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FileMaker to discontinue HomePage

updated 08:32 pm EST, Tue January 2, 2001

FileMaker today announced that it would discontinue distribution of its Home Page web-authoring software on February 1, 2001, but notes that it will continue to support the product through July of 2001:

Distribution of Home Page has been small and declining for some time, as inexpensive and even free web-page creation alternatives have multiplied. Unfortunately, the demand for Home Page does not warrant the large investment needed to revise it.

Home Page does not fit with FileMaker's focus on creating market-leading workgroup database tools. And the role Home Page once played in creating websites which serve dynamic data from FileMaker databases has been surpassed by more powerful solutions....FileMaker is committed to providing straightforward ways of publishing FileMaker Pro content to the Web. FileMaker plans to make it easy for customers to export FileMaker content in a format so it can be edited by leading web-authoring tools. So it will be even easier to serve dynamic FileMaker data on web pages and websites built with leading web-authoring tools.

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Make it Free?

How about making it a free/unsupported software?

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Home Page

How about selling it to some company so they can update it? It's a great product for education .... no other web authoring program is as simple, powerful and inexpensive.

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open source?

Could FileMaker release the source? I think it would be a great benefit to the community. We could enhance it to make it the most standards-compliant authoring tool available.

I'm sure the Darwin crowd would love having the code available to port it to X Windows....

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too old... too late

They did not update the software for years (I remember I discovered the version 3 in early 1998...), now every body has come up with better and more powerfull softwares... too bad for Home Page that FileMaker is so bad managed, they could have come up with a new release/ updated version with new features and keep their customers.

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Free!!!

Make it free, bundled with every new Mac!!!

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Let them have WebObjects!

Aw s**** HomePage! I think Apple should let FileMaker take over WebObjects Development.

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Farewell Homepage

Alas, Homepage -- once a pleasant enough web page editor (I have used it since 1.0 which was cutting edge ;) ) -- is dead.

The only reason not to give it away is either (a) they think they can sell it, or (b) it violates the clause of the agreement they had with the original developers (HomePage was not developed in-house).

The html editor that Apple includes with OSX Public Beta looks pretty good. It has some arcane user interface problems (I'd actually call them bugs) but assuming these are fixed prior to the OSX release it will be a more than satisfactory replacement for Home Page. Of course that's no consolation to HomePage customers.

Finally -- I would *hate* to see Filemaker take over WebObjects development. Are you insane? (1) WebObjects is, at its heart, the OpenStep development environment, it needs to stay internal to Apple; (2) FileMaker is doing little other than revving FileMaker. It was probably as mistake to give them HomePage -- want to see WebObjects end of lifed in a couple of years? (3) WebObjects is hardly a complementary product to FileMaker. It's the closest thing Apple has to an enterprise development tool.

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Home Sweet HomePage

I wholeheartedly endorse good old Claris HomePage. I have a well-trafficked site (15K page views per month) that has always been produced using this easy to use, no-frills software. The only thing the html purists can point out that it fails on are the bloated headers and the endless font tags. But look at the code of anyone using GoLive or Dreamweaver and you'll appreciate the difference.
This is another one of those no-brainers. Those other tools will try and fail to keep up with new WWW standards, but HomePage does a kind of Microsoft Word version 5 job of remaining relevant, in spite of over-inflated pretenders.
Hopefully someone at FileMaker who has a clue will read this.
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Home Page 3.0

Distribution of Home Page has been small and declining for some
time, as inexpensive and even free web-page creation alternatives
have multiplied.

Of course it has declined. They didn't upgrade it nor would they even sell it to my company, who wanted a license per FM license.

Unfortunately, the demand for Home Page does not warrant the
large investment needed to revise it.

I am a FM Developer. I didn't see a questionaire on the need of Home Page. Are they going by sales only? They promised to listen to us developers at the 2000 conference, apparently that didn't include Home Page.

Home Page does not fit with FileMaker's focus on creating market-
leading workgroup database tools. And the role Home Page once
played in creating websites which serve dynamic data from
FileMaker databases has been surpassed by more powerful
solutions....

Of course the product got surpassed, they didn't even update Home Page to include the new FileMaker 5.0 CDML tags.

FileMaker is committed to providing straightforward ways of
publishing FileMaker Pro content to the Web. FileMaker plans to
make it easy for customers to export FileMaker content in a
format so it can be edited by leading web-authoring tools. So it
will be even easier to serve dynamic FileMaker data on web pages and websites built with leading web-authoring tools.

This is read as, "It will be now more expensive to create FileMaker Web Content". They are trying to push XML, but the browsers don't all support XML.

