a preference somewhere. Yes –
it’s in the System Preferences : International.

Hi Walter,

no I have that set already - in fact British English is the only
one selected in the list

When I type into the mailing list through Firefox ( where UK
English is my first choice ) the spelling highlights the English
words underlined in red.

not a problem - the web runs on US English anyway so I have to get
used to using both or my CSS classes will be a waste of time :slight_smile:

Cheers

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On 1 Mar. 2008, 2:47 am, Graham Smith wrote:

There is a UK English version of Firefox, if you are interested. Go
to the Firefox website at Firefox - Protect your life online with privacy-first products — Mozilla
and then click on Other Systems and Languages.
Graham Smith

Thanks Graham I’ll have a look

and yes it is a little slow but I like the addons, particularly the web developer extension - very useful for studying the make up of pages - trying to get my CSS knowledge up to speed :slight_smile:

Thanks

Gary

PS- nobody has actually made any reference to my original question - or do I take it that silence speaks volumes ?


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On 1 Mar. 2008, 2:47 am, Graham Smith wrote:
There is a UK English version of Firefox, if you are interested. Go
to the Firefox website at Firefox - Protect your life online with privacy-first products — Mozilla
and then click on Other Systems and Languages.
Graham Smith

Thanks Graham, that works just fine

dialogue and colour and theatre and fibre - no more red underlining - better for me at least

Cheers

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Sometime around 29/2/08 (at 18:27 -0800) James F. Marshall said:

I’ve read that the Southern drawl is the accent that was common in
England when the South was populated.

I think that theory has some basis in fact. But of course the
Southern accent has morphed itself a bit in the intervening time, too.

(And the interesting follow-up is which part of England? Even now,
with TV homogenising our spoken language, it is fair to say that
dialects still vary more across the UK than they do across the US!
Ooh-arr the noo, boyo. :slight_smile:

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Keep posting feedback to the beta page. It’s never too late to ask,
just sometimes it’s too late for the (announced) version to make its
shipping date. I have been asking for some sanity in this area too.
Add your voice to the chorus.

Walter

On Feb 28, 2008, at 5:30 PM, diarbyrag wrote:

I have a question please - I love Freeway and have already paid for
the upgrade before it arrives - BUT I really was hoping in V5 that
something could be done to improve the ( what is in my opinion )
the over complicated arrangement of the styles/colors/web colors
dialog windows > which then becomes the edit styles window or the
select a color window or the color picker.


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On 1 Mar. 2008, 12:19 pm, waltd wrote:

Keep posting feedback to the beta page. It’s never too late to ask,
just sometimes it’s too late for the (announced) version to make its
shipping date. I have been asking for some sanity in this area too.
Add your voice to the chorus.

Thanks Walter,

copied pasted and sent via the feedback page

lets see what happens

Have a good weekend

Gary


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On 1 Mar. 2008, 12:21 pm, thatkeith wrote:

TV homogenising our spoken language, it is fair to say that

dialects still vary more across the UK than they do across the US!
Ooh-arr the noo, boyo. :slight_smile:

k

Thanks to the influx of OZ tv we now have thousands of people who have to raise the pitch of their voice at the end of a statement to try and make it into a question ?

really hate that one

Gary


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On 1 Mar 2008, at 16:49, diarbyrag wrote:

really hate that one

As well as those who don’t form their “O” sounds properly any more.
We’re in danger of reverting to “nay” instead of “no”.

“Where do you come from?”

“Stake-on-Trent.”

sigh

;o)

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“Where do you come from?”

“Stake-on-Trent.”

Very True Heather

should all be taught f’t speak propper in school !

i.e. I nows a blowk frum Stowk un Trent duck !

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If it was the Q about styles - it was rather a broad sweep.

I do want Freeway to make it easier to use and apply and edit styles without
getting in a muddle.

In Freeway 4 I nearly always use the Style inspector so that I can see and
edit and add styles and check that they are as I intend.
I often see things there that I didn’t intend and behaviours that I don’t
comprehend.

And the whole issue of styles within a hierarchy of values of which I am
rather vaguely aware is a great boon to those who understand where and how
to use them but I tend to generate confusion!

all the best
Brian

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PS- nobody has actually made any reference to my original question - or do I
take it that silence speaks volumes ?


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