CoffeeCup Software, Inc.
711 North Carancahua Street, Suite 200
Corpus Christi, Texas 78401
(361) 887-7778

CoffeeCup Software, Inc., founded in 1996, was started by Nick Longo in a real coffeehouse, The Raven & The Sparrow. Opened in 1994, The Raven & The Sparrow was, at that time, the only place in Corpus Christi, and one of only a dozen or so worldwide, that offered free Internet access to people who wanted to buy a Cappuccino and surf the Web which was quite new at the time.

Now with all these computer junkies as guests, it was clear that the coffeecup.com domain name needed to be purchased and a Website for the coffeehouse made. Back then, good software to create cool Websites was really hard to find, so the first Website for the coffeehouse was made with hand-coded HTML using Notepad. One day, while chatting with a few regulars about creating Websites, the idea of a simple yet powerful piece of Software that would make it easy for non-technical people to build our own Websites was born. Since the coffeehouse already had the www.coffeecup.com domain name, the first software program was called the CoffeeCup HTML Editor, and the company named CoffeeCup Software. Today CoffeeCup Software has developed over 25 software programs and has more than 30,000,000 downloads from customers in 87 countries.

CoffeeCup’s software has not only been commercially successful, but it is multi-award winning as well. CoffeeCup HTML Editor has won a Shareware Industry Awards Foundation “People’s Choice Award” for six years in a row. Other awards that its software has won are: 11 CNET Editor’s Choice Awards; 18 tucows 5 Cow Software Awards; and ZDNet’s Best Pick for Web Design Award.

In January 2007, CoffeeCup Software implemented a program to give a free suite of its website software to schools worldwide. Within the first week of its free offer, CoffeeCup Software had made available free software to more than 150,000 students in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, Germany, France, Spain and The Netherlands. With this free offer, the schools will receive a package of five top-selling Windows applications that will help educators teach their students how to make websites.