I agree - Get the WACK - follow the tutorials and you will be off and running in no time.
- Nick -----Original Message----- From: J.J. Merrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 6:57 AM To: CF-Newbie Subject: Re: Coldfusion & Dreamweaver Welcome! Dreamweaver is what we call and IDE or Integrated development environment. It is the tool that you use to code your CFML. Dreamweaver is a very widely used product that codes not just CFML but allows you to also do design with straight HTML and also do programming in ASP, PHP etc. There are multiple choices for IDE's for CFML such as CFEclipse, HomeSite, the old CFStudio and even NotePad. Dreamweaver itself does not allow you to do what you need to do to connect to a database, you would need a server side technology such as CF, ASP, PHP Ruby etc... Which brings us to CF. ColdFusion is a both a programming language and a server side technology. You actually install it on your webserver and it processes your CFM pages, does all the data calls to the webserver and then outputs HTML to the person calling the page on the fly. I would highly suggest going out and getting Ben Forta's Web Application Construction Kit book... AKA "WACK". It will be an invaluable resource to you and will help step you through some of the basics and getting started. J.J. M On 8/3/07, Philip Dodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Hope someone can help with a bit of information or where to start. I have been asked to set up an intranet that will be able to post and get data from a SQL 2000 database, I have no experience of anything of a web page building nature so please make it simple :-) I have set the intranet running on a windows 2003 server. > > I have the intranet all set up and working so now its on to the creation of the pages, a few people that I know are using dreamweaver, but I have also come across Coldfusion and it seems to better suit my needs with regards to talking to the databases, what I need to know is one better than the other or do they both work together. > > Sorry if I haven't included enough information > > Thanks tress > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Newbie/message.cfm/messageid:2981 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Newbie/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.15
