Glen knows his breads. He knows his meats and his spreads and his salad vegetables. He knows all about making a good sandwich, that's how he makes his living, but he knows rather less about computers, and decidedly little about constructing and managing an effective website. However, his mobile sandwich service needs to have an internet presence in order to flourish, and this leaves him in a quandary: the company needs a stylish and professional website in order to get more business from local offices, but Glen doesn't want (and can ill afford) to hire a web designer.

Adobe Dreamweaver provides the ideal solution. With Dreamweaver, high quality websites can be created and tailored to fit any need. What's more, however, the software makes it easy to use the huge range of powerful and versatile tools that it offers. Glen can be confident that he can produce his ideal website by himself.

Dreamweaver allows for users to have any degree of coding expertise. Pages can be constructed partly or entirely by writing the html code, but in Glen's case, they can also be designed without recourse to manually entering code at any point. Just as the bread is a blank canvas upon which Glen can arrange whatever sandwich his customers desire, so Dreamweaver offers a space in which he can arrange all the content his website needs.

Glen starts with the basics. He selects the background colour from a standard colour menu, and enters and formats text just as he would in a word processor. At the base of the window he's working in, the Property Inspector provides options for any element of the page, so for text this is where he'd find the formatting tools; whatever Glen puts into his page, he can control how it appears and behaves through the selections that appear in the Property Inspector.

Next, he wants to insert some pictures of his sandwiches looking thoroughly appetising. To simply position them on the page is as easy as can be - he needs only drag and drop them into position.

The Property Inspector provides controls to make the appearance just right, such as adjusting the dimensions if need be, opening the picture in an editor for more detailed adjustment, or aligning the image with the text. Glen also wants visitors to his site to be taken directly to the menu if they click on one of these images, and the Property Inspector provides a straightforward tool for linking pictures to web addresses.

Dreamweaver also makes it easy for Glen to create a slideshow of his enticing images; the software builds the slideshow from a range of predesigned image viewers, and all Glen needs to do is select the pictures he'd like to see in it.

If he wanted to put any video or other interactive content, such as games, into a site, then Glen can add them in much the same way. However, he'd rather keep things simple and stylish, so pictures and text are all he needs for the main content of the site. He still wants it to look professional, though, so he'd like the links that are used to navigate around the site to be more attractive than merely underlined words.

Again, Dreamweaver has a tool for this. The software comes with a ready-made range of appealing and dynamic buttons that can be simply slotted into a navigation bar or anywhere in the page, and linked to other pages on the site through the Property Inspector.

Finally, Glen wants visitors to be able to get in touch with him directly through the site. Dreamweaver provides two means for doing this: firstly, Glen can set up a 'mailto' link, which when clicked will automatically open up a new email message on the visitor's computer addressed to Glen. Alternatively, the software provides a range of prebuilt and easily customisable forms, which can then be linked to an email address, so that everything entered into the form will be sent directly to Glen as an email. This second option often proves preferable, as it keeps the actual email address hidden from visitors, thus removing the risk of attracting spam email.

And all of this can be done without Glen even looking at code, let alone having to type any in. Dreamweaver makes it easy to create websites of the very highest quality and with the greatest functionality, all through an intuitive and easily understood interface. And whatever your website needs for your company, and whatever kind of company it may be, there's a great deal of benefit to be gained from using Dreamweaver to build and maintain an online presence - and from a short training course to help you or your staff make the most of the huge range of powerful and versatile tools that the software offers.

With Dreamweaver, you can transform any website without having to bring in expertise from outside - and that surely is a tasty deal for any company.