No, no, no. Dreamweaver is sh*t. I am sorry, but it is just terrible. I used the MX version and the program still uses tables. I know it is hard to program it to use divs, but still. It is just shocking.
You want a website, you should learn HTML. It is really easy to learn, I taught myself. In 3 months of learning myself in the evening (There are by far enough tutorials on the internet) you can learn HTML fluently. You have to understand, HTML is pretty much written in English.
It works like this: You encase a command in the "<" and ">" tags to tell a computer that the text is a HTML command, and you write the command in. I mean, take this for example.
<b>Hello</b>
Open comman "<b>" tells us the following text is bold (b) and then "</b>" is a closing tag telling us that the bold text stops.
<p>This is a paragraph</p>
P stands for paragraph
<h1>This is a header of size 1</h1>
<body>The content of your website goes in the "body" section. This is the physical website</body>
<title>This is a website title</title>
You know the bit at the top, above the navbar, that says some text? That is the website's title.
<font color="black">Some random text</font>
Yep. You guessed what this does.
<font family="arial">Some more text</font>
The name of the font, or font "family". You can mix them as well:
<font family="verdana" color="white">Some white text with the font "verdana"</font>
<img src="hello.jpg" width="100px" height="40px" />
And image (img) which has a location (Or source - src) at hello.jpg (Or hello.gif, etc.) and has a width and height of 100 and 40 pixels (px).
For images, as there is nothing to put in between the opening <img> and closing </img> tags, we can write <img /> as shorthand. Effectively, they mean the same thing.
<font bgcolor="black" color="white">White text with a black background (bg) </font>
And website design is actually that easy! It looks a lot harder and more daunting that it actually is.
Being a bit hypocritical, once you start learning HTML it would be better to learn to use tables as they are simpler and much more intuitive to the human mind. Once you can write them fluently, try to incorporate CSS and divs and then try to be completely rid of tables in all but the most minimal of instances.
You can design a whole professional website using Photoshop and TextEdit. Go on the website in my signature at it was designed using only these 2 programs. Nothing else!
The only benefit to Dreamweaver is that it has auto-complete so if you can be bother to write "width" you can just write "w" and the auto-complete displays a little drop-down menu. Wow... Worth the odd few hundred pounds!
