Homestead SiteBuilder

Revision as of 23:00, 2 June 2022

Homestead SiteBuilder 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.

.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