Freeway 5 Tutorials
Freeway 5 Tutorials
A complete archive of Freeway tutorials and screencast updates available to read and review. Included in them are descriptions of the screencasts and thorough explanations of topics covered towards creating your Freeway website.
Constant Contact
This screencast will show you how to take the generated HTML form code from ConstantContact.com, completely customize and stylize it, plus walk away with understanding what you've just completed. By the end of this screencast you will have a simplified version that fits seamlessly into the design of your website all using Freeway.
WebYep Episode Three
With the foundation laid out in episodes one and two of the WebYep series, we're ready to finish up the home page in episode three. In this screencast we'll continue working on a real project, for a real organization that in the end will be hosted on a real domain. This episode opens the gateway of WebYep further as you'll learn how to create custom stylesheets as well as finishing up the concept design to have a working home page.
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Accordion Menus Using MooTools
This free screencast will teach you how to create a navigation system that is setup like an accordion for your website. This is easy to setup and is a great way to create dynamic looking navigation systems all using one action together with Freeway. Using MooTools to build an accordion style navigation system will allow you to add yet another dazzling effect to your website that is cross-browser compatible and interactive for your users.
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WebYep Episode Two
Continuing on in the wildly popular WebYep series, episode two now takes center stage at the popular ScreenCast Store. In this screencast we'll start the actual site building process from a blank Freeway document into a work in progress site complete with an included Freeway document, an image to work along with of the final concept design, and much more. This episode also walks through several tricks on measuring items correctly in Photoshop and how to transfer those graphics and ideas into Freeway to make sure our real project for a real organization turns out to match what our client expects.
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WebYep Episode One
WebYep is a compact Content Management System that focuses on building simple editable websites quickly and easily. It doesn't require hours of training nor is it full of modules and plug-ins you simply won't use with other paid systems. This CMS is perfect for creating a website that can have a custom design to then be handed off to a client who can then update content at their leisure. This will both involve the client, in a positive way, into tailoring content that fits their business needs as well as a great way to get familiar with a CMS before attempting to use a larger one.
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The Kitchen Sink
I've posted the last episode, episode four, in the Freeway Basics series entitled "The Kitchen Sink." This screencast covers a broad range of topics including important topics that were not covered in the previous three episodes. I discuss how to locate some features hidden in the menus as well as places to go to if you're having trouble publishing your website. Unique page outputs, organizational tips, how to use text flow, heck it truly is the kitchen sink.
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Inline Box Model
In this screencast you'll learn how build a website using an inline box-model style construction. I run through first what a box-model is, the benefits of building a site this way, and how to do a bit of trickery to blend two backgrounds together using a series of images only available through this construction.
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Slimbox vs. ScriptyLightbox
In this screencast you'll learn how to use the MooTools Slimbox Action and the ScriptyLightbox Action in Freeway. Both actions have their own unique advantages and disadvantages, but overall they can display visual items on your website in a unique way. Both actions are free to download from actionsforge.com and make sure to use the search box (at the top right of actionsforge.com) to easily locate them. After downloading these two actions it's important to note that they have different installation types and Slimbox requires a different approach, so make sure to read the documentation.
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JQuery 101
I use the JQuery Cycle plug-in quite a few times on this website and if you're unfamiliar with JQuery then it's time to do some explaining. JQuery is a JavaScript library and it is capable of doing some really next-generation effects on the web. On this site is little uses of JQuery and I believe that I can easily add some nice bells and whistles if I spent some time understanding both the language and the coding. I like to think of this screencast as the Pandora's Box to new ways to present content online.
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Creating Graphic Carousels
This free screencast will teach you how to create a graphic carousel that will manually or automatically rotate through a series of images using either a button set or a series of ordered tabs. This is super easy to setup and will showcase a scrolling effect that will wow users and guests on your website. Carousels are typically used to show images and / or content that's general idea and focus need to stay on one page and by using this you'll be able to achieve just that.
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