Helping a friend.

[MR2Beginner]

I am helping out a friends company and have some reasonable building capabilities. I am very new to cold fusion and have spent a more time in Joomla than anything.

That said, my friends had a company hosting and building for them and they were ripping them off ($500.00 just to add a webpage not even optimize it) so they fired them.

That company used ColdFusion on their servers and all files were stored there. They then transferred their site to a telus server in the meantime.

Fortunately only a couple of forms are not working right.

Can l use Dreamweaver or do I need to have Cold Fusion? (I have Dreamweaver CS3)

Should ColdFusion be installed on the TELUS server or can I have it on my own home computer and just upload from there?

Should I invest in my own hosting server or will TELUS be fine?

Any input would be great.

[tclaremont]

ColdFusion operates on the server. Dreamweaver is an editing tool that you can use to edit ColdFusion templates. They are two totally separate products for two totally separate uses.

Note that you do not need to use Dreamweaver to edit your ColdFusion templates. You can use any editor, or even notepad. Dreamweaver is a very popular editor, however, and you will be fine if that is what you choose to use.

In order to test your ColdFusion templates, you will need access to a web server that has ColdFusion installed on it. That can be your hosts' server, or it can be a local server or PC as long as it is running a web server with CF installed.

[ilssac]

To add a bit more to tclaremont's response.

You can get a developer licensed version of CF for free by download from Adobe to build a local server for development.

But to serve what you build to the public, you will need a web server running a paid licensed version of CF.  You could buy the license yourself to use on a server you own or lease from a hosting provider OR you can contract with hosting providers that provide hosting solutions with ColdFusion they have licensed.  These ColdFusion shared hosting accounts can be found for a wide range of prices many quite affordable.

[MR2Beginner]

Thanks for the quick reply, I feel a littlesilly askingsome of these questions, but ...

If i setup my computer with ColdFusion, will i need just ColdFusion or ColdFusion Builder as well?

[ilssac]

You *need* ColdFusion, if you would like to be able to execute CFML code on your local web server.

You may want ColdFusion builder, if you are unsatasfied with Dreamweaver as an IDE to create CFML code, but it is not required.

[JR__Bob__Dobbs · Accepted solution]

You need the ColdFusion server installed in developer edition for local development.

You can find installation documentation here:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Installing/index.html

Builder is an IDE. You could use Builder, Dreamweaver, or a text editor to create/edit your ColdFusion code, but you need the server to execute that code.

[JR__Bob__Dobbs]

I reccommend Ben Forta's books for learning ColdFusion:

http://www.forta.com/books