Mastering Master Pages

Freeway’s Master pages work much the same way as in Quark XPress. You base new or existing pages on a Master and every item on the Master can be edited from the child page. Hm? Oh, not to worry: when you edit an item on the child, that item is no longer considered a master item, but belonging to the child. In that sense your Master layout is always preserved…

Colour me happy!

Mastering colour in print is difficult enough. However, as many print designers branching out to web design will discover, using colour on screen introduces a whole new set of problems. The old print knowledge is suddenly not applicable and you have to re-learn. We will try to deal with some of the issues here…

The Div-A-Tron Action

Action guru Paul Dunning has recently published a standards-centric Action called the Div-a-Tron. What this Action does is allow the user to nest layered items—‘divs’—set margins, paddings, even borders to HTML items and more…

Extending Freeway At The Touch Of a Button

Say we build a pretty page in Freeway and we’d like it to comply with W3C standards guidelines. So we send the page through the validator, which finds some errors that need to be fixed. Can we fix them? In some cases, yes; in some cases, no. At least not without extending the code…