about
HTML Studio was written back in the day when HTML editors were actually still popular. There was even something that you could
perhaps call a scene, a subculture of some sort, within the German webdesign community (we are talking ~2003/2004 here). A handful of
freeware HTML code editors, mostly done by amateurs (in the good sense), but all dead
by now.
Or maybe this is just the screwed perspective of someone who lost interest. Or my point of view as a programmer of one
of those programs was always different.
I already sneaked a couple of links into the above paragraph, but the tool with the biggest fanbase, the most
widespread use, the editor to rule them all, was, without a doubt, one called Uli Meybohm's HTML editor
(sometimes also referred to as phase5). It certainly was one of the first, and most other tools (including this one)
were at one point or the other accused of copying it. Of course, phase5 in turn adopted many things from Nick Bradbury's
Homesite, which was later sold to Macromedia (which was later sold to Adobe).
By the way, Nick is now responsible for the excellent Feed Demon, of which
I'm a proud and satisfied user.
In any case, there are probably dozens of better and more powerful alternatives out there now (and really, who still uses
plain, static HTML files?), but if there is a chance that someone will find it useful, I might as well offer it for download
here (see below).
screenshot
download
- The final version - 1.4 (2.7 MB)
- Just for fun: The first ever version - 1.0 (777 KB)
- Creating you own plugins - documentation (213 KB)
last words
I would like to give a shoutout to the people that supported the project back in the day via a donation. Namely, in chronological order,
Andreas Losert, Holme Computer Systeme, Computerline troxler, Reher Elisangela, Thaler Anton, Jürgen Keller, Paul Mundy,
Frank Heiko Bauman, and the one guy who wanted to stay anonymous. Thank you.