CoffeeCup HTML Editor 2008

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• 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

  5 stars

  Version: CoffeeCup HTML Editor 2008

  "Excellent Beginner's & Intermediate HTML Editor"

  by Angry Write Mail on April 23, 2008

  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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• 9 out of 12 people found this review helpful

  1 stars

  Version: CoffeeCup HTML Editor 2008

  "Poor to the point of being a waste of time"

  on May 29, 2008

  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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• 5 out of 7 people found this review helpful

  1 stars

  Version: CoffeeCup HTML Editor 2008

  "A lot of automated tags and that's about it"

  by D2008 on May 9, 2008

  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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• 2 out of 4 people found this review helpful

  1 stars

  Version: CoffeeCup HTML Editor 2008

  "software raves are surprising"

  by barb_01 on August 20, 2008

  Pros: it's for new site designers who dont really care if they have crumbs of advertising from the company all over their site.

  Cons: 1-it's for new site designers who dont really care if they have crumbs of advertising from the company all over their site.

  2-the support is awful. their answers for virtually all cases are: set a setting on *name your software* and it will be all better.

  3-Their support documentation is non existent - almost laughable when you get the read me files that there are two paragraphs that say something to the effect of what the software can't (wont) do - nothing more

  4-Phone support is shady: a recent call to 'help' received a response that i can change any file i want, but coffeecup wont advise on what should be changed to assist customers and gives you some lame answer like: 'sure change the header, that's all you need to do'. That is it. nothing more. When you ask what is supposed to be changed they circle around it but never truly help you. Ummm, sheh.

  5-if you want a boat load of crumbs advertising for coffeefup, trust me you're doing the right thing using their software.

  The software could be jettisoned in popularity if they'd step up and giver real support and documentation. makes me suspect there's something wrong in coffeecupland.

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• 2 out of 3 people found this review helpful

  1 stars

  Version: CoffeeCup HTML Editor 2008

  "Don't waste your time with it."

  by brashboy on August 19, 2008

  Pros: Not much - easy commands for bold, italic, etc.

  Cons: CC should check out Dreamweaver. Problems with CC:

  1) Have to save every time you switch from code to wysiwyg view. Open a doc and it opens to code view. To go to wysiwyg you have to - yep - save the document. They say this is to protect the document. Do some programming.

  2) Font selection dialog box is crude (basic Windows stuff), as are others. Selecting fonts and sizes is a real pain, and slow compared to DW.

  3) Font colors - a pain and very limited selection, again with the CS (doesn't stand for cascading style) Windows dialog box.

  If you've used DW, this one is clunky in many ways, although it has some simple features DW should copy. They've sold many millions of CC alone and this is the best they can do? They keep "improving" it when basic functionality concerns need to be addressed. I gave it one star for what it could and should be. I would like for someone to seriously challenge DW at a reasonable cost - this ain't it.

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