Homesite is a neat replacement for using
Notepad when composing
web pages in that it's your plain, basic
text editor with a
sprinkling of
extra features (including a
semi-functional table editor and speedy shortcuts for
oft-used tags). Most importantly, for the
HTML purists, it
highlights
tags in
a different colour, so you know
exactly where you
stand at all times, without letting your computer do most of the work thereby
downsizing your own
HTML skillz, right?.
This is, of course, up to version 2.5a. After that, as far as I could see, it began to get ultra-bloaty, going in the same direction of Paint Shop Pro's relationship to Adobe Photoshop by trying too hard to be Dreamweaver and failing miserably. Most definitely A Bad Thing.
Even though I do little web-design stuff these days, it's still on hand for honing them e2 nodes before they get catapulted into the electronic ether. Even if it's only for the spell-check.
But, please, remember: v2.5a.
october 2001: i notice, in my travels around internetland trying to find v2.5 that it's now been usurped by macromedia. hm. interesting.