They are removing the ease of putting databases on the web that they introduced in FM 4.1.

In my opinion, it is a bad decision to discontinue this product. They should give it back to Apple and let them update the editor, so that us CDML database creators can continue to power the internet. (well maybe not power :) )

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It sucks

It sucks....let them focus on FileMake and forget about it! Get over it find a real HTML editor.

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Home Page rules

I've been using Home Page since version 1.0. For the entire history of Low End Mac (since April 7, 1997), it's the only program I've used to design the site. I've learned how to do Server Side Includes, link external Cascading Style Sheets, and a whole lot more in that time. Home Page has never let me down. It's fast, efficient, and powerful enough. Sure, site management would be nice. Sure, global search and replace is horrendous on a large site (somewhere over 4,000 files). But it works well -- and will continue to work for years to come. It's too bad it's being discontinued; it's a truly exception WYSI(sorta)WYG Web editor.

Dan Knight, publisher, Low End Mac

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Oldie, but a Goodie

I've used Claris Homepage off and on for years now, and even though it is dated and new versions of other apps come out I still used Homepage for two important reasons: It has a totally easy to use interface. No toolbar of endless little icons or shortcuts. And it gets the job done html-wise.

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Lack of Vision

Since their transformation from Claris to FileMaker, Inc., FMI has continuously refused to recognize the importance of Home Page as a valuable component of the FMPro toolset. I've lost track of the meetings I have attended where, despite protests from developers, FMI management has repeatedly stated that there would be no forthcoming changes to Home Page.

Although I use DreamWeaver and GoLive for web development, I have always used Home Page to knock out quick and dirty baseline pages when serving data from FMP databases. Nothing is as easy, or fast, for doing this. Lasso Studio for DreamWeaver and GoLive is horrible in performance and a huge resource hog.

I think this formal announcement is centered around FMI's adamant stance that XML is the way to go... and right now... and their abandonment/discouragement of CDML. This, despite the lack of standardized support for XML in browsers and development tools. They should have added XML support to Home Page, rev'd the CDML support and kept Home Page as a part of the FMPro toolset. Obviously, they see things differently.

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Noooo

Nooo, I love Home Page. I have been using it for my state office site for 2.5 years. Great intergration with FMPro. Not a lot of BS and extra code. Not much on special effects; Java, Javascript, Style Sheets, but these features are often over used by Web Developers, Who needs to wait minutes to see the company logo flying around the page? I still have version 3.0 and will continue to use it for years.

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Integrate with AppleWorks

How about turning the stuff back to Apple and making it part of the AppleWorks suite? The products have similar roots anyhow.

Why I like CHP: It looks easy to use. It's easy to use. It gets the job done.

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Sucking up to Someone

FileMaker is killing HomePage on purpose. Someone else needs the market share, i think. If they'd wanted to keep it current, they would have done so long ago; i bet Adobe has something to do with this, or maybe M$, ugh. Sleeping with the enemy...

Claris HomePage was the easiest way to make clean HTML. FileMaker, you suck.

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Homepage

Well, it was a good run I suppose. But doesn't this seem reminiscent of Claris Emailer...good program, great features...NO BACKING from the company which gave birth to it...they let it die, and they are doing the same to Homepage. I created my first webpages on Homepage, I loved its simplicity and elegant interface....anyway...bye HOMEPAGE.

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Good Riddance

wholeheartedly endorse good old Claris HomePage. I have a well-trafficked site (15K page views per month) that has always been produced using this easy to use, no-frills software. The only thing the html purists can point out that it fails on are the bloated headers and the endless font tags.

I used to use it, and endorse it, but grew tired of it mangling my code. Make sure to check the box......

But look at the code of anyone using GoLive or Dreamweaver and you'll appreciate the difference. This is another one of those no-brainers. Those other tools will try and fail to keep up with new WWW standards, but HomePage does a kind of Microsoft Word version 5 job of remaining relevant, in spite of over-inflated pretenders.Hopefully someone at FileMaker who has a clue will read this.

I use DreamWeaver, and own GoLive. Either of these tools runs circles around HomePage in pretty much any catagory you care to pick. Dreamweaver, for the most part, will leave your handwritten code alone. It will not mangle your javascript. It makes it easy to do things like roll-overs. I can teach novice users how to use it to create a decent web page in about 2 1/2 hours.

There is certainly a market for a entry-level, simple to use, visual HTML editor. I liked HomePage, but long-standing problems, and the cheap edu price of Dreamweaver, made it a "no-brainer" for us, when we decided to quit teaching HomePage short courses here at our university.

