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By Jennifer Kyrnin, About.com

Dreamweaver is one of the most popular professional Web design tools available, and this site has lots of tutorials to help you use it. But it can be hard to know which ones are most useful. These are the most popular tutorials, how tos, and quick tips about Dreamweaver on this site. You can also see all the Dreamweaver tips, Dreamweaver how tos, and Dreamweaver tutorials.

Updated: December 2007

1. How to Create a Mailto Form in Dreamweaver

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Mailto forms are very popular, because they don't require any coding of a CGI or other script to make the form work. And it's easy to do with Dreamweaver.

2. Introduction to Dreamweaver

In this tutorial you'll learn how to set up Dreamweaver to recognize all the files in one directory as a "site". Then you can use Dreamweaver to upload those files to your Web server and manage them more effectively.

3. How to Create a New Site Using Dreamweaver

This is a step-by-step tutorial for creating a new site using Dreamweaver. Each page of the tutorial has a screen shot so that you can see what you need to do as you work through the steps.

4. How To Create an Image Map with Dreamweaver

Image maps are a lot of fun, and they're easy to build with Dreamweaver.

5. How Do I Include One HTML File in Another Using Dreamweaver?

Including one file in another is a very desirable tool, and one that isn't really possible with just HTML. Luckily, there are ways to use Dreamweaver so that you can create a file and then add it to every page you need it on. If you edit it in Dreamweaver it will then update all the related pages.

6. Writing HTML Code in Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver is best known as a WYSIWYG editor, but you aren't limited to that. If you prefer to write HTML in code view, the Dreamweaver code editor is a very powerful tool as well.

7. Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Walk-Through

This visual walkthrough explains the various windows and fields of Dreamweaver MX 2004. The Dreamweaver 8 Walkthrough isn't as popular, and didn't make this list - which I find interesting.

8. What is a Dreamweaver Design Note?

Dreamweaver has a great collaboration tool that you can use with your team - Design Notes. I sometimes even use design notes when I'm working on a site alone, so that I can remember tricky parts without comments in the HTML.

9. How to Add a Graphic in Dreamweaver

Graphics and images are an important part of Web design, and Dreamweaver makes it easy to add them.

10. How to Add RSS Feeds to a Web Site with Dreamweaver

RSS is very popular, and with a special extension, you can add RSS feeds to your Dreamweaver sites without a lot of fuss or bother.

What's your favorite Dreamweaver tutorial? Or what would you like to learn about Dreamweaver?

Whether it's on this site or another site, there are still lots of other things to learn about Dreamweaver. What are your favorite tips?

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