Hi Tom, To answer your questions:
Yes, CF is ideal for this project. It's pretty easy to learn, particularly if you are familiar with the tag based syntax of HTML. It has a lot of functionality 'out of the box', and it's syntax is pretty intuitive. You can happily have plain HTML pages and CF pages in the same site. You can happily use drop down menus, javascript, infact anything else you can put on a webpage and CF at the same time. You could use CF to dynamically build your drop down menus on page load for example. I've not used Cartweaver, so I can't comment on that specifically, but there are a wealth of options for CF based shopping carts. You've found a great resource here in the mailing list. Check the Adobe developers centre at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/ for a load of tutorials, and of course the massive number of communtity sites and blogs out there. Hope that helps. w -----Original Message----- From: Tom Budd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 April 2007 13:04 To: CF-Talk Subject: switching to coldfusion Hi I recently set up an HTML site using Dreamweaver 8 on a MAC which now needs to be converted into an ecommerce site. My background is in graphic design (therefore I'm still fairly new to Dreamweaver and HTML) and we've slightly ground to a halt and need some advice on which way to go next. Having trawled through various shopping cart software, we've decided that flexibility/customizability is key and therefore opted against a more template driven option (hosted cart solutions which all seem quite rigid). We've been looking at the software 'Cartweaver' (seems like one of the better ones) which gives 3 software options: ASP, Coldfusion or PHP. Having read a bit about them I'm leaning towards Coldfusion as they claim it is written specifically to ease the learning curve and development time of creating dynamic web applications and also because it is a tag-based language like HTML. Few QUESTIONS really: In the opinion of an experienced web developer/programmer, is Coldfusion the way to go with this project..... Is it really as straight forward as the software guys claim it is or is there a chance I will be biting off more than I can chew (being of limited experience)? Can I keep the existing HTML pages as they are or do I need to re-create them in Coldfusion? My client is very keen to use drop down menus as an easy means of searching through the different product categories. Initially I was looking to create these using Fireworks (Javascript) which seemed relatively painless... Is this still an option if we opt to go with Coldfusion? Any advice hugely appreciated especially on software recommendations and decent learning resources. Thanks Tom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade & see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJR Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:276291 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
