Nick Bradbury

Nicholas J. Bradbury (born May 11, 1967) is a -American software developer who created the HomeSite HTML editing tool, which was acquired by Allaire, then Macromedia, and finally absorbed into Adobe Dreamweaver.

Early life
Bradbury was born in and relocated with his family to the United States at an early age. He became interested in computers when his father gave him a, which he used to write the games Moon Runner and Penguin Icarus.

Education
Bradbury enrolled in computer science at the. However, he soon lost interest in computers and switched to the in 1988. He became an award-winning cartoonist at the campus newspaper  and received a B.S. in journalism in 1991.

Career
After briefly working as an editorial cartoonist, Bradbury resumed working on his personal strip called Dexter and developed HomeSite in as a way to maintain the comic website. He later rewrote in for speed and released it in July 1996. After he notified some shareware sites about it, he discovered HomeSite had been downloaded over a thousand times during the first night. Microsoft made the first offer to acquire HomeSite, but Bradbury ended up taking a counter-offer from Allaire Corporation in March 1997 and continued working on HomeSite as a commercial product for 18 months. In March 2001, Allaire was acquired by Macromedia, which itself was acquired by Adobe Systems in December 2005.

After leaving Allaire, Bradbury founded Bradsoft and created TopStyle, a more sophisicated (IDE) for editing, HTML, and. A "Lite" version of TopStyle 2.0 was licensed by Macromedia for inclusion with JRun Studio, which itself was based on HomeSite by Bradbury. The "Lite" version was also bundled with Macromedia HomeSite and Dreamweaver MX, which included an extension that allowed TopStyle to be used as a dedicated CSS editor. In December 2008, TopStyle was acquired by independent software developer Stefan van As.

Since June 2013, Bradbury has been a "mobile wrangler" for, the developers of.

Personal life
Bradbury lost hearing in his left ear in 2005 due to the removal of a tumor that had been detected in the area. He took up to help compensate for loss of balance. He presently resides in with his wife Melissa.