Book Description
If, as a web designer, you are looking for a server-side scripting language with the power to build and deploy web applications, Cold Fusion 5 is exactly what you need. Like ASP, Cold Fusion can integrate email, XML and information from databases. The result is a truly dynamic, responsive website with the fast, funky user-interface of Flash. What's more, now that a number of hosting companies are beginning to provide reasonably priced Cold Fusion hosting, this intuitive tag-based technology is becoming increasingly accessible to professional web designers.
This book assumes you have a fairly good knowledge of Flash 5 while being a novice user of Cold Fusion 5. The designer is led through chapters containing stand-alone tutorials, each reinforcing the others, until finally they build to form a complete real-world case-study. The fundamentals of Cold Fusion 5 will be introduced particularly within the context of their use in a professional setting, and in conjunction with Macromedia Flash.