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Peter Tilbrook
ColdFusion Applications Developer
ColdGen Internet Solutions
Manager, ACT and Region ColdFusion Users Group - http://www.actcfug.com
4/73 Tharwa Road
Queanbeyan, NSW, 2620
AUSTRALIA
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Subject: [cfaussie] RE: my first cf page
Date: 12/11/03 12:59
Rob, I've seen what others have written, and you're at all like me, you're
feeling pretty depressed right now, wondering where there is ANYTHING you've
done right.
The views you've seen up to now are right. Expressed by very experienced
and professional web developers. So don't go dismissing what they say.
But you haven't done a rotten job. It's a hell of a lot better than most of
us do on our first few efforts. And it all works, which is more than you
could have said about my first sites.
Technically speaking, your site is fine for an amateur production, but I'm
afraid the others are right, since you're aspiring to becoming a pro at
this, you have to be measured by pro standards. What we're all either
using nowadays, or struggling to come to grips with is using CSS2 to handle
layout and fonts and colours. That will be a very fruitful thing for you
to learn about. If you go looking for jobs next year and can show that
you're proficient with standards-compliant CSS2 sites, you'll be streets
ahead of the other people competing with you for jobs.
Take a look at the zen garden project and you'll see how powerful it is for
people wanting to earn a living at this. http://www.csszengarden.com/ is
one of the sites in the circle. They all have the same content, but only
differ by different style sheets. You can click on the links on the page
and see how the site changes totally with a different style sheet and
nothing else changed.
The other important thing you could do between now and the beginning of the
year is get hold of a good ColdFusion book and work your way through it. I
suggest Barry Moore's book "Cold Fusion MX - From Static to Dynamic in 10
steps" which is priced about student budget level. It takes you through a
project to rebuild a pretty standard html site in coldfusionMX including a
shopping cart. It's not immensely detailed but takes you through all the
things you're going to need to know for about 80% of your life as a new
ColdFusion pro. There are other more comprehensive books of around 1000
pages, but they aren't priced for students and I think if you thoroughly
understand all the concepts and techniques in Barry's book you'll be at
least as proficient as half the people I deal with and more proficient than
most.
What you'll need to earn a living as a coldfusion pro is a sound basic
knowledge of all the routine tasks you have to do, and a good overall
knowledge of the way cold fusion works, but you don't have to know the ins
and outs of every last tag. There is good help on line for that, and of
course resources like CFAUSSIE. You'll soon learn most of the tags by just
using them. As long as you know that there is a tag that does this job or
that job, you can find it in the CFDOCS.
Rob, you have plenty to learn, but then so do the rest of us. You're going
to do ok. You've made a great start.
Cheers,
Michael Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
AFP Webworks.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rob shaw
Sent: Monday, 10 November 2003 3:36 PM
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Subject: [cfaussie] my first cf page
Good afternoon,
I am a student at qantm, I have developed this website for a small
company and was wondering what people thought of it....
And most importantly what would you change if you could....
Any feedback would be much appreciated.
I am looking at doing this next year and i want to know what level
potential employers (you) are looking for.
Thanks people
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