CoffeeCup Software

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CoffeeCup Software Incorporated
Type Private
Founded Flag of the United States Corpus Christi (1996)
Headquarters Corpus Christi, Texas, U.S.
Key people Hans Top, Director
Bob Visser, CFO
J. Cornelius, VP of Operations
Scott Swedorski, VP of Software development
Industry Software
Products See complete products listing.
Employees 20 (June 2007)

CoffeeCup Software is an American computer software development company based in Corpus Christi, Texas, United States founded in 1994. The name "CoffeeCup Software" comes from the company's origins in an internet cafe owned by its founder.

The company currently creates over 25 software applications for creating, designing, and editing Websites; and a number of online services for webmasters. Since its release in early 1996, the CoffeeCup HTML Editor... The company's third product, CoffeeCup Direct FTP, was the first FTP program to incorporate text editing functionality directly into the interface in a "split screen" fashion.

CoffeeCup employs just over a dozen programmers and designers and moved to new headquarters in the spring of 2007. In addition to a panel of user-advisers, CoffeeCup has a group of around 8000 “Ambassadors” who are invited to test drive new and existing software programs and report bugs and offer suggestions for improvements.

CoffeeCup's Software has won many awards, including the SIA (Shareware Industry Award) six years running from 1999 to 2004 for the CoffeeCup HTML Editor. Other awards include being ranked #400 in the Interactive 500 , 11 CNet Editors Choice Awards, 18 Tucows 5-Star Awards, and ZDNet Best Pick for Web Design Software.

CoffeeCup's Software is very buggy.

[edit] History

CoffeeCup Software was started in a coffee house called “The Raven & The Sparrow” which was owned by the company's founder, Nicholas Longo. The coffee house offered free Internet access to the public. This was the only location in Corpus Christi, Texas offering free Internet access at the time[citation needed], and only one of a dozen or so world-wide offering Internet access in 1994[citation needed].

Longo bought the domain www.coffeecup.com, and designed a website for his coffee house. He soon received requests from other business owners who wanted help designing their own sites. Longo started by designing those sites using Notepad. After designing an entire website in this manner, he felt there was an opportunity to create a program to make designing websites easier. Longo got together with a regular customer of his coffeeshop who was a programmer and they sat down and created the first version of the HTML Editor.

Since the coffee house already had the www.coffeecup.com domain name (domains cost about $100USD annually in the mid-1990’s[citation needed]), the fledgling software company was named CoffeeCup Software and the first program was named CoffeeCup HTML Editor. Longo posted the program on his website. Eventually, CoffeeCup began charging $20USD for the program. It was at that time, in 1996, that the decision was made by Longo to put away the espresso machines and devote full-time attention to developing software.

After the first year, a new programmer was hired to add enhancements to the HTML Editor. Customers began to ask for more features and extra effects to make their website stand out, and so CoffeeCup made an effort to listen to and utilize that feedback.

CoffeeCup's collected 7 tons of goods for Hurricane Katrina relief (link), raising over $1 million dollars for September 11th support and aid agencies and $50,000 for victims of the 2004 Asian Tsunami (link).

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.

[edit] Products

  • Current
    • CoffeeCup HTML Editor
    • Direct FTP
    • Web Video Player
    • Flash Website Font
    • VisualSite Designer
    • Flash Firestarter
    • Flash Photo Gallery
    • Flash Form Builder
    • Web Juke Box
    • Flash Website Search
    • Flash Menu Builder
    • Live Chat
    • Google SiteMapper
    • RSS News Flash©
    • Web Calendar
    • Flash Blogger
    • Password Wizard
    • PixConverter
    • MP3 Ripper & Burner
    • Website Color Schemer
    • Image Mapper
    • StyleSheet Maker
    • GIF Animator
    • WebCam
    • CoffeeCup Free HTML Editor
    • CoffeeCup Free Zip Wizard
    • CoffeeCup Free Image Viewer
    • CoffeeCup Free FTP 3.0 Sreenshot
    • CoffeeCup Free DHTML Menu Builder
    • CoffeeCup LockBox