What Exactly IS CoffeeCup Software?
March 5th, 2009 lvs Posted in In The Spotlight | No Comments »
Did you know that the name comes from the company’s origins as an Internet café?
Did you know that CoffeeCup Software is an American Website software development company now based in Atlanta, Georgia?
CoffeeCup Software was started in a coffeehouse called The Raven & The Sparrow in the mid-1990s in Corpus Christi, Texas. It was the only location in town that offered free Internet access to the public at that time.et access to the public at that time.
The Website for the coffeehouse was www.coffeecup.com. Soon, requests started pouring in from other business owners who wanted help designing their own sites. These sites were originally designed using Notepad, but as you can imagine, this got a bit tedious after awhile. A regular customer who was a programmer offered to help improve the process, and soon the first version of the HTML Editor was born.
Since the coffeehouse already had the www.coffeecup.com domain name, the fledgling software company was named CoffeeCup Software, and the first program was named CoffeeCup HTML Editor. Eventually, CoffeeCup began charging $20 for the program, and in 1996, they decided to put away the espresso machines and devote full-time attention to developing software.
Below is the list of CoffeeCup Software – you may be using some of these products now, or have heard of them.
All of the CoffeeCup Software is available as a free download so you can play with the programs before you buy them if you choose!
And, as an added bonus, CoffeeCup offers a core group of programs free to schools. CoffeeCup Software’s K–12 Donation Program allows public schools to request the Educational Software Package (ESP) Free for classroom use to elementary and secondary public schools, and public libraries.
CoffeeCup Software has won many awards, including the Shareware Industry Award six years running from 1999 to 2004 for the CoffeeCup HTML Editor.
Donna Sellinger is the CoffeCup Software instructor at LVS Online Classes. Donna started using the HTML Editor back when CoffeeCup was just starting out (and so was she). Donna says,
“We kind of grew up together. Back then, this was their only product. And, even now, it’s still the flagship of their line. The best part of getting any (or all) of their software, is that whatever you purchase allows you to get free upgrades – FOR LIFE! Try getting that from any other company. There are only one or two others that I’ve ever dealt with that do that. This one is the largest!
Since then, they’ve branched out and made remarkable improvements to this software and added a whole bunch of other software to compliment the editor and make designing websites a whole lot easier.
Below is the syllabus for Donna’s new CoffeCup Software online class:
| Lesson 1 HTML Editor 2008
Lesson 2 Lesson 3 |
Lesson 4 Stylesheet Maker Flash Password Wizard Lesson 5 Lesson 6 |
Whether you’re new to web design or have been designing for awhile, there’s something in the CoffeeCup Software line of products that you’ll love and use all the time. Now’s as good a time as any to start learning about it. Tell all your friends and meet in the class to learn together and have a lot of fun!
Visit Donna’s CoffeCup Software class blog for regular updates!
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