Nick Bradbury

**Nicholas J. Bradbury** (born May 11, 1967) is a British-American software developer who created the HomeSite HTML editing tool, which was acquired by Allaire, then Macromedia, and finally absorbed into Adobe Dreamweaver.

## Early life

Bradbury was born in England and relocated with his family to the United States at an early age. He became interested in computers when his father gave him a TRS-80 Color Computer, which he used to write the games *Moon Runner* and *Penguin Icarus*.

## Education

Bradbury enrolled in computer science at the University of Missouri–Rolla. However, he soon lost interest in computers and switched to the University of Tennessee–Knoxville in 1988. He became an award-winning cartoonist at the campus newspaper *The Daily Beacon* and received a B.S. in journalism in 1991.

## Career

After briefly working as an editorial cartoonist, Bradbury resumed working on his personal strip called *Dexter* and developed HomeSite in Visual Basic as a way to maintain the comic website. He later rewrote in Delphi for speed and released it in July 1996. After he notified some shareware sites about it, he discovered HomeSite had been downloaded over a thousand times during the first night. Microsoft made the first offer to acquire HomeSite, but Bradbury ended up taking a counter-offer from Allaire Corporation in March 1997 and continued working on HomeSite as a commercial product for 18 months. In March 2001, Allaire was acquired by Macromedia, which itself was acquired by Adobe Systems in December 2005.

After leaving Allaire, Bradbury founded Bradsoft and created TopStyle, a more sophisicated integrated development environment (IDE) for editing CSS, HTML, and XHTML. A "Lite" version of TopStyle 2.0 was licensed by Macromedia for inclusion with JRun Studio, which itself was based on HomeSite by Bradbury. The "Lite" version was also bundled with Macromedia HomeSite and Dreamweaver MX, which included an extension that allowed TopStyle to be used as a dedicated CSS editor. In December 2008, TopStyle was acquired by independent software developer Stefan van As.

Since June 2013, Bradbury has been a "mobile wrangler" for Automattic, the developers of WordPress.

## Personal life

Bradbury lost hearing in his left ear in 2005 due to the removal of a tumor that had been detected in the area. He took up yoga to help compensate for loss of balance. He presently resides in Knox County, Tennessee with his wife Melissa.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Born to Code, Part II by Nick Bradbury, TypePad. 2006-04-13.
2. ↑ HomeSite development ended, Adobe Systems. 2009-05-26.
3. ↑ And now for something completely different… by Nick Bradbury]. 2020-06-09.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Born to Code, Part I by Nick Bradbury, TypePad. 2006-04-12.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Dexter Cartoon for July 30, 2004 by Nick Bradbury, TypePad. 2004-06-30.
6. ↑ History of HomeSite, Allaire. Archived 2000-12-17.
7. ↑ Macromedia Completes Merger With Allaire, Macromedia. 2001-03-20. Archived 2001-03-30.
8. ↑ Adobe Completes Acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe Systems. 2005-12-05. Archived 2005-12-07.
9. ↑ Macromedia JRun Studio - Features, Macromedia. Archived 2001-11-15.
10. ↑ TopStyle Pro and TopStyle Lite by Nick Bradbury, TypePad. 2003-11-20.
11. ↑ ANN: TopStyle Acquired by Stefan van As by Nick Bradbury. 2008-12-09.
12. ↑ Sabbatical by Nick Bradbury. 2020-06-01.
13. ↑ Yoga by Nick Bradbury. 2020-07-14.

## External links

* Nick Bradbury homepage
* *Dexter on the Web* at Bradsoft (archived 2011-07-16)
* Nick Bradbury at LinkedIn
* Nick Bradbury at Twitter
* Nick Bradbury at TypePad
* Nick Bradbury at the Adobe Wiki
* Nick Bradbury at Wikipedia