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Freeway Reference: Getting Started

As you work, you need to preview your site regularly. When you do this, any new pages or any elements that have been changed are

republished. If you delete a page from the document, the HTML file and associated graphics will be removed as well.

After publishing your site locally, you can use the Upload command to transfer it to a web server so it can be viewed online.

Workﬂow

There is a sequence of steps to designing a web site with Freeway:

1. Planning the site

2. Designing the layout

3. Creating and assembling content

4. Creating a new Freeway document

5. Defining grids, master pages, and navigation

6. Adding and laying out pages

7. Previewing the site and making corrections

8. Publishing and uploading the site

9. Maintaining the site

1 Planning the site

It’s usually beneficial to spend some time planning the site before you start, even if it’s just a few minutes to gather your thoughts—this

will help to avoid false starts.

If you are designing for clients, then it’s essential you understand their requirements and expectations before you start and then plan how to

fulfil these. For example, you may find that they want to include advanced features such as multimedia, animation, database integration, or

online shopping at a later stage, and your design may need to take these factors into account.

You may also want to clarify up front with the client how far your responsibility extends—are you just going to hand over a disk

containing the HTML and graphics which make up the site or are you expected to upload it to their web space? Do they expect you to

provide web space for them? Are you expected to arrange their domain name? What about revisions and routine maintenance in the

future?

2 Designing the layout

Just as with design for print, you’ll probably want to take some time to rough out some ideas on paper before you sit down at the

computer. Even experienced designers find sitting at a computer staring at a blank page is the last place to find inspiration!

When working for clients, you may be liaising closely with them on the design brief. The site may need to fit in with an existing identity,

so that typefaces, colors, and even design elements may be prescribed for you—or you may be expected to come up with an identity

yourself. Either way, you’ll want to get client approval for the design before you go too far in creating the site. Freeway is great for pulling a

few ideas together quickly and producing two or three mock sites for clients to look at in a very short space of time.

Don’t worry too much if the client wants some small, last minute changes as long as these only affect elements created within Freeway.

It’s mainly design elements that need to be painstakingly created in other packages that cause trouble if the client wants to change them

later. Be especially sure to clear typeface and color choices with the client if you’re going to be doing any animation, 3D work, or image

manipulation to form part of the site content.

The end product of the design stage should be confirmation of the basic layout that’s going to be used, as well as an understanding

between you and the client over typeface, color, and how much (and what) technology is going to be used.

3 Creating and assembling content

With the design stage complete, you’re ready to begin creating and assembling the content for the site. This includes the basic textual copy for

the pages and any graphic or multimedia elements that can’t be easily created within Freeway—for example, animated GIFs, or Flash, video,

or sound content, PDFs for download, photographic images, and so on.

It’s often a good idea to assemble all the resources in one place before you

import them into Freeway, purely for administrative reasons. When the project

is complete, archive these original resources along with the Freeway document

and the finished HTML site folder. When creating art for the web, it’s best

to work at 72 ppi (pixels per inch) for bitmap images. As a result, you’ll find

you’re spending less time watching the clock in Photoshop and more time

creating.

You don’t need to save your artwork as GIF or JPEG before you use it in

Freeway—actually, you often have more control and get better results if

you don’t. Also, repeated JPEG compression of an image will introduce

cumulative artifacts, which damage the image every time you save.

There’s no need to create bitmap graphics of text or simple shapes in an

image editing program because Freeway allows you to create these with much

more control and greater flexibility. As you’re planning the actual content,

try to look for things that can be created in Freeway itself, and do so—when

last minute changes are called for, you’ll be glad you did.

A typical web site

folder. This one is

created automatically by

Freeway when choosing

the Blank template

or any other speciﬁed

template as a basis

for your site. Pro users

creating a new site using

the Custom settings,

you may want to create

a similar folder structure

by hand.

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