I've had a lot of people telling me to use frameworks. As a person with a non-traditional upbringing into coding, I've found all their websites to be equally confusing as to explaining what they are, and how to get started with them. They seem to equally assume you know vast amounts of ColdFusion's most advanced syntax and code, and the way they present their framework has been confusing at every turn.
Like how CF was so much easier to pick than Java or .NET, I was hoping a framework would simplify my web applications, but instead, they seem to be mired in an advanced OOP methodology (which chances are, IS the way to do programming, but isn't where I am yet, so I'm having a hard time comprehending it)
I guess I need to start somewhere. I think if I can find a website that doesn't a better job teaching than the framework's website (who are notorious for documentation that talks well beyond me and a lack of systematic tutorials to get me acclimated to using the system).....that might help me get my feet wet.