Adobe PageMill 2.0

Adobe PageMill 2.0

Posted on April 23, 2025

Adobe PageMill was one of the first web design tools that made building websites feel doable for regular people—no coding degree required. Launched in 1995 by Ceneca Communications before Adobe bought it the same year, it gave users a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor—basically, you could drag, drop, and format pages like you were using a word processor. Version 2.0 came out in 1997 and finally added tables, frames, and basic JavaScript support—stuff that was huge for web design back then. By 1999, PageMill 3.0 dropped with tighter integration with other Adobe tools like Photoshop, but let’s be real—by then, Dreamweaver was starting to eat its lunch. Adobe officially killed it off in the early 2000s, but if you were messing with PageMill in the late ‘90s, you were probably one of the first people in your friend group to have a personal website—and that meant something.

Adobe PageMill 2.0