Most of the time, free stuffs are not actually free. Some companies will insist to get at least your email address in order to download their "free" software. For those of you that might be wondering why some companies tempt you to give them your email address or phone number, the reason being that your contact information will be harvested by spammers or so called business affiliates. Do not fall into that trap. Privacy is becoming more and more invaded these days. CoffeeCup does not ask for your email address nor telephone number. You will just need to download this HTML Editor from their website and the application is up and running. No strings attached!I have tested this application and it is loaded with many interesting features including syntax highlighting. It also allows you to preview your HTML design in the same window. Since I have started to tinker with PHP at my playground, the editor is able to highlight the PHP statements nicely. The most important feature, for me personally, to use this application, is the FTP which is used to perform file uploads and downloads. No more paying a hefty sum of money to buy FrontPage or Dreamweaver - IDEs that helps you most of the frontend but leave you clueless about the underlying HTML codes.
Other than that, the interface is very intuitive. Everything that I wanted to do is within my estimation, which means that I know intuitively what buttons to point and click or which drop down menu to look at, the first time I was using this application. This is true when I configured the FTP settings.
But hey, since CoffeeCup HTML Editor is free, you should not expect that it is very feature-packed just like those off-the-shelf HTML editors. I have mentioned the pros earlier so here are some of the disadvantages. I have only came across one - CoffeeCup HTML Editor is only available for Windows and that is sad.
Anyway, this is the link again to download CoffeeCup HTML Editor. Have fun trying it!
DISCLAIMER: I am recommending CoffeeCup HTML Editor as a software developer that has tried its features and I think it is useful for other web developer and I do not receive any endorsement fee from CoffeeCup to write this article :)
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nice article! I never tried CoffeCup HTML Editor, but my personal favorite so far is Notepad++ + WinSCP, which is as snappy as the Windows notepad, highlights most syntaxes, has some powerful macro's and is light as the morning breeze.
ReplyDeleteA bit more advanced while still free Komodo Edit lacks the speediness of Notepad++, but has integrated SCP client and autocompletion. Although it's a must have for large projects, the loading time is the major drawback of this monster.