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Macromedia HomeSite 5

Box of HomeSite 5.5

Macromedia HomeSite was a series of HTML editing tools developed and released by Allaire and then Macromedia. It was included with ColdFusion as ColdFusion Studio. It was also bundled with Macromedia Dreamweaver.

Product history

Independent programmer Nick Bradbury originally wrote HomeSite 1.0 in Delphi for speed and compactness to maintain his online comic website, Dexter. He notified some shareware sites after releasing HomeSite in July 1996, only to discover that it had been downloaded over a thousand times during the first night. [1] It was also positively received by trade magazines.[2] Microsoft made the first offer to acquire HomeSite, but Bradbury ended up taking a counter-offer from Allaire in March 1997 and continued working on HomeSite as a commercial product for 18 months.[1]

Allaire was absorbed by Macromedia in a merger that was completed on March 20, 2001.[3] Macromedia itself was acquired by Adobe Systems on December 5, 2005.[4] HomeSite's functionality was built into Adobe Dreamweaver and development was discontinued on May 26, 2009.[5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Born to Code, Part II by Nick Bradbury, TypePad. 2006-04-13.
  2. Web Publishing Teaches New Tricks by Nill Machrone, PC Magazine. 1997-02-18.
  3. Macromedia Completes Merger With Allaire, Macromedia. 2001-03-20. Archived 2001-03-30.
  4. Adobe Completes Acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe Systems. 2005-12-05. Archived 2005-12-07.
  5. HomeSite development ended, Adobe Systems. 2009-05-26.

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Discontinued in May 2009
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