Upcoming release of the new CoffeeCup...

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Andrew Oppatt wrote:
however it has a long way to go to catch up to Serif's WebPlus X2 ....


Isn't webplus twice the price?
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I like what you've done, but I had hoped for better support for CSS Style sheets. While putting CSS elements into the HTML code is fine for simple sites. The creation of separate CSS style sheets is really useful for larger sites. Am I missing something or do I have to cut and paste styles created in the editor to separate files and then code the rel link by hand?

Regardless of the answer, I still appreciate the improvements and look forward to seeing the final product.
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Bill Oertel wrote:
Hey Scott -- You hit it on the nose.
"You can create one document that includes both sets of code or create two pages, one with the HTML and the other with the CSS."

That's what I need to know how to do -- Yeah, I'm brain dead and it's probably
something simple and right in front of me and I keep missing it.

In the simplest terms, what you do is create one page and call it index.html and then create another page and call it style.css Now in each file place the proper HTML and CSS coding.

HTML file:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>What's a Website Project - CoffeeCup HTML Editor</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheets/style.css"/>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>


CSS file:
@import "reset.css";
body { font-family:georgia,times,serif; font-size:16px; line-height:1.25em; color:#222; }
h2, h3 { font-family:tahoma,arial,sans-serif; }
h1 { display:block; margin-bottom:20px; height:90px; background:#f60 url('../images/heading.png') 10px 5px no-repeat; text-indent:-9999px; border-bottom:3px solid #333; }
h2 { display:block; margin:2em 20px 10px; padding:20px 0 10px; font-weight:bold; font-size:24px; color:#060; border-bottom:2px solid #ccc; }
p { margin:0 40px 2em; }
strong { font-weight:bold; }
em { font-style:italic; }
img { display:block; margin:20px 0;}
a { color:#060; }
a:hover { color:#900; }

ul { list-style:square !important; }
ol,ul { margin:20px 40px; padding:0; }
ol>li { margin:0 20px 2em 0px; padding-left:80px; min-height:50px; }
#toc li { margin-left:20px; line-height:2em; }
#toc a { font-weight:bold; }
li.one { background:transparent url('../images/number_01.png') 0 0 no-repeat; }
li.two { background:transparent url('../images/number_02.png') 0 0 no-repeat; }
li.three { background:transparent url('../images/number_03.png') 0 0 no-repeat; }
li.four { background:transparent url('../images/number_04.png') 0 0 no-repeat; }
li.five { background:transparent url('../images/number_05.png') 0 0 no-repeat; }
li.six { background:transparent url('../images/number_06.png') 0 0 no-repeat; }
li.seven { background:transparent url('../images/number_07.png') 0 0 no-repeat; }
li.eight { background:transparent url('../images/number_08.png') 0 0 no-repeat; }
li.nine { background:transparent url('../images/number_09.png') 0 0 no-repeat; }
.sub li { padding-left:50px; }
.sub li.one { background:transparent url('../images/number_sub_01.png') 0 0 no-repeat; }
.sub li.two { background:transparent url('../images/number_sub_02.png') 0 0 no-repeat; }
.sub li.three { background:transparent url('../images/number_sub_03.png') 0 0 no-repeat; }
.sub li.four { background:transparent url('../images/number_sub_04.png') 0 0 no-repeat; }
.sub li.five { background:transparent url('../images/number_sub_05.png') 0 0 no-repeat; }
.sub li.six { background:transparent url('../images/number_sub_06.png') 0 0 no-repeat; }
.toplink { display:block; width:120px; height:26px; margin-left:40px; background:transparent url('../images/toplink.png') 0 0 ; text-indent:-9999px; }
.toplink:hover { background-position:0 -26px; }
#footer { margin:2em 0 0; padding:20px 20px 40px; color:#fff; background-color:#f60; border-top:2px solid #333; }
#footer p { margin:0; padding:0; }
#footer a { color:#ffc; }
#footer a:hover { color:#fff; }
#copyright { font-size:12px; }

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david wilson wrote:
Hey Scott:

Is <span align="center"></span> still valid? I've seen conflicting info on the web.

Hi David,

SPAN is an inline level element, which means it has no margins to center between. So, no. It's not valid. Did you find this inside of our editor anywhere by chance or did you manually enter that in?
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The upcoming new release looks fantastic!! I consider myself to only be a novice when it comes to developing web pages, but I do enjoy using CoffeeCup for the limited editing that I do. One thing I've been hoping for in a new release is one additional capability in the editing of tables in Visual Editor. The current tool only allows you to merge cells in the horizontal. I'd like to be able to merge cells vertically. Will this capability be included in the new release?
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Andrew Oppatt wrote:
Isn't webplus twice the price?



WebPlus is only $30 more and well worth the extra money ... and is a crap load less than Dreamweaver and others and is very easy to learn compared to others and allows you to create great web sites with ease .. CoffeCup has its potential and slowly catching up which is good to see... keep up the good work !

One thing to keep in mind is that WebPlus charges for each version release but CoffeeCup Software has offered free upgrades to all registered users for over 13 years. We also offer complimentary phone and e-mail support and our executive team is quite active here in these forums which you don't find that over at Serif.

So overall, I say we are the best rootin tootin software company this side of the Mississippi! :)


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Can't wait to try it on for size.
Billybee
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Time for changes. It looks really cool Scott and I´m looking forward to the new cc html editor.
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Can’t wait to use the upcoming release….
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Coffee Cup HTML Editor and Serif WebPlus are two different beasts... the latter is a full-blown WYSIWYG, try doing anything with the code that it generates, WebPlus would be better described as a code generating program, it doesn't really do code. I teach web design with it and "Yes, kids love it!" but if you want to play with the code, HTML Editor, as a piece of software for writing code, is the best value for money out there by a bus ride in my opinion.

The new HTML Editor does seem quicker to me, roll on the full release so that I can get rid of that pesky orange banner!
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