Freeway
Designing a website with Freeway Pro 4.0.
Maintainer:	Softpress Systems
Latest release:	4.1.2 / March 2006
OS:	Mac OS X
Genre:	Internet publishing
License:	Commercial
Website:	www.softpress.com

Freeway (originally Uniqorn) is a WYSIWYG web design application for Mac OS X (older versions also run under Mac OS 9), developed by the English company Softpress Systems. There are two flavours of Freeway; Pro and Express, both currently at version 4. Freeway Express has less features and is aimed more at the amateur web designer. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1203x1303, 316 KB) Summary Freeway (software) icon Licensing This is an icon of copyrighted computer software. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1239x666, 775 KB) Summary A screenshot of Freeway (software) 4. ... Software maintenance is one of the activities in software engineering, and is the process of enhancing and optimizing deployed software (software release), as well as remedying defects. ... Softpress Systems is a software publisher with its headquarters in Oxford, England. ... A software release is to create a new version of the system or program and release it to the user community. ... To suggest a relevant news story for the main page, refer to the criteria then add your suggestion at the candidates page. ... An operating system is a special computer program that manages the relationship between application software, the wide variety of hardware that makes up a computer system, and the user of the system. ... Mac OS X is a proprietary operating system developed and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. ... A software genre is a classification of software by its common function, type or topic. ... A software license is a type of proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software — sometimes called an End User License Agreement (EULA) — that specifies the perimeters of the permission granted by the owner to the user. ... Commercial may mean: as a noun: a form of advertising, as in a television commercial as an adjective: referring to commerce or for-profit activities or trade (compare with non-profit organization) a breed of cattle, Commercial This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that... The front page of the English Wikipedia Website. ... WYSIWYG (pronounced //), an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, is used in computing to describe a system in which content during editing appears very similar to the final product. ... Mac OS X is a proprietary operating system developed and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. ... Mac OS 9 was the last version of what has since become known as the classic Macintosh Operating System (Mac OS), introduced by Apple Computer on October 23rd, 1999. ... Softpress Systems is a software publisher with its headquarters in Oxford, England. ...

Freeway is based on a pre-Mac OS X print publishing application called Uniqorn, also developed by Softpress, but discontinued when Apple stopped supporting Quickdraw GX in Mac OS 8. Mac OS X is a proprietary operating system developed and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. ... Apple Computer, Inc. ... QuickDraw GX was a replacement for the QuickDraw graphics engine and Printing Manager, initially released in about January 1995. ... Mac OS 8 is a series of versions of the Mac OS that, although they introduced few remarkable new user features, supported a transition through major changes in the Apple Macintosh hardware platform. ...

The philosophy behind Freeway is that an average user is able to design websites without having to deal with any code, using an interface very similar to that of Desktop publishing applications like QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign. Advanced procedures (like connecting to a MySQL database using a scripting language like PHP) is done through plug-ins called "actions". Several "actions" can be downloaded for free on several websites, but there are also commercial "actions", like the "Graphics FASTpack", which delivers advanced image editing functionalities for Freeway. Desktop publishing (also known as DTP) combines a personal computer, page layout software and a printer to create publications on a small economic scale. ... QuarkXPress is a desktop publishing (page layout) application for Mac OS X and Windows, produced by Quark, Inc. ... Adobe InDesign CS splash screen Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing (DTP) application produced by Adobe Systems. ... David Axmark (left) and Michael Monty Widenius, Founders of MySQL AB, at a conference MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user, SQL Database Management System (DBMS) with an estimated six million installations. ... PHP is a scripted programming language that can be used to create websites. ...

Unlike most other WYSIWYG web design applications Freeway, produces syntactically valid HTML code, making it useable in situations where valid HTML code is obligatory. For example, valid code is required by law on the majority of federal and state institutions' web sites in Germany. A piece of HTML code with syntax highlighting In computing, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language designed for the creation of web pages with hypertext and other information to be displayed in a web browser. ...

External links

• Softpress Systems Homepage
• Freeway Product page
• Freeway Support
• Freeway Knowledgebase