This tutorial is designed to help you become a proficient user of the Dreamweaver MX software. Dreamweaver is a web development tool that allows users to quickly and easily create effective and often interactive web sites. The tutorial was created in conjunction with other resources available on the ITSU site such as the Web Site Organization page among others. There is also a second part of this tutorial covering layers, hotspots and other high level tools

Macromedia Dreamweaver (http://www.macromedia.com/) is one of the most popular wysiwyg editors. Dreamweaver enables you to create a web site with little html knowledge, but allows you to edit the source code. Additional features of Dreamweaver include templates to make global changes easily and quickly and JavaScript behaviours, to enable you to create rollover graphics without needing to know how to code scripts.

Enhance your websites with advanced Google innovations without touching the code. Install Dreamweaver Tools for Google to quickly add powerful Google Search capabilities targeted to your site, drop a Google Map on any page to highlight multiple locations with custom markers or sell goods and save money with Google Checkout. Best of all, Dreamweaver Tools for Google is absolutely free.

Dreamweaver has become one of the industry's leading Web site design editing and management tool. This course is designed for students who wish to evaluate the Macromedia Dreamweaver Web design tool or who would like to learn to use it. The emphasis is on learning to use Dreamweaver as a tool to create a Web site, rather than on learning the basic concepts of Web design and we move very quickly. However, all questions about basic Web design concepts will be answered.

Ever feel overwhelmed by the complexity of templates, regions and library items in Dreamweaver/UltraDev 4 or earlier? The confusion compounds with Dreamweaver MX due to the introduction of a more strict template engine and multiple new region types that can be used in Templates. Hence, the reason we wrote this book specifically targeted to Dreamweaver MX Templates, to alleviate that dazed and confused look that one might get trying to read the help files. ;) Although the book is a bit dated by now, the principles in this book are still pertinent to the newest DW8 release. The template engine has not changed a bit in terms of its operation or its characteristics.