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Alamy Images and Softpress team up for summer promotion
16th July 2002
Softpress, creator of the award-winning web design application Freeway, today announces an exciting summer promotion in conjunction with Alamy, a leading online provider of specialist images and general material from the world’s top picture libraries and photographers. From now until the end of August 2002, customers who purchase a copy of Freeway 3.5 can download 20 pre-selected, high-quality, Web-ready images from the Softpress website for free - www.softpress.com.
Richard Logan, CEO of Softpress says: "This is an important partnership for us and we are pleased to be working with Alamy. There is a compelling synergy between the two companies particularly as Freeway has always been a favourite among photographic designers. With this promotion we are providing customers with the incentive to see just how simple it is to incorporate photography into websites developed using Freeway 3.5."
"Strong, eye-catching imagery can really help make a website stand out from the crowd," says James West, CEO of Alamy. "Alamy's partnership with Softpress will give Freeway designers access to images from some of the world's leading photographers and picture agencies, enabling them to create even more compelling content for the Web."
These 20 Royalty-Free images to download from the Softpress website have been selected from a variety of the most popular categories in the collection. The high quality images have a retail value in excess of £600, and are ideal to use when designing any website.
Freeway 3.5 for Mac OS X is a unique website creation tool that offers ease-of-use coupled with powerful features. Its intuitive interface allows even first time website designers to immediately create visually outstanding and highly functional sites without the hassle of coding. Freeway 3.5 is priced at £165 excluding VAT.
About Freeway
Freeway is developed to meet the needs of professional designers who require an intuitive tool for creating sophisticated and highly functional websites without the hassle of coding. It provides a fullfeatured intuitive user interface that makes expert Web site design more accessible than with any other Web design application. Freeway's familiar "Page and Pasteboard" environment for designing and accurately positioning type, graphics and multimedia allows publishing experts using print layout applications to feel immediately at home when creating for the web.
Noted for the clean HTML code that it generates, Freeway offers a wide range of features to support the complex and technical aspects of site production. One of the keys to making high-end Web design features accessible is the Freeway Actions technology. Actions, reusable snippets of code, allow designers to easily incorporate custom scripting and a wide range of back-end functionality into the website production process.
Action uses include Web publishing from databases, development of e-commerce solutions, Dynamic HTML behaviours and Javascript objects such as rollovers.
About Softpress
Softpress is a privately held company with its headquarters near Oxford, England. The company was founded in 1993 to address the emerging needs of professional publishers and designers for new media authoring tools. Freeway is the Softpress flagship product and was first released in October 1997.
Trademarks - Freeway™ is a trademark of Softpress Systems Limited. Softpress™ is a trademark of Softpress Systems Limited which is registered in some countries. All other company and product names are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.