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Freeway Reference: Getting Started

are deemed “illegal”. Alphanumeric long file names allow only

letters, numbers, hyphens, and underscores in the file name

(apart from the dot before the file extension): some web hosts

require file names to be limited to these characters.

When Freeway generates the file names using the titles of items

or pages within Freeway as a basis, any illegal characters will be

removed.

The way file names are specified may be important when

transferring your files to a web server. All Macintosh, Windows

95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista and UNIX computers handle long file

names. If you find that you need to transfer your site files via DOS on a PC, or are experiencing problems which you suspect are a result

of long filenames being truncated, you can use this option to tell Freeway to use DOS 8.3 file names instead. Alternatively, if Freeway

reports that it is unable to upload a file because its file name is not allowed, you can use the Alphanumeric option to avoid this

problem.

This can be done at any time. If you change this option after a site has been created, you must republish the site to ensure that changes

to referenced files are correctly updated.

Deciding on a page size

Each web page seen by a visitor to a web site exists as an individual HTML file; and every page you create in Freeway is exported as an

individual HTML file when you publish your site. One of the most important things to do when deciding on a page size is to plan the

overall structure of your site in advance—although you can create pages as you need them, it’s best to have a clear idea of the general

sections that your site will contain.

Web pages are not limited in dimension; and if you create pages that are wider or longer than the visible area inside the visitor’s browser

window, the browser window will display scroll bars to allow the visitor to view parts of the page that are off the screen. However, it is

usually considered poor design to have pages that force the user to scroll horizontally to see the rest of the page.

Your pages may be viewed in a variety of environments, including smartphones, tablets, small desktop monitors, laptop screens and

very large desktop monitors such as an iMac 27-inch. A screen’s resolution refers to its dimensions in pixels; therefore the older standard

screen size of 640 x 480 (which are now quite rare) gave you a web page size of 640 pixels wide by 480 high. At the time of writing this,

the most common display resolution for browsing the internet is 1024 pixels wide, so although larger and wider displays are becoming

more common, it’s recommended to offer a web site which has a page width of between 950 pixels to 1050. Any narrower and the page

may look small on a modern screen; any wider and it may force the visitor to scroll horizontally to view all the page content.

It is also worth noting that most web users will not have a problem with scrolling vertically (and in fact most visitors now expect to)—

so the height of the page is not so important. Trying to constrain every page of your web site to a fixed height is very limiting as there

are always going to be some pages which will naturally have more text and graphic content than other pages. It is a common trait of

people coming into ‘design-for-web’ from the ‘design-for-print’ world to try to work to a fixed height for all pages of their site—and

most soon learn to build pages with a height that’s governed by their content.

If you wish to create pages for commercial sites with a non-scrolling policy, you need to judge carefully the size you define for your

Freeway pages, so that they will fit comfortably inside a browser window. The size you choose needs to allow for the menu bars, button

bars, status bar, and so on belonging to the browser. This can result in a very small area indeed if you are designing for smaller, older

computer displays.

Remember, however, that Microsoft Windows browsers tend to open full screen, and many users never change that default. If you are

creating a site that will be flexible if the browser window is resized, you need to be aware of how it may appear on a full-screen high

resolution PC display. Mac users surfing on high-resolution screens tend to prefer to size the window to approximately the aspect ratio

of a portrait sheet of paper, rather than expand windows to fill their field of vision.

Freeway lets you specify a page size for the document as a whole in the Document Setup dialog box, but you can set different sizes for

individual pages using the Page General panel of the Inspector palette.

Layout options

FW Pro only

Freeway Express only supports table-based layout (although some lower level inflow layout can be used). Freeway Pro, however, gives

you a variety of layout options as it allows you to create table-based, CSS-positioned or inflow layouts. This is covered in greater detail in

Appendix 1 at the end of this manual.

Table layout (CSS Layout button off)

Table-positioned items are drawn with a blue outline and/or blue corner mounts in Freeway. These items form a layout that is

reproduced in HTML when you publish your site. To recreate your layout in HTML, Freeway creates an invisible layout table, consisting

of rows and columns that combine to create table cells. Because the contents of Freeway boxes are output into their corresponding cell

or cells in this two-dimensional grid, it is not possible to have the contents of two different cells overlapping one another in the output

except by using layer items.

CSS layout (CSS Layout button on)

FW Pro only

CSS layouts are created using items which are positioned on the page using CSS (and those items are often called “layer” items).

Layer items are drawn on the page when the CSS Layout button on Freeway’s tool bar is switched on, and layer items display with

a green outline and/or green corner mounts on the Freeway page. CSS items can also be part of a flow (inflow items), in which case

their position is dependent on the position of previous items within the flow, or they may have a fixed position on the page (layers).

Note 1: If DOS ﬁle names are selected, the Resources folder is renamed

“resource” instead of “Resources”.

Note 2: If a resource is shared by several pages in different folders, and the

common or separate Resource folder options are selected, the resource will be

copied into a single folder and not duplicated in each of the separate folders.

Note 3: Full details of Freeway’s preference settings, Document Setup

dialog and shortcuts can be found in the Appendix 2 and Appendix 3

sections, starting on page 231.

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