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This really stinks

Claris Home Page provided, and still does provide, entry level web designers and wonderful tool. And not to mention the many experienced web designers that still relish its simpicity and efficiency. I for one, LOVE the filemaker integration. I could never publish dbs on the web without it. I'm keeping my copy for a long time! Such a shame, you'd think they'd listen to their customers...

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Only one use

In my 6+ years of web development, I've used every tool out there...starting with BBEdit, GoLive (from v1 on), Dreamweaver (from v1 on), and HomePage. While each has its strengths and weaknesses, there has been a true evolution with all of the products except HomePage. It got to the point that HomePage had one use and one use only...to generate CDML tags for FMPro use. Beyond that, it was pretty much useless. Then as FMPro was "upgraded", HomePage couldn't even work for that. I mourn it not...

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So TELL THEM

If you all love it as i also do, send them an e-mail. It can only help. Show your point and stress how good you think the software really is. Nothing bad can come out of it. Start something.

Just my 2�.

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It's not just FMP, Inc

Look at the WYSIWYG HTML editor market. It has boiled down to high-end programs, like GoLive and (my personal fave) Dreamweaver (DW writes beautiful code, generally). The program that Home Page competed against was Adobe PageMill. Guess what? PageMill has been dead for a while! While I'm not saying that there's no room for midrange WYSIWYG HTML editors, the market for them is clearly small enough to not warrant attention from any big company.

I suggest you try DreamWeaver, it's the closest you can get to Home Page from today's selection.

As for OS X's HTML editor, it's nice, but can't hold a candle to Home Page, or any of the professional apps.

I do think that they should release Home Page as open-source or as a free app (with maintenance updates to squish bugs).

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iMac/HomePage

Hey, with the Internet ready Mac, iMovie, iMac and all the other "i" stuff like that, one would think that someone (at Apple) would liket to bundle an easy to use HTML Editor, Not.
My 12 year old son uses HomePage for his Webpages, so does my accountant, as well as the daughter of one of my clients.
It's just the right tool for someone without HTML experience/skills. And it does a pretty decent job. Even I, who preffer to do my webpages in BBEdit, use it to, build my tables.

I'd say: Bundle it with iMacs, to bring the internet to the iMac, for real!

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Where Can I Get It?

Before FileMaker stops distributing it, where can I get a copy of HomePage?

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A one app company..

FileMaker is a one app company. As far as I can tell they really never did anything to Home Page. Didn't they get and discontinue Emailer too? Want a product discontinued? Sell it to FileMaker or Corel.

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OF COURSE INTEREST HAS DW

Once upon a time I used Claris HomePage 2.0 and loved it to death. I also stumbled across Emailer 2.0v3, which I used for years and years, before finally moving on. Both of these were great products in their day, kicking the a** of any of the low-end consumer competition.

However, the Internet has moved on. If FileMaker had updated them and we had CHP 5 and Emailer 4 then I'm pretty sure there would be a demand for them now.

You can't expect people to still be interested in buying a 3-5 year old product. Due to the fast paced movement of the computer industry and the Internet, I'd probably say this is akin to coninuing to sell a 50 year old black-and-white wooden-cased TV set and expecting people to be ordering hundreds of them from nowhere (I haven't seen either Claris product advertised in years).

FileMaker hasn't even allowed apps like PowerMail or Outlook Express access to detailed file format specs for the mail database, or the code used to open them. What they stand to lose by releasing this code I fail to see, but if they did then it would make life a lot easier for people like me who had a 20,000-ish message database that had to be imported by APPLEEVENTS FOR GOD'S SAKES. It took me overnight on my iMac 333 to convert my database. That's a pain.

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It's still good

I teach web design and use Home Page in my classes. It doesn't have all the latest features but for people who want to creat simple web pages it is fine.

I would like someone to create a new version - adding some updated features including CSS and support for new types of JPEG files (currently Home Page will not display them). Also I would like to see the padding of the HTML code with spaces be removed. This can double the size of the HTML files esp. if you are using tables.

In contrast, the Windows version of Home Pages sucks big time. I am sure someone was getting back at all those bad ports of Windows programs to the Mac.

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Re: Sucking Up To Someone

Hey I don't know where you guys have been but the writing has been on the wall regarding this announcement for 2 years!

Like since Apple shipped the 333 iMacs with Pagemill 2.0 in 1999

I mourn this final nail in the coffin.

Like others I have been a fanatic user of this product since ver 1.0. For casual developers there simply is no competing product. When I say casual, I mean your aunt Martha, the teachers in your school who want to put up classroom pages or your formerly ludite boss. These folks will never find Golive or Dreamweaver accessable.

