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If you’re following along on your system you might have opened instead on design view in which case you would have seen a blank screen that looks like this. If you see this blank screen try clicking on the code view and what you should see is the actual code of the HTML document.

Now divert your attention to the top of the screen to what we call the ‘Insert Panel’. The insert panel is a collection of tool bars that have buttons for creating various types of code. And notice that in Dreamweaver CS 3 the insert panel has a number of tabs including the common – ‘layout’, ‘forms’ and so on. Specifically notice that there is nothing relating to Coldfusion here.

I’m going to close this HRML document. I haven’t made any changes to it so I won’t be prompted to save it. And then I’m going to create instead a new Coldfusion page by clicking on the Coldfusion link, under the ‘create new’ category. My new CF page opens. Take another look now at the insert panel at the top of the Dreamweaver interface; notice that there are now two additional tabs. They are both CFML and CS Form.

These two tabs have tools that create specific Coldfusion code and will be using these two tables quite a bit in later videos as we construct Coldfusion pages. This is one aspect a very simple one of the integration of Dreamweaver with Coldfusion. If you decide to use Dreamweaver as your primary development tool for building Coldfusion applications, your first step is to try creating a very simple Coldfusion page. And again you can do that by clicking on the appropriate link from the welcome screen. You can also create a CF page, by selecting from the menu – ‘File’ – ‘new’ and then under the ‘blank page category’, look in the ‘page type’ column and notice that there are 2 items there for Coldfusion – a Coldfusion page and a Coldfusion component.

Once again I’ll select Coldfusion this time by clicking on the items and clicking ‘create’. And once again if I look at the top of the screen, I see my CFML and Coldfusion form tabs.

Now in later videos, I’m going to show you how to configure Dreamweaver with a site that is specifically designed to support Coldfusion application.

In case you didn’t see the video in part 1 of this series… here it is again.

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