16 Learning Dreamweaver
For web-design novices:
1. Begin by reading Chapter 2, “Dreamweaver Basics,” on page 27. Then
continue by doing the tutorials in this book. The tutorials are divided
into two sections. The first five tutorials are for beginners, and take you
through the process of developing a small but functional website from
start to finish. The second section of tutorials introduces you to more
advanced concepts. You might want to wait to do the more advanced
tutorials until you’ve developed some experience building web pages.
2. In Using Dreamweaver (Help > Using Dreamweaver), you get a more
comprehensive idea of what you learned in this Getting Started with
Dreamweaver guide by reading Chapter 1, “Exploring the Workspace,”
Chapter 2, “Setting Up a Dreamweaver Site,” Chapter 3, “Creating and
Opening Documents” and Chapter 4, “Managing Your Files,”.
3. Learn about page layout by reading Chapter 7, “Laying Out Pages with
CSS,” and Chapter 8, “Presenting Content with Tables” in Using
Dreamweaver.
4. To learn about formatting text and including images in your pages, read
Chapter 13, “Inserting and Formatting Text,” and Chapter 14,
“Inserting Images” in Using Dreamweaver.
5. That’s all you really need to begin producing high-quality websites, but
when you’re ready to learn how to use more advanced tools, you can
proceed through the rest of the static-page chapters in Using
Dreamweaver. You might want to wait to read the dynamic-page
chapters until you’re more familiar with creating web pages.
Experienced web designers
If you are an experienced web designer, this section will point you to
sections of the Dreamweaver documentation that are most appropriate for
your background. There are two different approaches: one for designers
who are new to Dreamweaver and one for designers who are familiar with
Dreamweaver but would like to learn more about creating dynamic pages.
