Dreamweaver CS5: The Missing Manual

Getting Help from Dreamweaver

There’s plenty of assistance built right into the program, from beginner tutorials to the Adobe Help system. You can also access Dreamweaver’s electronic help system and online support center from the Help menu. You’ll find details below.

Detailed Assistance

In Dreamweaver CS5, Adobe has changed their help system (again!). You can now tap into an Adobe Help program that contains Using Dreamweaver CS5 documentation. But it also lets you access online help from Adobe.com (www.adobe.com), as well as from select resources on the Web. The Help program is basically just a modified web browser that searches online documentation. Choose Help→Dreamweaver Help (or press the F1 key) to launch the Help program and view the Using Dreamweaver CS5 documents. It includes a list of categories such as “Creating Pages with CSS” and “Previewing pages” where you can get more 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. There, you’ll find a link labeled View Help PDF that downloads a hefty Adobe Acrobat file containing Dreamweaver CS5 documentation.

Adobe has a more interactive version of their online help system called Community Help. It’s kind of like a Google for Dreamweaver. When you search for a Dreamweaver-related topic—templates, for example—you get a list of pages that ...