Macromedia HomeSite

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

Product history
In 1995, independent programmer Nick Bradbury began writing HomeSite in for his own personal use to maintain his online comic website, Dexter. He then rewrote what became HomeSite 1.0 in for speed and compactness 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. It was also positively received by trade magazines. 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.

Allaire was absorbed by Macromedia in a merger that was completed on March 20, 2001. Macromedia released Macromedia HomeSite 5 later that year and continued development through version 5.5. Variants of HomeSite 5 were included with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX and MX 2004 as "HomeSite+", which added functionality for application development with Macromedia ColdFusion MX and MX 6.1.

Discontinuation
Macromedia itself was acquired by Adobe Systems on December 5, 2005. Adobe announced that development on HomeSite was being discontinued on May 26, 2009 and offered Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 as a substitute. On March 22, 2010, Adobe introduced Adobe ColdFusion Builder as their new (IDE) for dedicated ColdFusion development.

External link

 * Macromedia HomeSite 5/ 5.5 at Macromedia (archived 2001-11-08 / 2003-10-01)
 * HomeSite 5.2 Release Notes (archived 2003-01-23)
 * HomeSite Support Center at Adobe
 * HomeSite+ for Dreamweaver MX Release Notes at Adobe
 * HomeSite+ 5.2 Release Notes
 * Macromedia HomeSite at the Adobe Wiki
 * at Wikipedia