I am no novice to site development but have never used cold fusion. It looks like I may be hired to take over a site that uses cf and I have a couple quickies:
1) Is there software I will need to get in order to develop and is it at all similar to dreamweaver?
2) If so would it still be ok to use a text editor and ftp?
thanks for your help.
oilman
5:40 pm on Sep 8, 2003 (gmt 0)
Cold Fusion is (at it's most basic) simply templates with placeholders that are replaced by elements out of a database. No reason you can't work in notepad and ftp if you want to. There are also a bunch of CF editors out there as Google will gladly point you to. I've not used them so I can't recommend any over the others.
lorax
5:44 pm on Sep 8, 2003 (gmt 0)
CF did have it's own editor (CF Studio) but now that Macromedia owns them I suspect the integration with Dreamweaver MX is probably such that you could continue to use DW. In general though, as Oilman pointed out, it's code. You can use whatever you like as long as you follow the rules.
