>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 > > > >>
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