Hope don't despair and give yourself a fortnight of using the software. Build a site and upload it and see if you can get it to work fully, Dreamweaver is used by so many people that the net is full of folk giving info so if you get stuck do a search and the programme itself is full of help. If I can use, it so can you, with a little work, as I started the same way as you reading the same book so start simple get your site running and then find out about all the other things like Style Sheets and Java but you're a long way off for it to become a full time job so take a bit at a time.