Comments on: Homesite is No More – Adobe Discontinues Development http://www.htmlcenter.com/blog/homesite-is-no-more-adobe-discontinues-development/ Web Development Help and Tutorials Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:25:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Allen http://www.htmlcenter.com/blog/homesite-is-no-more-adobe-discontinues-development/#comment-9138 Allen Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:57:38 +0000 http://www.htmlcenter.com/?p=978#comment-9138 nice - will check it out - thanks nice – will check it out – thanks

]]> By: Curtiss http://www.htmlcenter.com/blog/homesite-is-no-more-adobe-discontinues-development/#comment-9131 Curtiss Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:25:52 +0000 http://www.htmlcenter.com/?p=978#comment-9131 It's sad. I was disappointed in 2007 when GlobalScape <a href="http://www.globalscape.com/support/htm.aspx" rel="nofollow">discontinued CuteHTML,</a> as that was my favorite (from the sounds of it, it was rather similar to HomeSite). This is why I use Linux for quite a bit of my Web development, as there are still a handful of really good, simple, lightweight editors available for Linux (including Bluefish, my current favorite). Still, you should at least count yourself lucky that Adobe continued support for HomeSite into Vista. Those of us that used Pagemaker (I started using PageMaker at version 3, back in the Aldus days), we lost support when Vista came out. Instead, we were forced to either purchase InDesign (which currently runs $199 for an upgrade and $699 for a new copy) or keep Windows XP (which, for those of us that bought new computers around that time, was not really an option, unless we purchased a full license for XP, which was basically the same price as InDesign). The worst part was, InDesign (for that $199 upgrade price tag) was really just a repackaging of PageMaker, with very few new features. For PHP code, though, <a href="http://www.mpsoftware.dk/phpdesigner.php" rel="nofollow">phpDesigner</a> is a really nice alternative, and extremely inexpensive ($55). I'm not sure how it would do with other languages, but I'm sure it's worth a try (there's a free trial). It’s sad. I was disappointed in 2007 when GlobalScape discontinued CuteHTML, as that was my favorite (from the sounds of it, it was rather similar to HomeSite).

This is why I use Linux for quite a bit of my Web development, as there are still a handful of really good, simple, lightweight editors available for Linux (including Bluefish, my current favorite).

Still, you should at least count yourself lucky that Adobe continued support for HomeSite into Vista. Those of us that used Pagemaker (I started using PageMaker at version 3, back in the Aldus days), we lost support when Vista came out. Instead, we were forced to either purchase InDesign (which currently runs $199 for an upgrade and $699 for a new copy) or keep Windows XP (which, for those of us that bought new computers around that time, was not really an option, unless we purchased a full license for XP, which was basically the same price as InDesign). The worst part was, InDesign (for that $199 upgrade price tag) was really just a repackaging of PageMaker, with very few new features.

For PHP code, though, phpDesigner is a really nice alternative, and extremely inexpensive ($55). I’m not sure how it would do with other languages, but I’m sure it’s worth a try (there’s a free trial).

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