Whether you are using Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 or CS5, or any other version, I can guarantee you that there is something you can learn to improve the quality and look of the website or blog template you are designing.

You might want to look at taking a Dreamweaver course of some kind.  Furthermore, if you are creating websites that you want others to know about, meaning when they do a search on Google that they find your sight, one of the little talked about benefits of Dreamweaver is that your website will likely have an edge of many of the other websites out there that you will be competing against.  Let me explain.

Let me give you one brief example why you may want to consider taking a Dreamweaver course.  There are dozens and dozens, even hundreds of aspects that Google takes into account when they are indexing a page on your website. A couple of the factors are the cleanness of the code on your site, and the speed at which your website loads. Dreamweaver creates clean code that is also valid according to the current standards. Many times when Google or some other search engine is going through your site, and they find garbage code or older, outdated code, it can be a strike against your site.

Another factor is the speed at which your site loads. I know you have gone to a site that seems to take forever to load. Many times this is because there is so much “extra” code on the site that it takes your web browser much longer to process all this information. I have seen some code that was created my many of the other HTML editors that generated way too much code. Dreamweaver could produce the same site with 75% less code, making it load faster and giving your site a greater edge.

Taking a Dreamweaver course can really unlock many of the components of the software program that you may not even be aware of, or learn to use some of the tools much more efficently. It is much more than just an HTML editor, which is one of the reasons that it is still the #1 choice of real programmers who create websites and blogs.

Below I want to list for you a couple of courses you might want to consider taking, along with a brief description:

1. AskBrianWood.com – I have mentioned this one in other places. One of the reasons this is good is because Brian has written many training books for Adobe and has trained many Fortune 500 companies. He has great online classes and makes things pretty exciting. He has lots of extras and a ton of testimonies. There isn’t much that Brian doesn’t know. You can go from novice to expert pretty quick. His class is probably one of the more expensive ones (still not too bad though), but it is probably the best option to learn everything.

2. Dreamweaver Made Simple - This is probably the most popular course out there in taking someone from the very basics, up to an intermediate level use. He can certainly go into some advanced level stuff, but the focus here is one mastering the basics and becoming proficient with Dreamweaver. The price is pretty good and you get some extra support through their support desk.

3. Dreamweaver Tutorial - This is a mostly free site that can show you some basics as well. When you’re done here, you will know the basics, but not much more… but hey, it’s free! You may want to go through his free videos before taking some advanced stuff from Ask Brian or something.

There are others that you can find by doing a Google search, but these are the three that seem to be best. Others out there seem to be either copied material, outdated, or really nothing new you couldn’t discover on your own.

Finding a Dreamweaver course is something I highly recommend, especially if you are wanting to design a site that is both user friendly and search engine friendly. If you intend to do any marketing, making any money, or offering any kind of service, then I highly suggest you take the time and go through a series of tutorials or lessons and learn what you need to know. You can cover the cost of the course with one sale, and the rest is all yours.