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Freeway Pro

A Good WYSIWYG Editor for Macintosh

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Freeway Pro

Freeway Pro

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About Freeway Pro

Freeway Pro extends the Freeway Express web page editor. For just a little more money, you get more features like CSS support, and support for different DTDs. This is a good WYSIWYG editor for Macintosh.

There are two versions of the Freeway editor: Express and Pro

Target Market(s): Small business owners or Newcomers to Design

Review last updated: October 27, 2011.

Freeway Pro Latest Review

Freeway Pro Version: 5.5
Score: 105
Percent: 31%
This score was generated using the methodology listed in the article: Finding the Perfect Web Editor.

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Freeway Pro Technical Details

Operating System(s): Macintosh

Freeway Pro Features

  • WYSIWYG editor
  • Accessibility validator
  • Page preview
  • Wireless scripts, functions, or links
  • Wireless scripts, functions, or links
  • Save pages as HTML with DTD
  • Write XHTML documents
  • FTP or Site manager
  • FTPs or Secure FTP
  • Search and replace
  • Edit images
  • Connects to graphics software
  • Can edit CSS
  • Additional CSS assistance
  • Free scripts
  • Customizable or extendable
  • Free trial
  • Upgrade discounts or freeware
  • No limits on free or trial version
  • No subscription fee required
  • There is a tool to hide your email from spammers
  • Link manager
  • HTML email creator

What’s Missing from Freeway Pro

  • Text editor
  • HTML validator
  • CSS validator
  • XML validator
  • Alternate browser or OS preview
  • Mobile device preview
  • Create mobile web applications
  • Package mobile apps for delivery on app stores
  • Write HTML 5 documents
  • Color coding
  • Tag completion
  • Extended search and replace (across multiple documents)
  • Edit multiple files/tabbed file editing
  • Multimedia functions
  • Assistance with adding videos to websites
  • Ability to add video and audio using HTML5 with fallback options
  • Save Adobe AIR files
  • Save files as PDF
  • Link checker
  • Special character tools
  • Can edit JavaScript
  • Helps with Ajax JSON, or jQuery pages
  • CSS 3 properties and selectors
  • CSS3 media queries tools built-in
  • Can edit PHP, ASP, or JSP
  • Dynamic page rendering and editing with server-side programming languages (PHP, JSP, ASP, CFM, etc.)
  • Database connectivity
  • Edit XML and/or RSS
  • Google sitemaps
  • Spell checking
  • Save snippets of code
  • Writes to blogs
  • Free templates
  • Form wizard
  • Photo gallery builder
  • Ecommerce tools
  • SEO assistance built-in
  • Captcha support or other methods of protecting forms
  • Version control
  • Support for teams editing the site (beyond version control)

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Full price: $229.00 Upgrade price: $138.00

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User Reviews

 1 out of 5
Web Easy Pro, Member THEFACTS

TERRIBLE Run from this product. It has no support for it. It is cheap because people buy it and get frustrated and place the disc on the shelf and plan on dealing with it later. The WORST !!!!!!!!!!!…More

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