Macromedia HomeSite

Macromedia HomeSite is a Macromedia program for developing web pages, such as Macromedia Dreamweaver or Microsoft FrontPage. HomeSite - HTML editor for the Windows environment.

Adobe HomeSite (formerly Macromedia HomeSite) is an HTML editor that is currently owned by Adobe Systems. HomeSite is not a WYSIWYG editor such as FrontPage or Dreamweaver.

HomeSite is an HTML editor. It offers many help functions ("wizards") to help you solve standard tasks.

HomeSite was originally developed in 1995 by Nick Bradbury and in March 1997 by Allaire Corp. accepted. In 2001 Allaire was taken over by Macromedia and Macromedia 2006 by Adobe. On May 26, 2009, Adobe announced that HomeSite development and distribution would be discontinued. Adobe Dreamweaver is recommended as an upgrade path.

HomeSite recognizes the type of a document by the <!DOCTYPE>entry. Once the type has been recognized, it offers the appropriate commands. Supported formats include XHTML, JavaScript, VBScript, Perl, Active X, ColdFusion, VTML, Java, JSP, WML, ASP, CSS, PHP, SQL, DHTML and more.

It also supports code completion and insight tags. Tags that are opened are automatically closed again using code completion. The Insight tags show the programmer the possible attributes of a tag that he can select.

The program TopStyle -Lite is included in the package for easy editing of CSS files.

Is only available as an English-language basic version, but a German language pack is available.

Designed in 1996 by Nick Bradbury, it played a significant role in the history of HTML editors as an interface model, followed by dozens of other programmers. A strong set of tools and good ergonomics made him a program that won many rankings in the computer press in the following years.

Initially, Bradbury's proprietary program, in 1997 (v. 3.0) passed under the wings of Allaire, which in turn was sold to Macromedia, where the editor was part of the Macromedia Dreamweaver webmaster package, as a source code editor - HomeSite 5.5 is also available as a separate program. In 2005, Macromedia was bought by Adobe.

Bradbury himself resigned from developing HomeSite'a still at Allaire and founded his own company dedicated to the development editor of styles CSS TopStyle and feed reader RSS FeedDemon.

History

HomeSite was originally developed in 1995 by Bradbury Software, founded by Nick Bradbury. In March 1997, Allaire Corporation (founded by Jeremy D. Allaire and his brother Joseph J. (JJ) Allaire) acquired HomeSite. After leaving Allaire in 1998, Nick continued to work on the TopStyle CSS/xHTML editor and FeedDemon RSS feed. Macromedia Corporation acquired Allaire in 2001. Some active HomeSite users have criticized Macromedia for negligence in the more expensive Dreamweaver editor. In 2006, Adobe bought Macromedia and in its future you can doubt even more.

When HomeSite was owned by Nick Bradbury, and later Allaire, he had numerous fans from his user community. While many computer companies used WYSIWYG -tools to create a site where the user did not see the code, Nick Bradbury created a program in which the code itself took center stage. The program fell in love with those who preferred to work directly with the code. This concept was: "You See What You Need".

Then he built in a variety of tools so that the user could redo the user interface and expand the functions performed. Allaire has retained this concept since its target market for ColdFusion users has also put code at the center. The developers at Allaire have expanded the initial version of HomeSite with new features such as syntax highlighting, built-in scripting and VTML to understand the tags themselves and tag editors.

Nick Bradbury, and then Allaire, supported a policy of having an open support forum for those interested in their product, both for professionals and beginners. HomeSite fans contributed to the development of the program by making online offers and improving those offers among themselves. Allaire developers participated in discussions and took into account all user suggestions. Allaire Corporation has launched an open forum for beta versions of programs. Allaire used HomeSite as a relative mass market product, maintaining a price of $99, for which it was widely used. The idea was to attract as many web developers using HomeSite as possible and then introduce them to ColdFusion.

Allaire increased the HomeSite user community from 25 thousand in 1997 to 400 thousand in 2001. The user community was ranked higher than revenue. And users responded with recognition and affection for the tool, supporting each other, creating and sharing a wide range of HomeSite features.

Macromedia licensed a copy of HomeSite and included it in Dreamweaver 1.0. This OEM gave rise to a kinship between the companies, which ultimately led to the acquisition of Allaire by Macromedia in 2001. Macromedia was in turn acquired by Adobe in 2005.

On May 26, 2009, Adobe announced the discontinuation of HomeSite development and support and proposed updating HomeSite licenses to Adobe Dreamweaver licenses.

Versions

• Homesite 1.x (September 1996)
• Allaire Homesite 2.0
• Allaire HomeSite 3.0 (November 1997)
• Allaire HomeSite 4.0 (November 1998)
• Allaire HomeSite 4.5 (1999)
• Macromedia HomeSite 5.0 (2001)
• Macromedia HomeSite 5.2 (January 2003)
• Macromedia HomeSite 5.5 (September 2003)

There is also another version called HomeSite + which is included in Dreamweaver MX 2004 and above. HomeSite + has additional features for application extensions, and is generally similar to the version of HomeSite previously called ColdFusion Studio.