Saturday, January 24, 2009

Self-Paced Learning with Adobe Dreamweaver

By Mark Matthews

If you want to learn about animals, you would surely go to a zoo. If you want to become fluent in Spanish, you should go to a Spanish-speaking country... Being in the right surroundings and having a practical, hands-on approach to learning is far more effective for all ages than learning from a textbook. The same is true for web development software like Adobe Dreamweaver. Without gaining a practical insight into how Dreamweaver works, you will probably struggle with the program for a long time. However, by immersing yourself in interactive training software that actually takes you inside the program and demonstrates each feature, you'll see much better results in your own mastery of the Adobe Dreamweaver process.[V:0]

It doesn't matter if you're learning the program for fun or for your work: there are many reasons why people use Adobe Dreamweaver. Some are professionals looking to add skills to their resumes, and others are just regular people, who are just interested in learning something new. Adobe Dreamweaver is a great program for both creating and maintaining a website. It allows you to customize each aspect of your site, and then upload it to your server in a few simple steps. Interactive training solutions make learning easy, too, so that your experience can be less hassle all the way around.

Having a sound understanding of a product or tool that you'll use on a regular basis is essential to your success. After all, you would not create a very good impression if you signed on to do a project for a client, only to find out that you didn't know how to perform the tasks that they wanted done on Adobe Dreamweaver? Hands-on training will teach you everything you need to know, and because it's interactive and practical learning, you'll be much more likely to actually remember what you learned, making you a better, and more intelligent user in the end.

Anyone can buy a book and attempt to memorize text and instructions. However, mastering sophisticated software is much more involved than that. If you rely on books for your Adobe Dreamweaver training, you are likely to find yourself referring back to the text over and over again, simply because you're trying to memorize information and duplicate it without seeing the end result as you learn.

If you take the interactive training approach, such as training CD-ROMs or DVDs, you'll learn in a hands-on fashion, which will allow you to see the processes you'll be doing first hand, before you have to complete them yourself. All in all, books are great ways to learn about ancient history and abstract theories. When it comes to learning how to create websites, interactive training will make Adobe Dreamweaver much easier for you to master.

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