I have used every web design product out there. I always come back to HomePage. Like the Mac Interface itself, it's just simply a matter of how much I get done!

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That's the market!

Hey get over it!

HomePage was the last of the sub $100 HTML products. There is just no $$$ to be made I guess! The only one left is Front Page and people hate it so MS often gives it away.

Too bad...

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Alternatives to HomePage

It's true the mid-level (in both features and price) market for Mac HTML editors is pretty much dead. Companies seem to have decided that if you have a Mac you either need something w/ GoLive or Dreamweaver's features, or you're not interested in making a site at all. Maybe they're right, but there certainly are a number of software solutions for Windoze users available, so I'm a little skeptical.

Many ISPs that provide free (and tiny) site-hosting now allow you to use their template-based software - on their servers - to design your site (Earthlink certainly does this), but then you don't have a copy of your site available to edit offline, which is awkward for many of us.

I have run across two solutions that might fit the bill, though, for anyone that's interested: one's (practically) free, and one's available for anywhere from $50 - $250

HTMLEdit
As someone previously mentioned, the HTML editor bundled w/ OS X beta is a nice, simple, intuitive editor, very much like HomePage but with OS X - style photorealistic (read: fuzzy and hard to read) icons. For people who were just setting up a small personal site w/o a lot of site management, this will fit the bill perfectly, for just the soon-to-be-announced cost of an upgrade. Well, plus the cost of a new computer, if you're running a pre-G3.

Freeway (http://www.softpress.com)
If you've used Quark Xpress, this is an ideal solution - it's a WYSIWYG editor that uses Quark's interface. Like GoLive, it's definitely designed for people who never want to look at the underlying code, though. But it's very easy to use, and the manual is fabulous (for a software manual - you know what I mean). A "lite" version is available in bundled w/ clip-art graphics, a manual, and a PDF of Lynda Weinman's in MacMillan's "Web Page Construction Kit" ($45 @ Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/software/B000051ZYX/o/qid=978564205/sr=8-4/ref=aps_sr_s_2_1/102-3071484-0163335 ); this is a great starter kit for html novices. The full version is $250, but SoftPress offers a crossgrade for PageMill and HomePage users: $100 for v. 3.0 (the current version) and $50 for v. 2.0, w/ an option to upgrade later for another $50. I really think this is an unjustly overlooked program, and very much worth downloading the 30 day trial version.

I'm not trying to shill for either of these companies - I wish HTMLedit had site management capabilities (maybe it does, I only played around w/ it a little), and it might well by the time the non-beta version of OS X is released, and I'm unhappy being unable to muck around in Freeway's HTML code, but I think both these packages serve a market that's been totally abandoned by everyone else.

Now playing around w/ GoLive 5*,
Evan Evanson

*which, in an apparently extremely uncharacteristic move, doesn't seem to crash on me.

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D'oh! (apologies)

Argh! Wasn't thinking - didn't realize the mondo Amazon URL would stretch the page out beyond the borders of any reasonably-sized browser. Sorry, and I promise never to do it again.

Into the cornfield with me,
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I img CHP

Claris Home Page is my choice of HTML editors when I want to do something simply and quickly to a page or a site, which is often. It is my sole choice for interaction with FM Pro 4.x.

Give it away, sell it to another company, whatever: just keep it going!

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Farewell CHP

I can only add my praises to what has already been said. I used CHP since 2.0 on both Mac and Windoze.
It will be missed.

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make it freeware!

and hand us the license keys - sheesh - the worst trial protection in the history of SW - just trash the prefs file every 30 days...

Or just let MS copy it and give away the continuingly developed version (oh - sorry - that was eMailer which became Outlook Express...)

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Homepage

Filemaker Homepage was the only WYSIWYG editor I have ever used that I could count on to be 100% compliant every time. No extra trash tags, no javascript, no CSS, nothing but pure HTML 2.0. FIlemaker also ignored extra tags if you decided to put some in. It was, and still is, by far the best WYSIWYG design tool available if you are looking for clean coding.

I have built and maintained some very large E-Commerce websites doing my base code and design with Filemaker and will continue to do so.

Just make it freeware.

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Unbelievable

I have taught K-12 teachers (who use both Macintosh and Windows versions) how to create HTML pages with Home Page for the past five years. There is no easier program to use and my students have created some very sophisticated pages as part of their final project, which is a thematic unit.

