Using ColdFusion Studio
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Chapter 10 : Using Projects for Site Management
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What are Projects?
A project is a collection of files that you use to develop your Web site. Files of any type can be included in a project, for example, HTML files, Cascading Style Sheets, images, application code, scripts, and more. You create projects using Studio's project tools. The following illustration shows a project in Studio:
In essence, Studio's project features allow you to create your own file system (similar to NT Explorer) that contains only those files you need to develop your Web site. The benefits of projects include the following:
- Projects make it possible to have all of the files you need to build your Web site located in a central, easily accessible location within Studio. Note that we are referring to access to the files; the physical files themselves can be located anywhere on your local, network, or remote drives.
- Once you have completed your Web site, you can deploy the entire project to your Web server and feel confident that no files are missing. (Deploying, or uploading, means copying the Web site files to the Web server.)
- Maintenance chores such as search and replace and link verification can be performed on an entire project, eliminating the need to perform the operations on each individual file.
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