PageMill is a
WYSIWYG
In computing, WYSIWYG ( ), an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, is a system in which editing software allows content to be edited in a form that resembles its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product, such as a printed d ...
HTML editor
An HTML editor is a program for editing HTML, the markup of a web page. Although the HTML markup in a web page can be controlled with any text editor, specialized HTML editors can offer convenience and added functionality. For example, many HT ...
developed by
Adobe Systems in 1994. After PageMill 3.0, it was discontinued in favor of
GoLive.
History
Ceneca Communications Inc. developed the original PageMill and SiteMill products. During open beta testing, Adobe acquired the company and rebranded the product with their own logo. Adobe released PageMill 1.0 in late 1995.
[ Adobe began shipping PageMill for the Macintosh priced at $99.] It was considered revolutionary at the time, as it was the first HTML editor that was considered user-friendly, cited as the "
PageMaker
Adobe PageMaker (formerly Aldus) is a discontinued desktop publishing computer program introduced in 1985 by the Aldus Corporation on the Apple Macintosh. The combination of the Macintosh's graphical user interface, PageMaker publishing software, ...
of the WWW".
This first version, however, was also criticized for lacking items such as a spell-checker and support for creating HTML tables.
Adobe acquired Ceneca in October 1995 for US$15 million.
Adobe PageMill 2.0, which was introduced in early 1997, corrected these issues with a package that, according to one review, "adds more features than I have fingers and toes… PageMill with its tables, frames, graphics, and support for form interfaces, makes it easy to lay out a page".
PageMill 2.0 was also the first version for
Microsoft Windows.
Adobe PageMill 3.0, released in early 1999, supported embedded font commands and a site-management feature. It was discontinued in February 2000, due to the acquisition and promotion of
Adobe GoLive. A later patch, still available from Adobe, fixed a problem with
FTP
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upload.
PageMill was often bundled with other products such as
scanners
''Scanners'' is a 1981 Canadian science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan. In the film, "scanners" are psychics with unusual telepathi ...
or promotional CD-ROMs, rather than sold as a stand-alone product.
See also
*
List of HTML editors
The following is a list of HTML editors.
Source code editors
Source code editors evolved from basic text editors, but include additional tools specifically geared toward handling code.
*ActiveState Komodo
*Aptana
* Arachnophilia
*Atom
*BBEdit ...
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History of the Internet
The history of the Internet has its origin in information theory and the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks. The Internet Protocol Suite, the set of rules used to communicate between networks and de ...
References
External links
Adobe PageMill About.com
Writing and Editing Your Web Pages Fermilab National Laboratory LInC Online
Internet archive software library including Pagemill 2 & 3 for mac and windowsOriginal product brochures for Ceneca's and Adobe's PageMill / Sitemill products.
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