The following templates will be available (for free) from our website: Ambient, Ambient Light, Assistant, Esperanto, Fleet, Health, Macro, Portfolio, Retro’d, SecondSight, Serenity, Smile, Snapper, TheBand, and Tranquil.
Ambient and Ambient Light are based on Xway sample documents, the others were converted from Freeway templates via Freeway import, and tidied up using Xway-specific features such flexbox layout and multiple master pages.
Pricing will be similar to Freeway prices:
Xway 1.0: $39
Freeway to Xway upgrade: $19
Discount price for Xway users who don’t have a Freeway serial number: $29
Xway can import most of the content, but it doesn’t support table layouts, so it imports table-layout content into inflow CSS boxes. You can use CSS layout features (flexbox etc.) to create flexible CSS layouts, or you can copy the content into new documents that are based on templates - which already have flexible CSS layouts and have been adapted to make use of Xway features (flexbox, multiple master pages etc.).
We used Freeway import as a first step in creating these templates.
The Xway User Guide (for 1.0) has an appendix with advice on how to import Freeway documents. The first paragraph says: “To open a Freeway document choose Open from the File menu and select a file that has a .freeway extension. Xway should open any document that was created by Freeway Pro or Freeway Express from version 5 onwards. This should preserve most of the content (text, links, resources, markup, meta tags, master pages etc.) and styles (fonts, colors etc.) of the Freeway document. It should also preserve much of the layout in documents that use CSS layout.”
Fantastic news! Look forward very much to working with it. The import freeway document in itself sounds exactly what I’ve been waiting as I have a number of legacy sites that were too big too begin again in xway on their own. So this holds some promise. Many thanks for a bit of good news.
That is great Jeremy! I do not think we have table layouts in any of the websites we have and it seems that importing from FWY 7 should be smooth. Thank you so much, and I will buy it as soon as you make it available.
I don’t know the answer to that yet, but it will probably be similar to or a bit less than the dollar price. It seems that we have been selling Freeway in US dollars, but some of our products (e.g. Chroma) have alternative prices in pounds and euros.
