CoffeeCup Software, Inc., a leading web authoring Internet software company, announces the availability of their Educational Software Package, a free suite of five top-selling Windows applications that helps educators teach their students how to make websites.

Qualified teachers can receive copies of five powerful web design and maintenance applications, without charge, including:

- CoffeeCup VisualSite Designer, a WYSIWYG website creator and editor that empowers web novices to make stunning web pages. Using a library of dozens of professionally-designed templates and an intuitive interface, CoffeeCup VisualSite Designer lets teachers guide students in their introduction to the Internet and to website creation;

- CoffeeCup Web Calendar, a simple wizard-driven program that adds a cool Flash calendar to your website. You can keep track of school events, meetings, and holidays. Educators can master the program quickly, and use it as an effective tool to acquaint students with creating a stylish, interactive website;

- CoffeeCup News Flash, a utility that makes it easy to add headlines and news items to any website. Grab news from Yahoo, CNN and CNET. Learn to use Flash and RSS to announce news, and link to other web pages;

- CoffeeCup Form Builder, a Flash-based form builder that uses drag and drop to create web forms. In minutes, you can add professional-quality input boxes, lists, check boxes, and radio buttons to your website; and

- CoffeeCup Photo Gallery, a program that makes it simple to add image galleries to websites. Simply point to the class, sports team, or school club pictures, and the program turns them into an online slide show.

"We're happy to provide educators with the tools that they need to teach students to create high-quality websites," said Dr. Nicholas Longo, founder and co-captain of CoffeeCup. "Providing our free Educational Software Package is CoffeeCup Software's way to give back to the community."

"We've made it as easy as possible for US-based elementary and secondary public schools and libraries to receive these five software applications," said Scott Swedorski, the founder and former editor-in-chief of Tucows and current VP of Marketing and Distribution at CoffeeCup Software. "Simply fill out a one-page online form on http://www.coffeecup.com/k12/ , and we'll ship your CDs to your school, with no strings attached."

For more information about CoffeeCup Software or their products, contact Suzanne Miller at CoffeeCup Software, Inc., 226 South Tancahua Street, Corpus Christi, Texas 78401 USA. Phone: (361) 887-7778 Fax: (361) 887-8788 Internet: http://www.coffeecup.com/

About CoffeeCup Software:

CoffeeCup Software was founded in 1996 and has over 19,000,000 users worldwide using its Web design software. They are #400 in the Interactive 500, a ranking of Internet and eCommerce companies, and have won many industry awards for Web design software excellence. CoffeeCup Software also provides Search Engine Submission and Web Hosting services to its users in over 72 countries.