Bastards

I've got Homesite so finely tuned I can whoop any Dreamweaver coder, layout and backend with vastly cleaner code. AFAIC Dreamweaver junks the Internet with wannabes that make it hard for professionals to convince business owners there is a difference.

Curse you Adobe!!

Hey Jeff, can you change the links to my site to be eyecreate.ca instead of eyecreate.net.

Ken

I just found out that Adobe killed Homesite. I am very sad about this. I have been using Homesite since version 2 and am still using it EVERY DAY!    

Why Adobe, why? I know you just wanna sell big expensive packages, but this is just stupid! I will never use Dreamweaver. Why would I wanna use a big and slow massive program if I can use a quick text editor.

THIS IS A VERY BAD CORPORATE DECISSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!

I think if you just put 2 developers on it, you would easily make the money back with a new release.

Anywayz, one more reason to slowly start to abandon all Adobe products. There weren't any alternatives in the past for Adobe products, but there are now!

Adobe = Profit craving M.F.'s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHY???????????

that macromedia sucks what you see is adobe RIPing EXCELLENT programs, like HOMESITE, the best editor of history.

ADOBE MONEY MACHINE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LET'S DO SOMETHING?!???

I too have used Homesite from the day that Nick first advertised it (ver 1).

Adobe and MacroM never had any intention of developing it. The just got it as a lost leader, to try and get users to use their pile of s%$t instead

Well I for one will never use macrocrap ore Adobe as it is now. I tried the MM version and it is a pile of Shite compared to Homesite.

I also use Topstyle so I hope that keeps going. at the moment I am trialing Web Builder 2010 and it has a lot of similaritys to Homesite.. Check it out and let us know what you think.

http://www.blumentals.net/webuilder/

Steve

Really, it is extremely close to Homesite in almost every way. It does XHTML well, you can download a free trial of it and check it out for yourself. I have been forcing myself to migrate to it from Homesite as HS will never be updated.

Todd

RE:  Blumentals Web Builder 2010

I am blown away! There are some really great features here that Homesite does not have. It Is like Homestie, only better. It does not have a table wizard as good as Homesite, that I can find anyway, but I rely on tables too much and need to learn to do my layout with CSS. It does a lot of the stuff that Topstyle does as well. I have only being using it for 2 days about 4 hours a day, trying out as much as I can to see how much it is like Homesite. There is going to be a learning curve (I have used Homesite since ver 3.5) because things are different and I will have to learn where they are but Homesite is dying and I have to move on. Thank you so much for finding this program to give me some place to move on to.

Yvonne

does Web Builder 2010 run on windows7 64bit ???

I am pulling my hair out......... coding in homesite4.5 on my windows2000 server and switching to Vista 64 bit to upload...

Been using Komodo on vista.  Its no homesite.  dreamweaver is for people who CANT code.

Lame.Adobe made the WRONG MOVE.  shoulda scrapped dreamweaver and built on Homesite.  At least their software is so expensive most wannaBees won't be able to afford it.  still........ far too many.  The web is a playground.  You don't see any kid with frontpage or dreamweaver putting together magazines ............. what happened ??  damn.

Also mourning the loss of the product...

Just upgraded to Windows 7 64-bit this week and when attempting to install Homesite 5.5+ it wouldn't budge. Seems to be bad installer, probably due to 16-bit support drop in 64-bit windows. When I get VM version of XP going, will reinstall, but what a pain to have to run different OS to use probably one of the best coders that ever existed. Been using since 3.0.

Dreamweaver...blah on coding, and the acquisition of companies is no surprise. Seems whenever something good is developed, money is made, then company or product is sold while successful. Then new company drops support or development, and your forced to move to another one of their products or find something new altogether.

RIP HomeSite....

Just want to add myself to the list of those who think this is a crazy decision.

Adobe must know that HomeSite has a strong and loyal user community, who also use other Adobe products. This feels like a(nother) slap in the face to Adobe customers. It's worth remembering what happened to Quark...

Either HomeSite was making money, in which case why abandon it?, or it was losing money, in which case why not open-source it? Open-sourcing is never without effort, but for Adobe could mean kudos, credibility and plenty of free PR.

Anyone from Adobe care to enlighten us?

There is no value when Dreamweaver builds its own profiles and tweaks highly trusted and workable code.  I have been with HomeSite way back before it was made, when BBEdit was the most popular tool for coders (yet it was MAC Base and not windows in 1997).  The advantage of HomeSite is that it did not add code, change code or even stitch code into profiles.  It allowed you as a programmer do whatever you want.  I'd rather have control over my code that have CF or even Dreamvweaver destroy what has worked perfectly for years with me.

It is sad that Homesite is not available and truly Adobe should resurrect it or release the code to someone who can fix it and make it available for windows 7 / 64 bit.

I remember the days of FrontPage, Cold Fusion and Dreamweaver.  As good as they can be, for diehard coders, it is easier to code 1 line than jump through a bunch of GUI garble to make 1 line in Dreamweaver.

I'm sad.

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