We'll we finished our first Reactor based website. It was a flat HTML site we upgraded to Coldfusion/Fusebox/Reactor/MYSQL with some basic CMS updates for links and content.

Before

After

It went pretty well. I wish the documentation for Reactor was more up to date. maybe if I have time this week I'll post about a few things I learned to help out others. I'm deep into my next reactor project already.

This project was the first one we used JQUERY on also. I have no idea how I got along so long without it. It is pretty fantastic and has really good documentation.

EDIT: For a test we used JQUERY for the Mouseovers on the main page. We were going from an premade FLASH design to HTML. So we made the Animated Gifs and swap them with the black and white images. The text on the main page is also swapped with JQUERY. Most of the JQUERY stuff is in the administrative section of the site to help manage the forms and links.

Since JQUERY lets you bind events to objects when pages load I have changed the architecture of our fusebox sites to include a dsp_jsp.cfm file for each page. This is included in the $(document).ready() section of the page via content variables. It's much better than all the JS cluttering up the HTML in our displays. In the future I might try and do something slick to have it as an include instead of stuck at the top of the page.