Freeway 5 Express (Mac)

If you are a Mac user and want to produce good looking websites without buying an anorak and learning lots of horrid code, Freeway is the answer to a prayer! iWeb and Rapidweaver are great little apps but you're limited to using someone else's template - so your site looks like everyone else's. Not so with Freeway! You can start with a blank page and knock up a nice page in much the same as using any page layout tool like Swift Publisher or Publisher (on the PC). Freeway takes care of generating the code and it does it so well that you even get a Gold Anorak Award from W3C to add to your pages!There are a few niggles though. Some features such as rollovers can be frustrating to implement where multi layer graphics are used. Also I have found it does crash occasionally, so regular saves are a good idea. Also, if you do actually know a little code, getting it into your page can be fiddly - much more so than in something like Dreamweaver. Having said all that, Freeway Express is amazingly cheap and good value for money.I thoroughly recommend Freeway Express. Anyone with a creative bent and used to DTP apps will be up and running in no time.

I've never designed and built a website before; I don't know code (and I don't intend to learn it); I own an Apple Mac. These three factors severely limited my choice of software, but Freeway 5 Express has come riding to my rescue.It's very easy to learn, especially if you begin by working your way through the tutorials in the excellent (hard copy) manual supplied with the disc. If you get into difficulties the Help features are great: the comprehensive online KnowledgeBase sorts most things out and, for those tricky little problems, there's a well used forum - you can be sure you're not the first to run into a particular problem and other users are only too willing to share their experience.The guys at tech support have been great, and got me out of a couple of holes, such as: providing workarounds when I couldn't import downloaded actions the way it says in the KnowledgeBase, and helping me upload the completed website to my server space when I was tearing my hair out!All in all, a very simple to use programme - it has certainly taken much of the black art out of web design and encouraged me to build more sites in the future.