Dreamweaver 8: The Missing Manual

Appendix A. Getting Help

Hard as it may be to believe, even this book may not answer all your questions about Dreamweaver. Fortunately, a wide range of other resources awaits when a particular feature doesn’t work for you.

Getting Help from Dreamweaver

There’s plenty of assistance built right into the program, from beginner tutorials to a complete browser-based help system. You can also access Dreamweaver’s electronic help system and online support center from the Help menu.

What’s New

If you want a comprehensive overview of Dreamweaver 8’s new features, select the “What’s New in Dreamweaver 8” option from the Help menu. A categorized list of new features includes short descriptions and links to more detailed discussion in the electronic help system. Unfortunately, they neglected to put references to the appropriate pages in this Missing Manual.

Getting Started

If you’re brand new to Dreamweaver, see the Getting Started with Dreamweaver materials (Help → Getting Started with Dreamweaver) and follow the step-by-step tutorials that cover specific Web-creation tasks. These range from setting up a Web site to using Dreamweaver’s dynamic page-building tools. You’ll find them fairly basic (this book’s tutorials cover most of the same ground more thoroughly), but you can never have too much practice.

Detailed Assistance

For detailed information on specific features of the program, turn to the Using Dreamweaver reference. This electronic help system includes information on all the program’s features, ...