Macromedia HomeSite 5 any feelings
Hello all we are looking into purchasing 2 Homesite 5 licenses but are wondering what everyone thinks of it, anyone used it at all any pros or cons that u can find out only after using it for awhile ?
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Jack Michaelson posted this at 10:39 — 18th January 2002.
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IMO HS 5 is a good choice if you haven't got HS 4.5. Otherwise I should stick with HS 4.5 (like I did after using the HS 5 trial
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Hope it helps,
taff posted this at 12:20 — 18th January 2002.
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I've been using HomeSite since version 2.5. The basic program is so good that, like Jack, I only bother upgrading if there are dramatic enhancements. I skipped v3 altogether, got 4 and 4.5 but am as of yet, undecided whether to bother with 5. The most significant feature being XHTML support
Hmm, it occurs to me that you may not currently be using HS at all and we are here discussing upgrades
If this is the case, I highly recommend the program in general. The only con is some self-confessed issues with system resources.
HomeSite only recently became a Macromedia product. I imagine that you can expect it to become further integrated with the rest of their product line as time goes by.
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mairving posted this at 13:37 — 18th January 2002.
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Homesite is also my program of choice. Along with Photoshop, it is the main reason I still use Windows since there are no Linux versions available.
You might look at this thread for more info.
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Megan posted this at 14:14 — 18th January 2002.
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I agree with the others here. HS is by far the best HTML editor on the market as far as I can tell. You can get a lot of knock-offs for cheaper, but they won't have the full range of features that homesite has. I find that a good editor can speed up development time *a lot* when compared to a bare bones text editor like notepad, and can help you write cleaner and more correct code when compared to WYSIWYG editors.
But I haven't used v. 5 at all if that's what you specifically wanted to know about. It didn't seem to me that the newer features were worth the upgrade from 4.5 - at least not for me at this point in time.
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BL42 posted this at 17:34 — 22nd January 2002.
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Add me to the list, I live by HS 4.5 and Bradsoft's Topstyle.
I also share mairving's sentiment, I long for the day when I can remove that Windows partition.
mairving, have you tried The GIMP yet? I've heard it's pretty good.
mairving posted this at 18:30 — 22nd January 2002.
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I didn't like it much. I think that I am just too familar with Photoshop. Also I rarely run Linux in Window mode so it doesn't help much. I am curious though if Adobe will have a Unix/Linux version in the near future. After all they are porting it to OSX, which is based on BSD.
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detox posted this at 13:26 — 23rd January 2002.
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I leave the update check on in my version of 4.5, simply to tempt me! No luck yet, like the others i haven't seen enough in the upgrade in the way of new features to really tip me over the edge.
If you use HS properly anyway, you'll have snippets and little bits of code all over the place which speeds up dev time enourmmously. So (at least in my opinion) I dont really see the need to upgrade.
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