The program is also a standard at our college and serves the needs of most users. (Dreamweaver is used for more sophisticated site management.) I don't buy the argument that online editors are a more popular solution. There is much value to creating Web content locally. Even though Home Page has not been updated, it still is far superior to Word processors that export content as HTML.

There HAS to be a way to turn the program over to a publisher who cares. I am stunned at some of the recent management decisions that that folks at FileMaker have made.

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Oh Yeah....

I too started with version 1.0, and presently use 2.0 because 3.0 was buggy with the link/paths. Still use it for my personal page, although I've slowly switched to GoLive. Home Page was uncluttered by all the palets that are the rave now in just about any app - can you say MS Office 2001? I didn't even know they still sold Home Page. I had been cruising ebay looking for version 3.0 in hopes they had updated it. Can't even find it there. Far as I know Filemaker never did anything with it once they took it from Claris.
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CHP in schools

Home Page is the ideal tool in schools as it is easy enough for primary students to use, but sophisticated enough for most tasks secondary students would wish to implement. It's also very affordable for mass usage in a school, in contrast to DreamWeaver. What other package are we now supposed to use?

While DreamWeaver would be a web editor's choice, I find that I can knock up a page or do those quick editing tasks far more efficiently in CHP.

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re:demise of home page

I still use home page, sporadically. By and large I've gone with Adobe Golive (which happened because Adobe abandoned Pagemill - sound familiar?) I don't know - the most compelling reason to use it for me was the integration/support of CDML. However, in my experience trying to develop custom web based interfaces of my filemaker DB, I couldn't get any of them to work properly. CDML, XML, Lasso - whatever. None of them would do the very simple things I wanted them to do and XML was particularly bad. Plus, the "in the box" prepackaged "instant web" pages that filemaker has are more suited for internal use rather than opening up a db to the public. In my experience - there wasn't nearly enough flexibility in these "instant web" published pages to satisfy my needs vis-a-vis filemaker.
I still use and like filemaker for the things I use it for but am looking elsewhere to go online with my DB's.
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Claris HomePage

Alas, HomePage will go the way of HyperCard, except I don't really expect loyal developers to continue to use Hypercard, because HomePage provides no architecture for enhancements the way HyperCard does. The again, the HTML is still compatible with today's browsers, so it will probably just be phased out.

It's really a shame, though. For my website , I design relatively simple web pages (that way, it's compatible with older browsers and will load quickly),and alternate between Claris Homepage, Netscape Composer and SimpleText. I wouldn't even need to use the other two if Homepage had a few other minor features/updates.

I agree with the poster who stated Apple should bundle/integrate it with AppleWorks. That would be great. If not, Filemaker should sell the product- or, as other posters have stated- release it as freeware.

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Claris Homepage

Oh, my Web Site is at , BTW.

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Still the One!

I have tried to use & like several other HTML editors, but I always come back to Claris Home Page 3 to get something done. It's that much easier and straight forward. I can teach someone the basics of CHP html creation from scratch in less than 20 minutes. The other html editors are way to bloated and hard to learn. And, even though CHP is old, and unloved by it's captors, there are thousands of us out here that DO love it, and will continue to give it a good, productive home.
(and I still love the raw power of Claris eMailer, as nothing else comes close, nor can check my aol mail with the same one click as it checks my 8 other pop mailboxes). Claris made some really great software.
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Claris HomePage

That was: http://GabrielMorales.net/

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CHP 3.0, AOL Mobile Comm

Yes, I too still use CHP v3.0 to develop *all* our web pages. I use an ISP and upload to the site about three times a day with just a few clicks. I also agree with the Claris Emailer positive comments listed here. My 12 year old AOL username is managed with the latest iMac and Emailer V1.03! I must admit, AOL has a new device that I now use and it is wireless!. It is called AOL Mobile CommunicatorFor my formal review, see http://www.artandtype.com/aolmc/

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The Best

Was definately a favorite of mine. Built a some parts of MacVillage.net with it (though had to do most coding by hand as it uses PHP and PERL).

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FrontPage competition

Microsoft's alredy got FrontPage, so to have CHP in competition is redunant. I suppose this means FileMaker will announce FMP will become part of Microsoft Office at MWSF.

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It's too bad a simple product like HomePage has to get the axe. Sure it isn't the end-all be-all product that other HTML editors are today. But it's far simpler than those other products.

Rather than kill it totally, it should be a available under a link called "free but unsupported". From FileMaker's view for killing it (revenue) they'd make exactly the same amount of money but in this case they can keep their "name" out there for almost nothing.

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FileMaker to discontinue HomePage

updated 08:32 pm EST, Tue January 2, 2001

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