Cold Fusion Rocks My Boat! (Allaire Cold Fusion Studio)

Member Name: baboon

Product:	Allaire Cold Fusion Studio
Date:	18/01/01 (189 review reads)
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Advantages: Accessible, versatile, good reference guide included

Disadvantages: One or two minor bugs

Cold Fusion Studio is a great package, not only for its use as an all pupose editor, as the previous correspondent stated but also for the development of Cold Fusion applications, for which it was created.

I've only been in web design since June 2000 and have had to learn a lot on the go. Cold Fusion Studio lets me construct dynamic webpages easily and efficiently using Cold Fusion Markup Language (CFML) which I have found relatively easy to learn and a lot more accessable than, say, ASP.

The help section is incredibly useful, with full tag glossary and definitions. There are also some useful wizards to cut down on time.

One fault I have found however, is that switching from code view to design view and back again drastically reformats code meaning that nine times out of ten it wrecks the page. My advice : avoid doing it...its not necessary.

Cold Fusion Studio helps you to create dynamic websites in a very straight forward and accessible way which is why I like it and why I use it on a daily basis.

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