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Thread: Macromedia's Homesite 5.5
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Advanced Member USA Joined: Mar 24, 2005 Post Count: 3000 Status: Offline |
I left my old HTML Text Editor and I'm not looking back!
Macromedia doesn't exactly showcase this product; however, if I understand correctly, it is the backbone html/text editor for Macromedia MX. As you can see below, it isn't listed under the Products menu. Navigate to the "more" link and you'll scroll through other Macromedia web application before finding Homesite:  Apparently the support is loose and development of the product in not happening. The official statement from Macromedia is that they are not obligated to discuss their plans of product development. Key feature: The menu bars are fully customizable, which allows the crowded mess of the default set-up here:  Become more manageable. I completely customized this to my work habits and took away the obselete and uneccessary tools.  And it allows you to create new tags. Other editors do as well. My old one did. But with Macromedia, I could import my own icons! And I set up a few commonly used css snippets as well. Feature that needs work: I think the color pallette could have more functionality. For example, my old editor would recogonize a highlighted hex color and show the color in its pallette view. This one doesn't. It does have a color picker, but it is limited to the macromedia window.  I easily edited the default templates.  I had to update all of the default DTD's in the settings and arranged tags to be lower case and in quotes which wasn't a big deal. Key Feature: The internal browser easily recognized my local server and had no problems pulling up my PHP webs. This is great functionality. I couldn't get this to work in my other editor so I was always bouncing back and forth between external browsers to see my php includes. Now I can use the internal browser set as IE and keep FFox open as an external browser.  My next set of configs will be to get the internal ftp functions running so I don't need an external ftp app running as well. I'm very happy with this editor and for the price $99.00 USD it is well worth it!!!  - ---------------------------------------- "The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings." -Okakura Kakuzo Save the developers<!> Maine Webworks |
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Advanced Member Joined: Jun 14, 2003 Post Count: 2940 Status: Offline |
How are the site management tools with Homesite - things like finding dead links, code validation, renaming pages etc ... ? I remember it had something called 'code snippets' or just 'snippets' that allowed you to create a library of code ... snippets. ---------------------------------------- Stefan Mischook Video Tutorial Store | Web Templates |
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adesigninteractive
Stranger USA Joined: Jan 4, 2006 Post Count: 2 Status: Offline |
As a new member, i'd like to say that I look forward to being a part of KillerSites.com . I make no claim as an expert, however I do enjoy helping others when and if I am able. Everyone has something to learn from one another, I believe. Even Yoda! ('course... i guess he's gone now huh?) anyway... I'm curious about this Allaire... *cough* ..ahem.. i mean Macromedia (*belch* ... struggles as word sticks in throat... *spit*.. ahh. better...) HomeSite+ stuff. I used to be a really gung-ho HomeSite+ user (forgive me, as i don't recall the differences and whether HS+ is v5.0 or 5.5 -- some variation on 5.5, i believe). As my skills in PHP / MySQL development were growning, I began to look around for an IDE tailored to enhance PHP / MySQL development. After trying the PHP plugin for Eclipse (phpEclipse), a Java based IDE, and Zend Development Environment (quite the popular IDE amongst the PHP community), I was graced with a recommendation (in of all places, a CSS desingers forum) to try Tanggaard Software (a Denmark co.) TSW WebCoder 2005 . I'm very, very glad that I found TSW Webcoder as it is much like HomeSite in a lot of ways-- so the switch-over was relatively painless, and the best part about it is that it has some really cool PHP / MySQL application development features-- such as what i call its "real-time" connection to a MySQL server on LocalHost. As part of this database server integration, WebCoder offers a productivity enhancing feature which I have yet to find on any other PHP / MySQL IDE's. This feature (which as far as I am aware is unique to WebCoder) essentially amounts to a drag and drop from the db resource window into the code view, such that a variety of useful mysql_query() functions can