Macromedia HomeSite

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 its 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. 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 have 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 [1] and proposed updating HomeSite licenses to Adobe Dreamweaver licenses.

• 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.