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1 stars
Version: CoffeeCup HTML Editor 2008
"Don't waste your time with it."
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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You mentioned Dreamweaver twice, but anyone who's used that is in a *totally* different market than anyone who'd check out CoffeeCup. This CC looks like it's marketed to people who can/will only spend $40 and don't want to spent months or years learning how to edit web pages.
Your other comments sound much more appropriate. Though #1 just seems like an annoyance. You didn't say anything about how easy it is to build reasonable websites, which we would have found more helpful.
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