Freeway Express 3.5 (Mac)

Rating:
Summary: Can't beat it for anywhere near the price
Review: after using frontpage (on windoze), dreamweaver, and trying golive I thought I'd give this a try. Within a few minutes I had a very nice, original site I'm actually proud of. It has a few tricky workarounds for more complex operations, but the ease of use overall is so easily worth the $99 bucks. Try it out (free demo at their site).

Rating:
Summary: Easy to use!
Review: I downloaded the free trial for this program and found it so easy to use I purchased the full program! New to the world of web design, I was looking for a package that was easy to learn the basics - with more advanced options (for when I became more confident).

I have just completed designing my very first website - and am thrilled with the results. I can't believe that I did it myself! Freeway Express is so easy to design web pages - and the help menu is ultra concise for the many times I got stuck.

If you're looking for a great basic easy-to-use web design program which provides professional results - Freeway Express is the package for you! You can download a free trial at www.softpress.com

Rating:
Summary: It's okay
Review: I previously used Pagemill 3.0 and never could figure out GoLive. That one was too hard for me. I think the negative reviews here are puzzling. These people must not have read the manual, which you have to print out yourself, because it explains how to do things. You can visit the site I built at www.mindspring.com/~rmjournal/index.html Not fancy, but it functions.

Rating:
Summary: Skip it.
Review: Looking for a replacement for old standby Claris Home Page, I found Freeway Express 3.5. This was true "you get what you pay for." It was extremely unintuitive and hard to figure out. I switched to Adobe GoLive, which costs a fortune by comparison, but was far, far easier to understand. Unfortunately, this program is not even worth if for free.

Rating:
Summary: A very bad program.
Review: This is a very bad program for creating web pages. The result of my time with it has been frustration and a pretty pathetic web site. There are many problems with this software:

1. It is not user-friendly or intuitive. It assumes a great deal of knowledge and it requires a great deal of reading the manual. I can sit down with iMovie and in 30 minutes figure out how to edit a movie. I've spent 50-60 hours with this program and I still can't figure it all out (and I think that is partly due to problem #2...

2. Its buggy. It crashes at least once every session (erasing all recent changes!). Sometimes, for no reason, you can't get it to display a whole picture (you spend hours fiddling wth setting that make no sense to try to fix it!).

3. The user interface is not based on Apple specs. Its like learning a new operating system because nothing works like it should - right click and it zooms in. Screw up and scroll to far to one side or the other and the "canvas" is woppergee for the rest of your session. And finally,

4. Its just a bad program. Poorly thought out. Poorly designed. It just stinks. There must be something better out there. Even if this is the lowest cost "option", I would not consider it an option.