Macromedia Backstage

Backstage was a line of web site development tools created by iBand and later acquired by Macromedia. Its major competitors at the time were Adobe PageMill and SiteMill, and.

Product history
In December 1995, iBand first announced Backstage for Windows 3.1, 95 and NT. Beta testing for Windows 95 and NT began in March 1996.

Macromedia acquired iBand and the Backstage product line on March 13, 1996. Version 1.0 of Macromedia Backstage Desktop Studio and Enterprise Studio were released as part of a trial beta program in April 1996 and shipped on April 29 and July 1, respectively.



Macromedia began beta testing Backstage Internet Studio 2 in December 1996. It was released in the first quarter of 1997 in Desktop and Enterprise editions.

Legacy
The codebase of Backstage later became the foundation of Macromedia Dreamweaver. In December 2005, Macromedia itself was acquired by Adobe Systems. Adobe then rebranded the program as Adobe Dreamweaver, which replaced their own GoLive HTML editor.