I have purchased a few of Coffee Cup's programs and have made my own website.
I know the amount of websites I make is unlimited, but, can I make them for others? How can they see the website while I am working on it? Can they maintain it themselves?

Any additional information about making websites for other people would be greatly appreciated!

Yes you can use CoffeeCup software to make websites for others.

They can see the website while you work on it if you have web space to load the site to, and you upload your changes for them to view.

The only way for a client to be able to maintain a website themselves is either:
1 - they own the same software that you have so they can learn to make their changes, OR
2 - you will need to build or use a "content management system" that lets the client make changes to sections of the website (much more advanced, and not a coffeecup software).

For any websites that I create, I keep the title of 'webmaster'. When the client needs changes, they contact me with the information and I update the site for them. For the clients who want to maintain their own site, I recommend the Visual Site Designer from Coffeecup as a great starting point, and help them to understand how to use it and upload their own site. This is a plus, because if they give up doing it themselves, I usually get the work. When they succeed on their own, you make a good friend who sees you as honest and helpful.

Hey, if you post a link to your site, some of us might visit?

One last note...
Make sure you are very comfortable with website design, and that you know your limitations before agreeing to build a website for someone else. They may want things on their site that you can't do, so just be careful. Good luck.

Thanks.
As of right now, I am just playing with it, and making a site for a friend. She currently has a website with tripod.com and I asked if I could make a website for her, again just to play with it. So the best way for her to see it would be to get a domain name and host, and publish the site?

That would work, of course, but may not be necessary. Until she sees the possibilities and benefits of having her own domain name and hosting account, depending on what your hosting situation is, you might create her site as an addon domain or subdomain in your account. Most accounts provide more server space and bandwidth than most of us need for our little sites. Then, if she decides she wants to take the plunge, she could get her own web hosting account and you could easily move her site from your server to hers.

There is a conflict when publishing a coffee cup vsd designed site with Tripod. I am not getting answers as to which end is the problem yet, but proceed with caution.
Coffee Cup says the problem is tripod, and I am waiting to hear back from Tripod hopefully tomorrow (monday). I have been with tripod for almost 9 years, but my current site was built with a different program, I love coffee cup, and have built a huge new site with it, and I can't get it to upload, frustrating but, I will do my best to figure it out. Unfortunately I am not real well versed in this stuff.

Wanda,

What are the issues you are having (not uploading, not showing at all, not showing properly, others)?

What features do you have with Tripod?

Are you on their free plan?

What CoffeeCup Program are you using to create the site pages?

How are you uploading those pages?

Do you have a link to a page that you have uploaded?

Just some questions that may shine some light on the issue.

Unable to Upload - I am missing some relevant information and as a result I am having difficulty uploading my site. I am based in Atlanta GA and would like to make contact with someone who is knowledgeable and is willing to show us what we are missing. My contact number is 678-261-4525.

Hiya sam,

I'd like to make a quick suggestion before you end up calling for help. Check your page and see if you have any "empty" quotes for links such as in a navigation menu area, most especially found in footer areas. This would be if you haven't finished and are just uploading as you go to see your changes. If the site is finished and the menus are already fully linking to locations other than blank " " then disregard and definitely contact someone.

I only suggest this because it was my problem at first that it took a bit to figure out that the site just wouldn't let me upload empty links for some reason. There are settings in the program that you can tell it not to stop uploads for those problems, but unfortunately I am on vacation and unable to look it up at the moment without the software installed (using in-laws laptop and I'm sure they don't want all my stuff installed on it hehe). Good luck on it and hopefully you find the problem quickly

To add to Wolverana's ideas could you possibly give us more about your problem such as , which program are you using, which version, what OS, hosting services, browser you use.......sorry to be a pain:)

Thanks for the prompt replies. I am using the latest version Coffee cup Visual Site Designer, Menu Builder, Photo Gallery, Form Builder - the complete current package.
Windows XP Pro. Our hosting service is www.webhosting.net and the browsers are Explorer & Firefox. I have attached a file which shows what information I have entered, please check for errors.

Thanks,

Sam