User Guide

16 Chapter 2 Writing Your First ColdFusion Application
4 View the page in your Web browser by entering the following URL:
http://127.0.0.1/myapps/calldept.cfm.
Development Considerations
The same development rules that apply for any programming environment apply to
ColdFusion. You should also follow the same programming conventions that you
would with any other language:
• Comment your code as you go.
HTML comments use this syntax:
<!-- html comment -->
CFML comments add an extra dash: <!--- cfml comment --->
ColdFusion removes CFML comments from the HTML that it sends to the
browser, so users do not see them if they view the HTML source. ColdFusion does
send HTML comments to the browser.
• Filenames should be all one word, begin with a letter, and can contain only
letters, numbers, and the underscore.
• Filenames should not contain special characters.
• Some operating systems are case-sensitive, so you should be consistent with your
use of capital letters in filenames.