Grouping Items in Freeway
Grouping items into a single "group item" is a commonly used feature of Freeway, but there are some aspects which customers may find confusing - especially if they don't understand the concepts of parent/child relationships between items. There are a few different reasons for grouping items on t ...
- Using the Relative Page Layout Action (Freeway 5.5 Pro only)
The Relative Page Layout Action (RPL, we pronounce it ripple) is a groundbreaking new Freeway 5.5 Pro feature. It might not seem like much to begin with, but it will completely revolutionize the way you use Freeway. In this article we’ll be taking a look at what the RPL Action does, how it ...
- Designing with Grids
Ever wondered what it is about some sites that makes them look clean, coherent and professional? One of the main reasons is so simple it almost seems unlikely, a grid. Simply making sure elements in your site line up with each other can transform your site from amateur to professional. Grids and ...
- Creating an "Accordion" in Freeway
An "Accordion" is a great way to have a lot of information on a page without making the page too long. This is because an accordion will display a section of text only when a heading is clicked on. Clicking on another heading can be made to hide the previous section when the new section displays ...
- Using a Marquee in Freeway
There are two meanings to the word "marquee" - one is the display of a moving line of HTML text, the other describes how to select multiple items with a "selection marquee". This latter term is simply the method of clicking and dragging the mouse over or around a group of items with the Select ...
- Centered pages jump to the left when a vertical scrollbar appears
If your website is centered in the browser window, and some of your pages are much shorter than others, you may have noticed pages jumping from left to right by about 10 or so pixels when navigating between pages. This is caused by the browser's scroll bars appearing on longer pages, and disappe ...
- Changing an item on a Master page doesn't take effect on the site pages
Freeway's Master pages are great for ensuring you have consistency for common items throughout your site, and they help to speed up productivity. However, we occasionally get queries from Freeway users who want to know why changes to the Master page don't take effect on some or all of their site ...
- Using a Favicon on Your Site
Favicons are very popular these days. A favicon is a tiny custom graphic displayed in the URL bar of web browser which can help brand a site. See the screenshot below. These are very easy to use on your web site by downloading Tim Plumb's Favicon Action from Freeway Actions http://www.freewayac ...
- Overflowed HTML Items
People new to web design are often confused by the term "overflow" - yet it is a core part of understanding how HTML works when designing a web site. If you receive an error message when publishing a Freeway file (by either publishing or going to Preview or Preview in Browser) which says "OVERFL ...
- Parent and Child Items - The Basics
There may be times when you need to use items embedded inside other items - for which we use the terms "parent" and "child" (or "children"), where the parent is the container item and the child is the item used inside the parent. This is sometimes called "nesting". The most common reason for usi ...
- CSS Layout in Freeway (Pro only)
Note, if you want to create layouts that hold together when the text is increased in size then take a look at our Relative Page Layout KnowledgeBase article. Freeway has supported full CSS layout since Freeway 4. You can draw absolute positioned layer items, fixed position layer items and relati ...
- Centering the Page in the Browser
To center your pages in Freeway select the Master page or page you want centered and select Center from the Align option in the Inspector palette. Remeber, if you have a background image on the page then this will also need centering too. To do this go to the Appearance Settings panel of the Ins ...
- Making a Page Footer
If you are using Freeway Express then the easiest way to do this is to place an HTML item at the bottom of your page that will act as the footer. Because there are no layers in Express the footer item will always stay at the bottom of the page regardless of text size increasing in the browser. T ...
- Making an Item Stretch the Width of the Page
There are two ways to do this, all of which require the page to have their Align option set to None. The first method is to draw a non-layer HTML item the width of your page. Give it a color or border so you can see it and with it still selected check the Width Can Grow checkbox in the Isnpector ...
