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4 stars
Version: HomeSite 5.5
"solid program"
Pros: I tried quite a few text editors before Homesite mostly due to its pretty outrageous price tag, but over time I'm happy I decided to invest in it. It does everything it sets out to do well. I have found myself thinking I wish it.... so many times, and when I look in the manual, sure enough, it does just that and some. That's how programs, especially programs as expensive as this one, should be. There's some excellent free text editors and some very good, very cheap ones too which I've tried which have about 1/2, sometimes 3/4 of what Homesite offers. But when it comes time to work with code, I always open Homesite. I really like how it's not annoying in anyway too, no popups, no commercial jargon, no buy dreamweaver today!
Cons: Support for this program is dwindling rapidly, especially since Adobe bought it. I bought mine as a download from their online store and it didn't even come with any sort of a manual I could find. I called Adobe and was redirected about 5 times before some guy who was on his lunchbreak told me that he really liked homesite so i was in luck because he knew where the manual was. Yikes! for future purchasers! The manual is in help references window, simple enough so I'll leave it at that. Also the ftp manager is convenient and seems solid, but I get this annoying byte discrepancy message everytime. I don't know if this is homesite or the various server's I've tried problem. I have solved it either way by disabled the option altogether.
The validator validates very well, but they don't offer the extent of suggestions that the w3c validators offer, so I usually use those too. It is convenient though to have it built in. To be fair, I never have found any errors that it missed and the w3c validator caught. It does get things wrong though, such as telling me that br / is not valid syntax, but I think this is due to it being a workaround overall.
The manual could use some improvement, though if you do some searches online you can find more detailed manuals from when Macromedia still owned and bothered with Homesite. I'm kind of surpised that Homesite is not more respected, considering it's used within Dreamweaver. That's something worth noting too. If you buy Dreamweaver, you get homesite free. The educational version of Dreamweaver runs about $200 so if you're not using it for commercial purposes it might be more worth it than to buy homesite separate and later decide you want Dreamweaver. I bought just Homesite cause I prefer text editing for just about all purposes (for the other purposes I got myself a much cheaper and still good editor from coffeecup). If you like WYSIWYG editors though, I think Dreamweaver is a more worthwhile investment than Homesite.
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