Box of Backstage Desktop Studio 1.0
Backstage was a line of website development tools created by iBand and later acquired by Macromedia.[1] Its major competitors at the time were Adobe PageMill and SiteMill, and Vermeer Frontpage.[2][3]
Product history[]
Screenshot of Backstage Designer
In December 1995, iBand first announced Backstage for Windows 3.1, 95 and NT.[2] Beta testing for Windows 95 and NT began in March 1996.[4]
Macromedia acquired iBand and the Backstage product line on March 13, 1996.[5] Version 1.0 of Macromedia Backstage Desktop Studio and Enterprise Studio were released as part of a trial beta program in April 1996 and shipped on April 29 and July 1, respectively.[6][7][8][9]
Box of Backstage Internet Studio 2
Macromedia began beta testing Backstage Internet Studio 2 in December 1996.[10] It was released in the first quarter of 1997 in Desktop and Enterprise editions.[11]
Legacy[]
The codebase of Backstage later became the foundation of Macromedia Dreamweaver.[3] In December 2005, Macromedia itself was acquired by Adobe Systems.[12] Adobe then rebranded the program as Adobe Dreamweaver, which replaced their own GoLive HTML editor.[3]
References[]
- ↑ Macromedia in Deal To Acquire Iband by Reuters, The New York Times. 1996-03-15.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Web vendors introduce development advances by Nick Wingfield, InfoWorld. 1995-12-11.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Why Adobe Doesn’t Understand Web Designers by Joshua Johnson, Design Shack. 2011-08-08.
- ↑ Macromedia to pay $32M shares for web software firm iBand, Computer Business Review. 1996-03-19.
- ↑ Macromedia goes Backstage, CNET. 1996-03-13.
- ↑ Backstage magic conjures sophisticated Web sites by Mike Heck, InfoWorld. 1996-04-15.
- ↑ Macromedia launches Backstage web development line, Computer Business Review. 1996-06-27.
- ↑ Macromedia Ships Backstage Products, Powerful Tools for Building Dynamic Web Sites, Macromedia. 1996-04-29. Archived 1999-09-10.
- ↑ Macromedia Ships Backstage Enterprise Studio, Powerful Tools for Building Database-Driven Web Sites, Macromedia. 1996-07-01. Archived 1999-08-19.
- ↑ Macromedia constructs new Backstage by Carol Silwa at Network World. 1996-12-09.
- ↑ Desktop apps get more Web tools by Pardhu Vadlamudi at Info World. 1996-12-16.
- ↑ Adobe Completes Acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe Systems. 2005-12-05. Archived 2005-12-07.
External links[]
- Backstage Internet Studio at Macromedia (archived 1997-03-29)
- Creating Web Sites with Macromedia's Backstage Desktop Studio by Dennis Hamilton, Web Publishing: Professional Reference Edition, ch.13. (1997)
- Macromedia Backstage at the Macromedia Wiki
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