ColdFusion Web Development with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004...

If you want a book you can read and use in your day to day work, this is definitely it.

— Hien Nguyen, Central Jersey ColdFusion User Group

ColdFusion Web Development with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 explores the exciting web development partnership between ColdFusiona fantastically powerful but easy to learn server-side scripting languageand Dreamweaver, Macromedias world-class visual web authoring tool. With Dreamweaver, you can set up your ColdFusion website, connect it to your database, put together all the code for the pages, and style themall with surprisingly little effort.

The book is full of practical examples. It begins by teaching the basics of the ColdFusion language and showing you how to use ColdFusion to perform tasks such as connecting to databases, decision making, reading XML, querying, and error handling. Further, it delves into more advanced topics, such as ColdFusion extensions, custom functions, and Flash remoting (using Dreamweaver MX as the IDE). The book is supplemented by an extensive case study that shows you how to put together everything youve learned to build a fully operational, dynamic, real-world website. It also explores common web applications like blogs, review pages, and user registration/login forms.



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ColdFusion MX Web Development with Dreamweaver: The Practical Users Guide explores the great web development partnership between ColdFusion,a fantastically powerful but easy to learn server-side scripting language, and Dreamweaver, Macromedias world-class visual web authoring tool. With Dreamweaver, you can set up your ColdFusion website, connect it to your database, put together all the code for the pages, and style them too, with very little effort. This book will get you quickly up to speed on the basics of ColdFusion.

The book is full of practical examples. It begins by teaching the basics of the ColdFusion language, shows you how to use ColdFusion to perform tasks such as connecting to databases, decision making, reading XML, queries, and error handling, and lastly, it touches upon advanced topics such as creating ColdFusion extensions, custom functions, and Flash remoting (using Dreamweaver MX as the IDE). The book culminates with a large case study that shows you how to put everything together to build a fully operational, real world dynamic website. It also demonstrates common web applications such as a blog, a review page, and user registration/login functionality.



Reader Reviews
This book starts out slowly if you already know ColdFusion, but then it jumps quickly into dynamic Web development using ColdFusion MX 6.1 in conjunction with Dreamweaver MX 2004. Most other Dreamweaver books usually try to do too much by also covering ASP, PHP, or JSP. Such books have failed where this one succeeds in giving the reader a comprehensive and well illustrated guide to one technology, rather than gloss over several at the same time. In addition to the bread and butter things you can or should do in ColdFusion for a Web site, the book devotes two whole chapters XML and Web Services, and the last chapter gives a case study of a complete ColdFusion-based Web site. Yet, despite having six authors, it comes in below 500 pages and does not look at all like those bloated volumes which try to explain everything under the information technology sun. If you are looking for a reference book covering all the details on ColdFusion or Dreamweaver, look elsewhere. If you want a book you can read and use in your day to day work, this is definitely it.