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This concise, example-rich guide teaches Web designers and other graphics professionals exactly what they need to know to build top-quality Web applications with ColdFusion 4.5 -- fast. Endorsed by the World Organization of Webmasters, Essential ColdFusion 4.5 for Web Professionals offers no-nonsense, practical coverage designed around actual application examples. Working Web professionals learn ColdFusion by building real-world applications for a fictitious company -- and checking your work against finished applications deployed on a companion Web site. Along the way, you'll learn each component of a working ColdFusion solution, mastering the most widely used ColdFusion tags and functions as you create increasingly sophisticated applications. Coverage includes: database integration, online catalogs, sending email and interacting with users, providing site search features, and more. The book also includes a thorough introduction to developing e-commerce applications for WAP enabled cell phones and wireless PDAs.
From the Back Cover
With Allaire ColdFusion 4.5, you can build powerful, dynamic Web applications faster than you ever imagined! Learn ColdFusion 4.5 now, from professional Web developers, through real world projects with example code available from the companion Web site. Start with the basics, such as learning database fundamentals and setting up an Access database. Then master every element of a robust ColdFusion solution, from setting up your ColdFusion server through working with the most important ColdFusion tags and functions. Every project's code examples, database, and images are downloadable from the companion Web site. No other ColdFusion book gets you running this fast, or supports you this well!
You'll learn all this and much more-hands-on!
- Database access and integration
- Building online catalogs, step-by-step
- Automating email and user interaction
- Providing site search capabilities
- Integrating ColdFusion with WAP and web-clipping technologies to build applications for WAP-enabled phones as well as wireless Palm devices
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