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Why Choose Cold Fusion?

Until recently, developing sites with dynamic content was a difficult process. Writing custom Web-based applications was a job for experienced programmers only. A good working knowledge of UNIX was a prerequisite, and experience with traditional development or scripting languages was a must.

But all that has changed. Macromedia's Cold Fusion (CF) enables you to create sites every bit as powerful and as capable but without a long and painful learning curve.

So, what is Cold Fusion? Simply put, Macromedia CF is a Web application development tool that enables the rapid creation of interactive, dynamic, and information-rich Web sites.

Macromedia CF does not require coding in traditional programming languages. Instead, you create applications by extending your standard HTML files with high level formatting functions, conditional operators, and database commands. These commands are instructions to the Cold Fusion processor and form the building blocks on which to build industrial strength applications.

This method of creating Web applications has significant advantages over conventional application development. Cold Fusion;

• applications can be developed rapidly because no coding is required other than use of simple HTML style tags.
• applications are easy to test and roll out.
• The language contains all the processing and formatting functions you'll need (and the ability to create your own functions if you really run into a dead end).
• applications are easy to maintain because there is no compilation or linking step, so the files you create are the files used by Cold Fusion.
• provides all the tools you need to be able to troubleshoot and debug applications.
• comes with all the hooks needed to link to almost any database application.
• is fast, thanks to its service-based architecture.

THE DYNAMIC PAGE ADVANTAGE

Linking your Web site to live data is a tremendous advantage, but the benefits of database interaction go beyond extending the capabilities of your Web site.

With Macromedia CF you can create dynamic, data-driven Web pages. Dynamic Web pages are becoming the standard, and for a good reason. Consider the following:

Static Web pages
Static Web pages are made up of text and images, and HTML formatting tags. These pages are manually created and maintained so when information changes, so must the page. This usually involves loading the page into an editor, making the changes, reformatting text if needed, and then saving the file. Of course, not everyone in the organization can make these changes. The Webmaster, or Web design team, is responsible for maintaining the site and implementing all changes and enhancements. This often means that by the time information finally makes it onto the Web site, it is out of date.

Dynamic Web pages
" Dynamic Web pages contain very little actual text. Instead, they pull needed information from other applications. Dynamic Web pages communicate with databases to extract employee directory information, spreadsheets to display accounting figures, client-server database management systems to interact with order processing applications, and more. Because a database already exists, why re-create it for Web page publication?

Cold Fusion provides you with a full range of database interaction functions to create complete dynamic, data-driven Web pages. The features include:

• The ability to query existing database applications for data.
• The ability to create dynamic queries facilitating more flexible data retrieval.
• The ability to execute stored procedures in databases that support them.
• The ability to execute conditional code on-the-fly, to customize responses for specific situations.
• The ability to enhance the standard HTML form capabilities with data validation functions.
• The ability to customize the display of dates, times, and currency values with formatting functions.
• The ability to ease the creation of data entry and data drill-down applications with "Wizards."

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