Claris Home Page

Claris Home Page

Stable release	3.0 / January 1998
Operating system	Mac OS, Windows
Type	WYSIWYG HTML editor

Claris Home Page was one of the earliest true what-you-see-is-what-you-get HTML editors. Purchased from San Andreas Systems, the project was code-named Loma Prieta. Claris re-worked it to feature their corporate user interface and released it 1996.

Home Page supported all of the features common in HTML at the time, and was notable for its excellent table editor. Even new users could create reasonable looking pages and upload them to their web server with a minimum of effort. The program did not include any sort of template system however, nor a system for creating menus or rollovers. It also suffered from a number of bugs and display glitches, which Claris never fixed. Nevertheless, Home Page gained a reputation as one of the most user-friendly HTML editors at the time.

Version 2 was released in 1997. It improved on the table editor and included a clip art library of several thousand GIFs. In January 1998 the third and final revision of Home Page was released. This version contained templates and tools for building database-driven websites using FileMaker Pro 4.1 and Claris Dynamic Markup Language (CDML).

Within weeks of the final Home Page release, parent company Apple Computer reorganized Claris into FileMaker Inc. with Home Page and the FileMaker database as its only remaining products. Home Page was ultimately discontinued in 2001.