be selected before a neatly formatted, 100% accurate query is finally inserted into the code. Selecting one, or several rows of data, inserting, updating-- all the basics are there, and it's very "smart" that way-- unlike would often happen from my potential for human error when using HomeSite, WebCoder never makes a spelling error, or forgets the db or table name, always offers to addslashes for text content, etc., and so on-- as would be expected from a fine IDE product, and certainly one that a consumer would expect to pay big-bucks for (yet WebCoder is less than $30 USD, and offers a "25 Free Uses" feature which, if used "strategically" can amount to, in my case, a few months of "FREE" use before I finally put the cheque in the mail, so to speak!). I could go on about reasons why i like WebCoder other than those that appeal to my lack of fundage, like its real-time monitoring of the stylesheet (if using the CSS IDE, for example, the extraordinarily value priced TopStyle Lite [FREE!], as I do), "CodeSnippet" Library, FTP, Project Management, etc-- but wait-- this isn't a WebCoder thread! I posted here because I recently decided to go back and play with HomeSite again. I must say it is still an excellent product-- even after my thorough satisfaction with WebCoder-- it would only be fair (to the people formerly of Allaire) to say I'm glad to have them both as they both have their own set of roses and thorns. What on Earth was my reason for posting to this thread? well-- i've done some bit of research, but I haven't yet confirmed one way or the other whether there exists any "plugins" or "extensions" for HomeSite which would grant such MySQL integration features as those i've mentioned that WebCoder so gracefully implements. i found this web site which is nothing short of a repository for PHP-related HomeSite enhancements. But, the closest thing I found there was a link to 'MySQL Tools" where I was unable to tell if the combination of the HS plugin will allow for functions similar to those i've described are available in my current favorite, WebCoder. Does anyone out there have experience with HomeSite and MySQL? have you found any MySQL / PHP development enhancement extensions for HomeSite which are worth investigating? Can you tell me a bit about what you've seen? Is there any word on forthcoming HS development? From what i read the last time I ventured to their website, the MM rockstars claim that HomeSite development has ceased. can we believe a company that charges $600 for their superfluous-code-inserting IDE, or should we assume that it's merely being re-worked into something that will be packaged along with something else for which you will have to spend half-a-thousand to purchase? my guess is the answer is yes on the latter. they've taken away our nearly perfect development tool so that they can sell us the entire deli section when all we really wanted was a slice of bologna-- now that's marketing, eh!? ;) (sorry-- i gotta apologize for my heavy-handed anti-speak, but-- it's just how i feel the web-site-record-execs over there at MM, who entice the little web-site-rockstar wanna be's into spending tons of money, and of course, get rich off of it. pay it no mind, and please try to focus on my inquiry vs my b.s.) thanks so much for reading!! good day to you! ---------------------------------------- EDUCATE | DISSEMINATE http://novicenotes.net ---------------------------------------- [Edit 2 times, last edit by adesigninteractive at Jan 4, 2006 7:51:13 AM] |
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Advanced Member USA Joined: Mar 24, 2005 Post Count: 3000 Status: Offline |
I'm not sure how I missed this... you can find some php related extensions - 3rd party - linked to a page in the homesite area of .macromedia.com -- or is it adobe.com. - ---------------------------------------- "The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings." -Okakura Kakuzo Save the developers<!> Maine Webworks |
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adesigninteractive
Stranger USA Joined: Jan 4, 2006 Post Count: 2 Status: Offline |
I'm not sure how I missed this... haha... nor am i sure how i forgot about this most excellent location for learning. i need to get back here more often! i'm on Linux these days. anyone have any cool tips or suggestions for Web Developers on Linux? i'm actually looking for something that might serve a similar purpose as "Top Style"? kind regards -js (ps. sorry to resurrect such an old thread-- but then again... it's about HomeSite, so... well.. it's kinda okay, right? :) ---------------------------------------- EDUCATE | DISSEMINATE http://novicenotes.net |
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