XML and Dreamweaver

As I mentioned last post, I am new to Dreamweaver and this week I took my first plunge into writing XML with this Adobe application.

Writing XML still confuses me at present and, although I have found many tutorials that are more or less helpful for either XML or Dreamweaver, I have yet to find the right fit of the two as concerns my situation. So I continue to glark and glean what I can and troubleshoot my educational style as if it were a network to be configured (and constantly). At the University of Arizona CBT website I log in and find that there is Mark Long's "Introduction to XML" and James Gonzalez' over nine hour course on Adobe Dreamweaver CS4, both offer initial large chunks of insight for this larva. But, and it is a BIG "but" if you have only a week to learn to write XML and learn to navigate Dreamweaver, Long shows us XML on a PC using NotePad and Gonzalez gives us Dreamweaver for over nine hours but seems to have neglected XML (though I have yet to watch the full nine hours).

On YouTube, after entering "Dreamweaver" and "XML" I begin to find friends. I find many tutorials though I feel as if I am sometimes obsessed with my search for "the perfect tutorial." Is this what finally leads one to make a tutorial of his/her own? I find after many hours I can hobble together just enough to have something to hand in for my class assignment, something that displays in my web browser anyway, something created in Dreamweaver CS4 and saved to my desktop with a .xml extension.