Pros
None...since the program no longer exists.
Cons
The fact that it doesn't exist.
Summary
Allaire company was bought by Adobe, in fact the "VISIT-SITE-External-download-link" button leads to the dowload page for Adobe Dreamweaver trial...and that costs 399 UDS, not 99 USD!!!
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Reply by jazzand on May 25, 2012
Yeah, it's sad because this was a great program, and originally FREEWARE. HomeSite 1.2 was my go-to editor for HTML code all through the 90s and up until about 2005. It had a simple clean interface and shortcuts for lots of common commands. I still have a copy of the freeware version (and you can find it online too) but it doesn't run on Windows 7 (and I don't know about XP, the last OS I used it under was Win98). Adobe has this nasty habit of buying the competition and then killing the product. Allaire was actually sold FIRST to Macromedia and I used a number of their products including Fontographer which I was using to create some specialized fonts for use in a guitar book I was working on at the time. But they dropped the product and it wouldn't install under XP, so when I updated my computers, I was screwed.
Pros
Homesite+ was only $99. It's skips a lot of WYSIWYG features you find in Dreamweaver and Frontpage. It's fast & easy to use. It lets real developers build code in a hassle free environment. It is the original IDE for CF & native to the CF language.
Cons
They are no longer making it.
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It was a very simple a solid Text editor. Very easy to navigate.
Cons
Deploying the site can be a bit frustrating. Worst is Adobe bought and abandoned Homesite support for this is zilch. The trying to push users to their bloated and way to expensive Dreamweaver.
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Pros
- If you have a good basic knowlodge of HTML is the THE editor to use
Cons
- Not recommended for beginners. For beginners I recommend the Coffecup editor instead
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Pros
-Easy to use
-Easy Navigation
-Good for web developer with beginner experience
-Faster than other similar html tag generator type
-Convert to XML easily
-Suggest error
Cons
-Not recommended for microsoft frontpage users, it'll slow you down because most tag write manually
-Error suggestions sometimes not accurate
-Price to expensive
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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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It saves my time so much that I simply can't live without it!!! Even if you do not remember all tags, you can use it - it is like having your own prompter when making new sites...
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