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SO EASY even your grandmother could design your website!
Congratulations! You've made an excellent first decision: Dreamweaver is recognized by designers and small business owners as the best program BY FAR for creating a website. (Don't have Dreamweaver? Read on and I'll tell you how to get a free copy for a 30-day trial!)

However, Dreamweaver comes with a LOT of bells and whistles you don't need - and shouldn't be forced to learn! - to set up your website. And... it's almost impossible to learn to use by yourself. Until now!

Hi! My name is Harold Fann, and my website design company gets a lot of business from people just like you. People who SHOULD be able to design their own websites - but can't. Because Dreamweaver does a terrible job telling you how to use its program, and doesn't bother to show you how to integrate it with things you'll need for your business. Things like e-commerce add-ons so you can actually make some money from your site.

Fortunately, Dreamweaver -- and e-commerce add-ons -- are actually pretty easy to use once someone walks you through it!

Let's look at your available choices:

Dreamweaver's manual
Just one problem with this option - there's no manual! Oh, sure, if you buy the whole Adobe Web Creative Suite (CS3) there's an "overview" book you can buy for $15 extra dollars, with a few pages on Dreamweaver. But Dreamweaver expects you to use the online help or tutorials to learn and apply their program.

That's crazy, if you ask me. How can you look up how to do something when you don't even know what you need to ask??

Available books - Dreamweaver help
There are some great books on Dreamweaver. For example, Dreamweaver CS3 - The Missing Manual is a wonderful book - all 995 pages and 3.2 lbs. of it, for $44.99. Loaded with lots of stuff you don't need - and no way to avoid those things.

That's the problem with most "how-to" books - they assume you want to learn how to do practically EVERYTHING in the program. So you'd have to spend the next 3-4 weeks - FULL TIME - going through almost everything in the book. Because that little technique you must have for your site - that's discussed on page 943 - requires you to have learned several other techniques hidden in the previous 942 pages!

If you're planning a second career as a website designer - I recommend you buy Dreamweaver CS3 - The Missing Manual, or a similar book. (By the way,since these books are PRINTED, all the graphics in them are black and white - NO COLOR. So you'd better know what you're looking at, because the graphics aren't going to help you much.)

If you just want your website up as quickly as possible - so you can get on with making money from it! - then spare yourself the time and aggravation. Chances are, you want to USE Dreamweaver, not necessarily LEARN it.

Classes/training offering Dreamweaver help
If you ENJOY doing tutorials (personally, I would rather visit the dentist!), you can buy Dreamweaver training. The best place to go for Dreamweaver training is Adobe - especially if you have purchased the Creative Suite of products (Dreamweaver CS3, Fireworks CS3, Flash CS3, Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, Acrobat 8 Professional, Contribute CS3 etc.).

For $99, you'll get 12 months' access to the Basic Library of courses - beginner tutorials for a broad range of Adobe products. Or, for roughly $1,195 (PLUS transportation, food and lodging) you might be able to find three days of beginning Dreamweaver training someplace close by.

Which brings you back to the same problem: How many hours will you spend learning the program instead of BUILDING YOUR WEBSITE?

A visitor recently sent me a link for a subscription service, which advocates building your site with Fireworks, then exporting it into Dreamweaver. Sorry, folks, but this makes as much sense as baking an angel food cake in a muffin pan - sure, the taste is there, and once you assemble all the muffins and put frosting on them, who's going to know...? Unfortunately, search engines will choke before they accept something so bulky. But, if you'd like to use a button-making software to build a website, I guess it's up to you. The cost? $69 per year. Those are some high-priced muffins.

I've also seen sites with subscription tutorials. They charge $25/month - with no end in sight. I've actually had access to this in the past, but could never find the time to sit down and go through all the tutorials. (Heck, tutorials sound about as exciting as watching grass grow, so I guess I shouldn't have been surprised I never got around to it.) About 4 months down the road, I realized a hundred dollars had gone down the drain, for something I'd never even looked at. It was definitely time to cancel.

Why this book makes Dreamweaver so easy
You probably don't know me, so you're wondering whether I can really take a complex program - plus all the e-commerce setups you'll need to add on - and make it all easy for you.

Today my company, HRFinc.biz, designs websites and web pages for clients, such as AmadeusEntertainment.org, RaiseYourPrices.com, Music Row Connection, The Newsletter Group, Pricing Strategy Associates, World Villa Review, Tao Of Pricing, Pricing Strategy Resources, and recently The Newsletter on Newsletters. We also advise clients about web optimization, search engine strategies, and how to design a site that will rank higher in keyword searches. Search "pricing psychology" (without the quotes) on Google, to see the results of optimizing for PricingPsychology.com: out of 2,240,000 results in a recent search (Sept. 19, 2007), the #1 free listing result was for PricingPsychology.com. This was achieved organically¡ªno smoke and mirrors.

Before going out on my own, I spent 20 years at a design company - where I was the key person learning each new software program, and then teaching them to the rest of the staff and providing support to our clients. (These programs included CompuGraphic MCS, A&M, Linotronic; PageMaker, Quark, Photoshop, TrapWise, Illustrator, Freehand, Dreamweaver, and Fireworks.)

