

Macromedia licensed a copy of HomeSite to include in Windows versions of Dreamweaver 1.0 (Mac versions bundled BBEdit). Allaire developers expanded upon Nick's original HomeSite capabilities by adding features like built-in scripting, improved syntax coloring, and VTML for tag insight and tag editors. Allaire kept this concept going as its target market of ColdFusion users were code-centric as well.
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While many software companies at the time had WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) website creation tools where the user never saw the code, Nick Bradbury created a product that was code centric and popular with those that preferred to work directly in the code, a concept that was dubbed "What You See Is What You Need." Further he built in a variety of ways that users could customize the user interface and extend the functionality. In the days that HomeSite was under Nick Bradbury, and then part of Allaire, it had an enthusiastic following from its user community. Development of HomeSite continued in parallel, though the standalone HomeSite was still sold separately. This version was later merged into Coldfusion MX under Macromedia, and was then called HomeSite+. Macromedia acquired Allaire in 2001 and was in turn acquired by Adobe in 2005.Īt Allaire, a version of HomeSite was created as an IDE for ColdFusion, selling as ColdFusion Studio. After leaving Allaire in 1998, Bradbury went on to work on the CSS/xHTML editor TopStyle and the RSS reader FeedDemon. Allaire) acquired HomeSite and Nick Bradbury joined Allaire.


In March 1997 Allaire Corporation from Cambridge, Massachusetts (founded by brothers Jeremy and J.J. Bradbury wrote HomeSite after using HotDog and being frustrated with it. It was originally developed in Borland Delphi in 1995 by Nick Bradbury.
