CoffeeCup HTML Editor 2008

Publisher's description of CoffeeCup HTML Editor

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CoffeeCup HTML Editor is two editors in one. If you know HTML or want to learn more, use the code editor that has set the standard since 1996. To make pages fast or without knowing HTML, use the drag-and-drop WYSIWYG Visual Editor. You also can go back and forth between the Code and Visual Editors to create remarkable Web sites in a snap. CoffeeCup comes with more than 100 DHTML and JavaScripts, a DHTML Menu wizard, 25,000 graphics and photos including more than 1,000 XP Style Icons, and access to more than 500 free Web-site templates. It also has built-in FTP Uploading and Table, Frame, Font, and Form Designers. Preview your work in any browser or use the exclusive Split Screen preview. Its other features include a Project Manager, a Flash Text Wizard, a HTML Code Cleaner, a Color Scrollbar Wizard, a StyleSheet Editor, and a List Wizard.

Version 2008 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

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Editor's review of CoffeeCup HTML Editor

Suitable for both Web-design newbies and HTML hotshots, CoffeeCup 2008 introduces a new CSS and HTML autocompletion tool to join its well-known WYSIWYG and standard HTML editors.

It continues to offer powerful features melded to a straightforward and compact interface that is organized by tabs--perfect for keeping track of multiple projects. Its advanced features include HTML and CSS scripting, Flash animations, and drag-and-drop Java scripts. Beginners, meanwhile, get an excellent tutorial and a WYSIWYG editor that supports simple drag-and-drop. Heavily trafficked support forums are also available. An extensive array of samples and templates includes site designs and JavaScript-based widgets such as calendars and calculators.

You also get a complete list of tags. Inserting an image, a table, a list, or a DHTML menu is a snap. Tabbed editing lets you simultaneously change multiple pages, and a built-in FTP client facilitates one-click uploading. The status bar displays valid usage suggestions, and you even get a built-in thesaurus. Full-featured and easy to use, users who are worried about the $50 price tag should be comforted by the fact that it includes lifetime free upgrades.

User reviews of CoffeeCup HTML Editor

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  CoffeeCup HTML Editor

  Excellent Beginner's & Intermediate HTML Editor

  by: Angry Write Mail on 23-Apr-2008 05:20:06 PM

  Pros: A friend recommended Coffee Cup HTML Editor, when I wanted to learn how to design and maintain my own business website. This was 2002. I still rely on Coffee Cup to this day. It's a very intuitive program, and happily, a very stable one at that (when you work with a lot of graphics, you tend to appreciate these things).

  Here's a quick tip: There are other HTML editors and webpage makers on the market that are cheaper - or even Free. But, many of you will wind up wishing you'd purchased Coffee Cup. It's more user-friendly than other editors I've test-driven; and I don't recommend any other editor for the newbee who's never done this before.

  Want to see it in action? Visit my website. It's designed 100% by Coffee Cup HTML Editor.

  ~Dave

  American Family Photo.com

  Cons: Some of the special effects can have a tendency to be temperamental. Not really a big deal in the overall scheme of what this HTML editor can do for you.

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  Poor to the point of being a waste of time

  by: on 29-May-2008 11:07:11 AM

  Pros: Makes learning some aspects of HTML easy.

  It has a nice look and feel.

  Cons: Given the obvious things that I like about this application, makes the poorly thought out implementation of the functionality feel like some sort of evil trick.

  The hideous behavior of this application makes me believe that most people who reviewed this just looked at the screens and actually did no work with the tool.

  If you have the zen-like capability to enter a GUI design absolutely correctly on the first try - without the need to alter anything afterwards - this editor might work for you. If you need to make a change WATCH-OUT!

  I found the application to be psychotic with regard to file management - not even being able to negotiate between the visual editor and the text editor screens without annoying me with a request to save my work...

  It renders lists (ordered and unordered) horribly. It's HTML validation is poor. I can't figure out how to alter a link without deleting and recreating the text that the link is bound.

  The scripts that are included are amaturistic - full of sloppiness and redundancy.

  This application is not ready for primetime and should be avoided - you're probably better off with a well established editor like eclipse.

  Additionally, the "free" version only includes the capability of test editing - If you want to use the visual editor tab, you'll have to download an evaluation version of the full application from the vendor.

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  CoffeeCup HTML Editor

  A lot of automated tags and that's about it

  by: D2008 on 09-May-2008 09:58:24 AM

  Pros: Price

  Cons: Advertised as dual view , Code and Visual Editor (WYSIWYG)... these two views only available on the most basic of sites... won't work with frames. Nothing special about this program at all except that it crashed to the desktop whenever opened for more than 10 minutes or so. Needed to reboot to get it open. Company does not guarantee it's products either. Buyer beware.

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  CoffeeCup HTML Editor

  This is a much needed program HTML newbies. Makes tagging too easy.

  by: chaos_spirit on 19-Apr-2008 09:22:02 AM

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