I've gone through training, spent days reading manuals, and completed a ridiculous number of "tutorials," but my goal was always to GET THE JOB DONE. I wasn't into "learning for the sake of learning." The employees I had to teach the programs to didn't care, either - they only cared about learning enough to do their jobs.

Through all of this, I discovered that the best - and EASIEST - way to learn a program was to jump in and do REAL WORK in it:

NOT doing tutorials - where you create something worthless and hope you learned what you need along the way.
NOT reading manuals - where you struggle with the abstract while trying to picture it in the real world.
If you start with a real job - YOUR WEBSITE, for example - you care very much whether it comes out right. Things you would skip over in a tutorial are suddenly very real when YOUR WEBSITE depends on it. Things that would have you yawning in a book can suddenly be riveting (especially since you can now SKIP STUFF YOU DON'T NEED).

This is the mindset I used in writing the Step by Step Websites in 3-6 Hours series. It's straight-forward, to-the-point, and no-nonsense. If you only need to use 10 command tools to complete your website, then that's what you'll learn. And... you'll learn them only when you need to use them as you build your site!

If you want to learn some of this extra stuff later - fine. That's when the 11 GREAT add-ons for websites will come in handy. And, at that point, Dreamweaver's reference materials will make sense. Example: A definition of a pixel isn't much help - until you've SEEN 300 pixels wide on your screen to at least give you an idea what a pixel is.

Dreamweaver help: Step by Step Websites in 3-6 Hours with Dreamweaver CS3, Dreamweaver 8, Dreamweaver MX 2004 & MX
To prevent you from wasting precious time, I've edited and edited these books, to get them down to the minimum you need to know to create a professional-looking website - including one which accepts online PAYMENTS!

Because I can't know which version you have (Dreamweaver CS3, Dreamweaver 8, Dreamweaver MX 2004 or MX), I created a book for each of them. Yes, this is the fourth successful book I've written for people using Dreamweaver to build their sites. And since there are four books available, feel free to hunt for a bargain buying one of the older versions of the program: You'll still have exactly the right instructions to create your website without frustration. (Read on - I'll tell you how you can get a free 30-day trial version of Dreamweaver CS3.)

The book for the Dreamweaver CS3 is 159 pages. Even that "159 pages" makes it sound harder than it is, because MOST of what's on each page are screen shots with text and arrows - so you can see EXACTLY where you go and what you need to do. In fact, as PDF formats have gotten better, I've included more, better quality and larger pictures. For instance, the CS3 book has 31 pages filled with instructions for adding eCommerce to your site¡ªwhether you're selling multiple items, a single item, or products with a huge number of multiple variables.

Further - these books are carefully designed to let you skip sections which cover something you may not need (accepting payments or complex navigation, for example) - without missing anything you do need.

The net result is you can get a one-page mini-site (with extra "Thank you" and other follow-up pages) created and up on the web in less than 3 hours. We've timed it!

? Here's what you get. (Click to view the full Table of Contents for the Dreamweaver CS3 book. Click images below for sample pages.)

Tested - by total amateurs!
Now it's all very well for ME to think these instructions are easy enough for your grandparents to follow. But I had to test it with complete amateurs to make sure. I wanted people who could use a computer to get email and who could write letters in Word - but not much else. I figured if these less-than-normally-computer-literate people could follow these guidelines and create their own website - then the book would be even easier for YOU and others who are a little higher on the computer-savvy scale.

Results from 2 complete amateurs:
Tom Presson, Colorado
Background: Basic computer skills, no experience in website design or Dreamweaver.
Results: When Tom started going through the Dreamweaver MX 2004 book, he decided that the site he made should help promote Step by Step Websites! See Tom's site at EasyWebsitesNow.com.
Time: 4-1/2 hours (See testimonial at top left).

Richard Rinker, Aurora, CO
Background: Knows his way around the internet, likes to download and test out applications, but never tried building a website before.
Results: Created a one-page ecommerce website for selling "how-to" manuals.
Time: 3-1/2 hours from start to completion - which includes setting up "buy now" payment links.

Since then we've had a lot of customers use my books to create their own e-commerce websites. See what they have to say in the blue bar on the left!

Special bonus gifts!
Anyone planning their own website deserves some special bonus gifts - and you are entitled to 3 of them!

#1 - Pick your versions of Step by Step Websites

You're covered for whichever Dreamweaver version you can get the best deal on, from MX to Dreamweaver CS3! You can download the Dreamweaver MX? manual, the Dreamweaver MX 2004? manual, the Dreamweaver 8? manual, or the Dreamweaver CS3? manual - or all four!

#2 - GREAT add-ons for websites
(You get 11!)

There are some wonderful add-ons that can greatly increase the value of your website. And, they're presented in the same clear, easy-to-do style as Step by Step Websites. The image at right shows the Table of Contents for this additional 30-page report, completely updated and revised Dec. 2005, and checked again against Dreamweaver CS3 for compatibility. Click the sample page images to see what you get!

#3 - $25 worth of personal design help... FREE!

I know you can use my books to design your own website without any outside help. After all, I've tested it! But... I also know you may have some doubts about it. What if you run into something you just can't figure out?

Or... what if there's some kind of special feature you'd like to add to your website? Something that might not be covered in the books?

For that reason, I am agreeing to personally help you with YOUR specific questions - 30 minutes worth - for zero cost to you.