good stuff mike, good stuff!!
CFTALK ROCKS.
that's fur sure :)
-Original Message-
From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 11:14 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Reading CF-Talk pays off for me
I thought I'd share a benefit that came from reading and learning from
you wise people.
About 2 years ago, I was reading about how it was important to separate
content from logic, the appearance layer from the other layers. At the
time this was a concept I hadn't seen voiced before but it made good
sense.
Until then, my Coldfusion had been making small interactive
applications, that weren't connected together in any way. A user puts
preferences in a page 1, clicks submit, page 2 executes a datasource
query and displays a list of selections based on the user's preferences.
I had few common files, and maintaining the common look and feel of all
these apps was handled by using snippets in my CFStudio. I hadn't
really grasped the full importance of using CFINCLUDE at that time.
Then we came to reskin the site to update the appearance, and I decided
that this new-fangled idea of separating presentation and content and
logic was a good thing. So while we were reskinning the site I
separated these elements out. I had a couple of different header.cfm
includes, and two footer.cfm
includes (with slightly different content). The reskinning then took
about
the same time as it would have if I'd gone through each of the 70+ apps
and updated them with the new appearance. There were times I was
wondering if there was really a point.
Well this week I proved the point. Time came to update the site's
appearance again. The site has about a dozen categories, and different
colours and images, menu structures etc for each. Now there are 128
little
colfusion applications. This time, to reskin the site I had to redo
the
header.cfm file, and the footer.cfm file, and tweak the application.cfm
to
query the SQLDatabase for the category colours, image names etc. The
reskin happened with no more than 3 minutes down time, and took me less
than a quarter of the time it did 2 years previously. And everything
worked fine.
We could have a designer give us a new design tomorrow, and I could have
the site reflecting the new look the next morning.
Thanks CF-TALKERS!
Cheers,
Michael Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
AFP Webworks.
~|
Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=i:4:137946
Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4
Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4
Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more
resources for the community.
http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
