Product Features
The Editor
The core of HomeSite is its editor, which is powerful, extensible, and user-friendly. You can type in code directly or use a range of visual tools to insert and edit page elements. An extensive set of wizards and templates speeds the page creation process and you can save any HTML document as a template. You can drag-and-drop documents, images, and media files into the editor to quickly build links. Code snippets can be saved for re-use and shared with other developers. Word processing features such as spell checking (including support for the Microsoft Office spell checker), powerful search and replace, automatic expansion of abbreviations, and bookmarks make document chores easy. You can even configure startup options for files and folders!
Browsers
HomeSite comes with it's own browser, but supports Microsoft Internet Explorer as the internal browser. It automatically detects a number of common browsers and adds them to its list of external browsers, so you can easily view pages on the browsers your site supports.
Design Mode and CodeSweeper
Design Mode to quickly position page elements and edit content. The new CodeSweeper feature can be configured to preserve code formatting rules as you move from Design to Edit modes.
Code Validation
A new validator allows you to test code against different levels of HTML, versions of Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, ColdFusion Markup Language, and SMIL. You can optionally install and use the CSE HTML Validator.
More Productivity Tools
- Tag Chooser and Tag Editors - quickly insert tags from multiple languages and open tag-specific editors to select attributes
- Tag Insight and Tag Completion - speed coding by inserting tag attributes and end tags as you write
- Style Editor - lets you create, preview, and edit Cascading Style Sheets
- Site View and Link Verification - display site hierarchy and test local and remote links, including image maps
- Projects and Version Source Control - organize, test, and deploy site content and enable file management for team development
- Tag Inspector and Tag Tree - offers a property sheet interface for writing and editing pages and a configurable view of the current page's structure
- Language Color-coding - makes it easy to review page elements by assigning colors to HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, SQL, ASP, PHP3, Perl
- OLE Automation Support and Active Scripting - powerful tools for application developers and power users. See the next topic - The Visual Tools Object Model - for a brief overview and a link to the VTOM documentation.
- Macromedia Dreamweaver support - integrate HomeSite's editing capabilities when creating pages in Dreamweaver
Performance Enhancements
- Faster file loading
- Faster document display
- Better resource usage when running on Win95/98
- Threaded file list for quicker scanning of large directories
Customizable Interface
You can set up HomeSite to work the way you want to work:
- Dockable toolbars can be arranged in place or positioned anywhere in the workspace for quick access
- Toolbars can be customized to contain selected buttons
- Add your own keyboard shortcuts for commands and code snippets
- Work in full-screen mode for maximum page view
- Re-size Resources tab, editor, and results pane as needed
- Build your own wizards and tag editors with the Visual Tools Markup Language
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