Preparing to Create an Application

Before you can start using Dreamweaver to write ColdFusion code, the following steps must have been performed:

  • Create the application root directory.

  • Define a site in Dreamweaver.

  • Verify that the application directory is set up properly and ready to use.

If you did not complete these steps back in Chapter 2, please refer to that chapter before continuing.

Make sure that the ows site (created in Chapter 2) is open.

Creating a Work Directory and File

As explained previously, to simplify organizing the code created in this book, each chapter’s code goes in its own directory.

To create a directory for this chapter, do the following:

1.
Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac) the site name in the Site tab ...

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