Getting Help from Dreamweaver
There’s plenty of assistance built right into Dreamweaver itself, from beginner tutorials to Dreamweaver’s online documentation and online support center. You’ll find details below.
Detailed Assistance
Adobe provides online documentation for Dreamweaver, accessible by choosing Help→Dreamweaver Help (or by pressing the F1 key). This launches your web browser and loads the documentation for Dreamweaver CS6. The opening page lists categories like “Creating Pages with CSS” and “Previewing pages,” where you can get detailed information on various aspects of the program.
Note
If you prefer your documentation printed, you can download a PDF of the entire Dreamweaver manual. Choose Help→Dreamweaver Help (or press the F1 key) to access the online help documents. You’ll find a link in the top-right corner of the screen labeled “View Help PDF” that downloads a hefty Adobe Acrobat file.
Adobe also offers a more interactive version of their online help system called Community Help. It’s like a Google for Dreamweaver (and other Adobe products). When you search for a Dreamweaver-related topic—“templates,” for example—you get a list of pages that have something to do with Dreamweaver templates. However, rather than search the entire Web, including Joe’s “I just learned Dreamweaver 2 seconds ago and now I’m an expert” blog, Community Help searches only websites Adobe has determined have good and accurate information. That includes Adobe’s own website, but other useful sites ...
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