Homestead SiteBuilder

Revision as of 22:26, 4 June 2022

Homestead SiteBuilder, known as Intuit SiteBuilder by Homestead from 2010 to 2014, is a WYSIWYG website creation tool from Homestead. Using a built-in set of components, it enables the drag-and-drop creation of a web page.

File formats

.hc

.hc is a binary file format used to capture the configuration and layout of a webpage. It was replaced with .xpf circa May 2006.

Other than the first 4 bytes (FF FF FF FF), the entire file consists only of bytes from 30 (0) to 6F (o) and so can generally be presented as ASCII.

.xpf

.xpf is an XML-based file format used to capture the configuration and layout of a webpage.

The top-level element is Page. The second level contains 3 elements: Element with @type of "Page", Version, and HeadTag.

Possible values of Element's @type include:

• AccentGraphics
• Border
• ChatRoom
• ClipartHeaders
• Divider
• ElementNotAvailable
• EmailMe
• FB_Like
• Form
• Forms_MultiLineText
• Forms_OneLineText
• Forms_RadioButton
• Forms_ResetButton
• Forms_SubmitButton
• Guestbook
• HTMLSnippet
• HitCounter
• ImportedImage
• ImportedSound
• LastUpdated
• Multimedia
• Navigation
• Page
• Paragraph
• PhotoAlbum
• PhotoGallery
• PhotoGalleryImage
• Photodisk
• RadioOption
• Rectangle
• Rollover
• SocialNetworking
• StandardButton
• Star
• TellAFriend
• Text
• Triangle
• USWeather

Other elements include:

• Current
• Form
• Initial
• Page
• Paragraph
• PhotoGalleryImage
• RadioOption
• Segment