Activity 6: Advanced HTML editing software CoffeeCUP HTML
Editor 2007
and
CoffeeCup Visual Site Designer 5.6
Overview: CoffeCup HTML Editor 2007 was a free
trial of software from the web site CoffeeCup. I downloaded the free thirty-day trial
of their full
version of the HTML editor. The cost of the full version of this
software is $49 but you could also get different packages for $129 that include
other software that may or may not be useful to you. They also have a
free package for educators that
includes the full version of their Visual Site Designer 5.6, WEb Calander 5.6, RSS Newsflash 4.5, Flash Form Builder 6.0, and Photo Gallery 6.0. They also
have a list of free
software and I downloaded their free editor but found it
to be nothing but a stripped down version of their HTML editor without the best
features. A person with expereince writing HTML code would find this
editor sufficient to do basic editing, but it doesn't offer a mode where you can
see both the code and the page you are building at the same time. I ended up
experimenting with both the full
version of the HTML editor as well as their Visual Site Designer 5.6.
I choose CoffeeCup becuase I was looking for software
that I had no experience with, offered free tools for teachers, and could
possibly offer a tool that teachers with no HTML experience could use.
CoffeeCup HTML
Editor 2007
Review: CoffeeCup HTML Editor 2007 is a
basic HTML editor that has the features that you would expect out of an HTML
editor. It is a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)
editor which seems standard these days. Its real use seemed to be the ability
for it to be expanded by the purchase of other software that will allow you
to add flash, webcams, RSS feeds, photo galleries, live chats, blogs, rip and burn
mp3's, host live chats through the site, and other features. Many of these
extra tools could be useful and they offer technical support to registered customers.
Many of their packages that come with the HTML editor also
come with many of these add-on programs. They are priced in a reasonably for what
they claim the user will be able to do. There is more information
about CoffeeCup HTML Editor in my demonstration.
Demonstration of
CoffeeCup HTML Editor 2007
CoffeeCup
Visual Site Designer 5.6
Review: I also choose to review the CoffeeCup
Visual Site Designer because it was free to teachers. I found the software to be fairly user friendly,
but it was different than other HTML editors that I have used in the past.
This is also a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG ) except that you don't
see the code for the site that you are writing so
whatever you create is what you get. It does have
the ability to add code into sections of the site you are building if you have
that ability but it is not required at all. There is a more detailed review of
CoffeeCup Visual Site Designer 5.6 in my demonstration.
Demonstration of
CoffeeCup Visual Site Designer 5.6
HTML Editor
Reviews
Ron Folkens
7/31/07