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.

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Learning Dreamweaver