If you’re using Dreamweaver and you get stuck with some kind of code – say you are doing tables and you are looking for attributes to configure tables in your HTML – where do you go? How do you figure out how to code something on your website? Here are the options:

1. Go to the help menu within Dreamweaver and try and search for your issue. This is okay, but can be a bit hard to understand, and sometimes the index of the help menu never cooresponds with what you’re looking for.
2. You can go to Google and search for it. You can search for “HTML Table Attributes” and see what comes up. Then, dig through the different websites as one person tells you to be using CSS to control your tables and another person showing you how to use the style attribute to add it right into the Table tag. I did this for a long time. For several years, this was the only option. I would search, find, and code. It works, but I wasted a lot of time.
3. You can go to Barnes and Noble and get an HTML book. Not a bad idea.  I did this as well. I spent about $30 and bought a pretty comprehensive book on learning HTML. I used it as a reference for quite a long time. For the most part, this worked. But, a book like this has it’s limitations. In reality, you need about 3 or 4 books that will cover all the different aspects of coding. Still, with the pictures and examples, this is a good choice.
4. Then came along Dreamweaver Video Tutorials. Here is why I like them. With the right tutorials, you can easily find what you’re looking for.  In our example, we are looking for information on Table Attributes. You can watch, listen, and copy what is being done. Having someone talk you through the coding, the different variations and options, and then letting you see how the code looks, followed by examples, that is actually a better way to learn, retain, and emmulate what needs to be done in developing your website.

You can certainly do what you want. I like items #3 and #4 the most. I still like books. But, I prefer to watch, listen and learn.

One of the other things I like about watching video tutorials is that during the instruction the teacher will show you advanced ways to use that same code to take your websites to a higher level. That is something that you cannot pickup in any of the other 3 methods… at least not that easily.

On this site, I am not a part of or working for any particular company. I recommend the “Ask Brian Wood” video series because I think his stuff is the most comprehensive, easiest to follow, has the best understanding of Adobe products, and has very good, quick customer service. You can see a few of the banners on our site for the Ask Brian Wood Dreamweaver Video Tutorials. If you’re able to, I think they are the best of the best.