Hi Jim
Before you get started it's best to setup a new "Site" in Dreamwaver. This is where you tell Dreamweaver what local folder all your web files will be stored in. That way when you get ready to publish your pages to the Web they will all be relative to how the files are managed on your local PC. In other words, the file structure will be the same both locally and on the Web.
For example, let's say you tell Dreamweaver your site is going to be saved inside a folder called jimsite that's located in your "My Documents" folder. Every time you go to edit your site in Dreamweaver you'd go to your jimsite folder. You would organize your content into sub folders inside "jimsite". All your images would be saved in a folder called "images" and so on. Dreamweaver should walk you through setting this up if you haven't done so already.
In my version (MX) you do it by going to "Site" / "New Site" from the main menu. It will ask you a series of questions about your site and you fill out as much as you can.
There are many ways to make a hyperlink, but if you are going to do it in the Design View mode you simply put the cursor where you want the link to go and say "Insert" / "Hyperlink" from the main menu. Type in the info for the hyperlink.
OR...
You can select/highlight the text you want to hyperlink and there should be a "Properties" menu down at the bottom of the screen that lets you insert the link info. And if the page you are linking to is within your site, you can just browse to that file in your local folder and Dreamweaver will automatically code the link for you. That's why it's important to setup a "Site" before you begin so all your link paths will work when you publish your site live.
Let's say the page you are working on is jimsite/content/page1.html and you want to link the words "click here" to a page located at jimsite/content/page2.html, you would select the "click here" text and in the Link Properties box, simply insert the link info. You can Browse to the page2.html by clicking the yellow folder to tell Dreamweaver you want to link to page2.html.
Of course once you get comfortable, it's best to work in the code so you learn how HTML works but as you're getting started, get familiar with the features of Dreamweaver by using the Design View.
To create a new page you just say "File", "New" and choose a basic page. And when you save it, save it inside your "jimsite" folder.
Hope that makes sense.
You have a more recent version than I do but I would imagine the basics are the same.
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