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Macromedia ColdFusion MX Development with Dreamweaver MX: Visual QuickPro Guide

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If you want to start learning ColdFusion and are a Dreamweaver MX user, this is the book to get. It will guide you step by step through the basic concepts you need to know to get started. After completing this book you will be ready to move on to one of more advanced books. I bought Ben Forta's book first and tried several times to start learning ColdFusion, and failed. Now, after going through the "Visual QuickPro Guide", Forta's book makes more sence. The best beginners guide out there!

Dreamweaver and ColdFusion are both terrific Macromedia products, so using Dreamweaver MX to develop ColdFusion applications seems logical to me. However, this is the only book I've seen that actually shows how to do simple projects that work the first time. Most importantly, Sue Hove (like most Visual QuickPro Guides) doesn't leave out steps or fail to explain what's going on with the process. I've written some CF projects from scratch and they work just as well as her examples, but I liked using this book to generate CF code from DWMX that I could use to study and learn. My copy is already dog-eared. I only regret that I have one copy and I'm always leaving it at work when I want it at home, and visa versa.

I'm new to ColdFusion and am a hard person to teach. I don't do well after just reading a book. I needed a more tutorial or hands-on based book to walk me through and allow me to actually do it. I'm on chapter 6 so far and with the exception of some serious problems with the steps on page 51 (Ben Forta has an errata on his website for this page) its been great. I can usually tell if I am going to get anything out of a book or not after the first few pages or a chapter. Which is why I bought this book about a week after buying ColdFusion MX with Dreamweaver MX by David Green. Not sure why people say in some reviews that there is "too much talk" in these books, I need all the information I can get and this book seems to provide it in a way that even I can understand..and let me tell you thats saying a lot. Hope you have as good of an experience as I have.

I bought this book last week. I was kind of expecting another "demo jockey" visual quickstart book. Instead of showing you what each menu item does...this book takes you through a more tutorial based learning experience. I have found this book to be extremely helpful. I am not a programmer, and frankly have little desire to be one. This book shows you Dreamweavers object oriented approach to creating coldfusion apps through Dreamweavers codegen functionality. I have been corresponding with the author (Sue Hove) and she has informed me that there are really no changes from DreamweaverMX and Dreamweaver MX 2004's codegen functionality. So this is the book to get even if you are running MX 2004 and coldfusion mx 6.1.

The authors, Marc and Sue, have taken their time and obviously performed their research on their target market as well. I can say that because this has to be the best beginner book for making ColdFusion MX web sites with Dreamweaver MX that I have read to date.

I found the book to be very well organized, easy to read, thorough in it's discussion and the included exercises of the task at hand.

Not only do they cover the basics in the first segment of the book, but they get into hand coding and advanced features of ColdFusion MX in the second section of the book.

For a little book (312 pages), it certainly is packed with punch! If you want to get started making ColdFusion MX Web sites with Dreamweaver MX, then I highly recommend this as your first educational resource for the project you have been craving to make.

This is an excellent, easy to understand, step by step guide to the application programming aspects of building dynamic ColdFusion MX web sites with Dreamweaver MX. The book covers both the wizard-like, fill-in-the-blank approach, using Dreamweaver's server behaviors, as well as CFML hand-coding. The authors' style is easy to understand, and the concepts are laid out in a "task oriented" format that allows the reader to skip to a particular section to learn a troubling concept without having to build an entire application that starts in the first chapter. This book is a top notch learning tool.

The authors deliver an excellent introduction to ColdFusion developing for Dreamweaver users. Maybe the best book available on the market for HTML people that needs to go one step further and want to get started with application developing

I hadn't used ColdFusion MX prior to getting this book, but the visual step-by-step approach made it very easy to learn. It's a great way to pick up CF, and the portions on hand-coding are especially strong.

I hadn't used ColdFusion MX prior to getting this book, but the visual step-by-step approach made it very easy to learn. It's a great way to pick up CF, and the portions on hand-coding are especially strong.

If you already create HTML pages with Dreamweaver MX, this book is a great way to learn about databases and application servers via ColdFusion MX. The concepts are easy to understand, and the book is highly recommended.