New in Freeway 6: HTML5 and CSS3 headline the extensive list of features. Versions of Freeway from 4.4 onwards also create HTML and CSS that correct many rendering problems with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows. For example, valid code is required by law on the majority of federal and state institutions' web sites in Germany. Unlike most other WYSIWYG web design applications, Freeway produces syntactically valid HTML code and Cascading Style Sheets, making it usable in situations where valid HTML code is obligatory. Many useful Actions are bundled with Freeway, the latest set from Softpress being a suite of Actions that lets the user create a shopping cart through the popular Mals e-commerce system.
Several Actions can be downloaded for free on several websites, but there are also commercial 3rd Party Actions, like the "Auction Seller Suite" from, which allows the creation of Ebay-friendly HTML within the Freeway design interface. Advanced procedures (like connecting to a MySQL database using a scripting language like PHP) are done through plug-ins called "Actions".
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. Freeway Express has fewer features and is aimed more at the amateur web designer.įreeway 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. There are two flavours of Freeway: Pro and Express, both currently at version 6. 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.