Hi Will Yeah thanks for that - really helpful! Thanks also for getting back so quick...
Tom On 4/26/07, Will Swain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:276501 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
