Features

Store commands based on user keystrokes, mouse clicks, tool button and menu option selections, and save and play back or just play back the series of commands. Use macros to save you time and effort when performing the same action multiple times.

Visually define tags, tag attributes and attribute values. Just select a tag and a dialog box will ask you to specify its attribute values. The Tag Editor works for HTML, XHTML, WML and SMIL tags.

Select from a list of available tags provided by Tag Insight in response to your typing. Then select the tag's attributes from a similar prompt. Get a closing tag automatically from Tag Completion when you type or select an opening tag. Tag Insight and Tag Completion work for HTML, XHTML, WML and SMIL tags.

Combine the Tag Inspector tab's two integrated tools—Tag Tree and the Tag Inspector—to edit a tag’s code without working directly in the document. Tag Inspector works for HTML, XHTML, WML and SMIL tags.

XHTML Support, based on the W3C specifications for XHTML 1.0, allows developers to build pages that comply with the latest web technologies. The extensibility of XHTML gives them the flexibility to incorporate new ideas for Web communication and presentation as they emerge.

Save time by creating and saving reusable blocks of code. Easily drag and drop Snippets from the Snippets tab into the Editor for quick reuse of code. Even integrate, view, insert and modify snippets from Dreamweaver MX, MX 2004, and 8.

Save development time by creating and saving reusable blocks of code. Drag and drop Code Snippets from the Snippets tab into the Editor for quick reuse of code.

Quickly create basic pages, tables, frames and JavaScript and DHTML elements. You specify the parameters and HomeSite will generate the needed code.

Easily create, edit, and preview cascading style sheets using the integrated TopStyle CSS Editor.

The new Secondary Files tab allows developers to browse local and remote files simultaneously and to easily drag and drop files between the two Files tabs, giving them greater confidence and efficiency in accessing and incorporating documents and images.

Manage complex Web applications using physical, virtual and auto-inclusive folders. Integrate with leading source control software such as PVCS and SourceSafe. Deploy folders to the server using the built-in FTP engine made by Ipswitch. FTP now supports 40-bit encryption using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

Search all open documents or all documents in a folder, or search for extended characters and double spacing, by configuring Find & Replace. Back up files before making replacements at the folder or project level by using the Extended Replace dialog box

Verify tag syntax for HTML, XHTML, CFML, JSP and SMIL with the Multi-Language Validator, which is configurable for different language versions.

Format your code to standards with Code Sweeper and HTML Tidy. Define your own formatting rules with Code Sweeper.