Foundation ColdFusion for Flash

If, as a web designer, you're looking for a server-side scripting language with the power to build and deploy web applications, ColdFusion 5 is exactly what you need. Like ASP, ColdFusion can integrate e-mail, XML and information from databases. The result is a truly dynamic, responsive website with the fast, funky user-interface of Flash. What's more, now that a number of hosting companies are beginning to provide reasonably priced ColdFusion hosting, this intuitive tag-based technology is becoming increasingly accessible to professional web designers.

This book assumes you have a fairly good knowledge of Flash 5 while being a novice user of ColdFusion 5. The designer is led through chapters containing stand-alone tutorials, each reinforcing the others, until finally they build to form a complete a real-world case-study. The fundamentals of ColdFusion 5 will be introduced, particularly within the context of their use in a professional setting, and in conjunction with Macromedia Flash.

What you’ll learn

Who this book is for

• Professional designers who want an intuitive software package capable of integrating dynamic content into their site
• Designers who want to enhance the productivity of their site by integrating it with the ColdFusion server
• Readers of Foundation ActionScript or Flash 5 Dynamic Content Studio who want to expand the capabilities of their Flash site