BDKENNEDY1  I've been using FW Pro for 6 months and there is plenty, PLENTY of room for improvement.

While it's the best WYSIWYG web building software for the Mac (haven't tried Goldfish yet) the interface is clunky and unintuitive. Many user interface elements don't make sense such as how menu items are grouped, populating lists in a drop down box, including PHP files and I've spent hours upon hours trying to figure things out such as adding a form or editing the header.

Placing objects that must be aligned perfectly is difficult between the Master page and individual pages and sometimes FW doesn't update the changes between the two, causing me to just give up on what the problem was instead or wasting anymore time and start the whole site over again.

My biggest problem is how it handles your graphic files. Under certain situations when you have a graphic on your Master page, FW will import the same graphic for as many individual pages you have. That means when you build your site it will include the same file several times into the build, causing your FW file to balloon in size and then it takes 10 times longer to build.

The GUI is clunky and looks and feels like it was ported over from the OS 9 days even though it wasn't. It suffers from redraw problems and overall the program should probably be rewritten from scratch.

I got my site finished and doing what I want it do do eventually, but I still keep a lookout for something better. This program has been around long enough where it should be trim, tight and intuitive.  
(Version 5.3.1)

JAN13  This exiting software for development of visually stunning web pages is definitely for our design group a grizzly-discovery ! Till today we been using GoLive and of course Dreamweaver but this Freeway Pro 5 is about something else ....

Easy to use and being taken away be creative spirit definitely shows ...

The only thing which we do consider as big problem is PayPal incorporation .... Otherwise this software rocks !!!

Paypal incorporation trough plug-in or even as build-in as feature will put this app., head on with some high ranking softwares which are on market today.  
(Version 5.3)

M-RICK  Just can't import HTML correctly ! While simple softwares like Coda or Flux can open and render the HTML pages corectly ! How come if I have to redraw all the sites every time if I want to switch to Freeway ???

So I will not use, I don't have hundred hours to be loosen to redraw everything just to make them compatible with a web designing software that even can't open correctly an HTML file ...  
(Version 5.2.1)

PRLAB  I've used Freeway for at least four years. Always updated, always responsive. But why is there always a full install for each upgrade? The one thing that would make this (for me) a great tool would be automatic blogging setup, so I don't have to use Rapid Weaver. I've suggested it to them, and they're looking at it.  
(Version 5.2.1)

ABNORMAL  I have to agree with FOCUSSTUDIO. I have tried DreamWeaver and I have written my own code. Nothing comes close to Freeway when it comes to publishing professional, original sites painlessly. I use RapidWeaver for my blog, but I can't imagine using it for a website - especially one that I expect to get paid for designing.   
(Version 5.2)

FOCUSSTUDIO  I have used this application on a number of extensive projects since v.3.5. It is an easy professional tool that keeps getting better, offers fast responses and solutions to evolving web standards, and produces dependable results across all browsers.

Comparing Freeway Pro to RapidWeaver or iWeb is like asking why you should travel around the world when "you can see it all in Las Vegas" !

.. and no, I do not work for these guys, but let's get real !  
(Version 5.2)

CROBERTS  After several months of using this program, I decided to ditch in favor of RapidWeaver 4 and CSSEdit.

While these programs are probably not as powerful or professional as FW Pro, the program simply doesn't work for me, particularly its interface. I really had to struggle through the poorly-written tutorials for FW, and it was a long time before I felt confident trying much of anything. I also really hated the awful resolution in editing mode.

With RapidWeaver, it's much easier to get started (like in a day), and the far-superior tutorials for their Theme SDK make it much easier to develop custom style sheets - at least for me.

I have some but not a huge amount of DTP experience, but found that the scattered interface of FW didn't really help me much when it came to finding a logical workflow for getting things done.

Overall, I think the DTP paradigm for web design may have seen better days, and I'm actually enjoying web page design rather than dreading it now that I've switched to RapidWeaver.

Perhaps some day when I'm more a power designer I may come back to Freeway, but even then it's overall layout paradigm seems a thing of the past.  
(Version 5.1.3)

DANA SUTTON  There is room in the Mac world for a wysiwyg Web page creation program that is cheaper than Dreamweaver, has an easier learning curve, and is a LOT less buggy. Such a program would stand in about the same relation to Dreamweaver as Pages does to MS Word. But l you can get the entire iWorks suite for approx. a hundred bucks, which places it in reach of "the rest of us." But look at the high price of Freeway Pro. Surely this is a case of developer's self-foot-shoot. A lot of potential customers probably conclude "ah heck, I might as well put another hundred bucks on top of this and go for Dreamweaver." How clear are the developers about what market they're aiming their product at? Greedy, greedy.  
(Version 5.0.2)

ESPIRIDION  A few questions for Ian (SOFTPRESS SYSTEMS).

Is the upgrade from Freeway 4 Pro to Freeway 5 Pro $99? Am I reading this correctly? And this is the same upgrade price for 3.5 users?

http://www.softpress.com/store/pricelist.php

I just want to understand this upgrade policy. Maybe it will be better for me to use 4 Pro which I recently purchased, and wait for an eventual version 6 or 7 release. And then decide whether to stay with Freeway or look elsewhere.

If I'm understanding this correctly, then for me it was a mistake to purchase Freeway 4 Pro, and maybe it was a bigger mistake to recommend it so much.

Of course, at the time of my purchase there was not even a hint that version 5 was coming out.

So, am I understanding this upgrade correctly? Is this the way "Softpress does takes care of its users"?

Thanks in advance for your reply.  
(Version 5.0p2)

DOKODEMO  I didn't buy this during the promo because I have been an owner of Freeway Pro since version 3. However I do want to mention that I was disappointed that when I upgraded to an intel imac and transferred all my apps that Freeway Pro 3 wouldn't run at all on an intel, so it was a forced upgrade. In fact Freeway Pro was the only one of my pro-apps that wouldn't run or didn't have a patch for intel machines. After months of irritation at having a totally useless piece of expensive software on my HD I finally coughed up the money to upgrade to 4. I think it would have been more palatable if the upgrade was more like $50.00 than $99.00.  
(Version 5.0p1)