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Maguscrowley
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August 2, 2011
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HTML and ColdFusion

  • August 2, 2011
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Hi. I was just hired at a government agency and they want me to do coldfusion. They plan on training me but I have no background in web developing. I'm a C, C++, JAVA, MATLAB guy and never touched anything beyond doing apache tomcat and servelets years ago in college.

As such I know no html. Do I need to learn it before doing coldfusion? How adept at it do I need to be?

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    Adam Cameron.
    Inspiring
    August 3, 2011

    As such I know no html. Do I need to learn it before doing coldfusion? How adept at it do I need to be?

    To use CF?  No, you need no knowledge of HTML at all.

    To produce web pages?  Yes.  You need a thorough knowledge of HTML, adequate knowledge of CSS and almost certainly have some level of competency with JavaScript too.

    Webpages are built with HTML, so it's a necessity to be familiar with it.

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    Adam

    Owainnorth
    Owainnorth
    Inspiring
    August 2, 2011

    ColdFusion is server-side, and is used to create HTML dynamically. Apart from a minimal number of functions you are still responsible for writing the HTML yourself, so you need to have a pretty thorough understanding of it before you even consider using CFML.

    CF will not create HTML pages for you, you still need to do it yourself.

    In saying that, the worst part of HTML is making it look good. Is that a requirement, or does it simply need to be functional? I'd recommend starting with the W3 schools tutorials online, they'll set you up pretty well.

    CFML is basically an extension of HTML, so don't try and run before you can walk

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