The ColdFusion Developer's Guide provides the tools needed to develop Internet applications using ColdFusion. This manual is intended for web application programmers who are learning ColdFusion or wish to extend their ColdFusion programming knowledge. It provides a solid grounding in the tools that ColdFusion provides to develop web applications.

Because of the power and flexibility of ColdFusion, you can create many different types of web applications of varying complexity. As you become more familiar with the material presented in this manual, and begin to develop your own applications, you will want to refer to the CFML Reference for details about various tags and functions.