Other Online Resources

You can find interesting and useful help with Dreamweaver and Web sites in general if you go beyond just Web sites.

Dreamweaver Newsgroup

 news://forums.macromedia.com/  macromedia.dreamweaver 

Macromedia has a lively newsgroup for Dreamweaver users that gets many messages every day. You'll need a Usenet newsreader program to access this forum. Good ones are Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express on Windows, or Microsoft Entourage or Panic Software's Unison on the Mac. Or, just send your browser to http://groups.google.com/ group /macromedia.dreamweaver.

Wise-Women Mailing List

 http://www.wise-women.org 

Wise-Women is an online community, with a Web site and an email discussion list ( Figure A.8 ). The purpose of the list is to provide women on the Web with a supportive atmosphere to deal with issues of Web development, design and consulting. Wise-Women was founded in 1999 by one of the authors of this book (Dori), and is going strong today. You'll find lots of useful information on the mailing list about using Dreamweaver, among many other subjects. And in case you're wondering, the community is not just for women only.

Figure A.8. The WiseWomen online community offers support and help for women and men alike.

Lynda.com Online Training Library

 http://www.lynda.com 

If you're more of a visual learner, Lynda.com offers an excellent series of video training programs that cover Dreamweaver and the rest of the Macromedia product line, as well as many other software packages ( Figure A.9 ). You can purchase these training programs as CD-ROMs that you can view on your computer, or you can access the videos over the Internet through their Online Training Library, for which you'll need to purchase a subscription. One of us (Tom) produced Contribute 3 Essential Training for Lynda.com.

Figure A.9. The Lynda.com Online Training Library offers 12 hours of video training on Dreamweaver 8.