I read the first edition and haven't seen the second edition. I imagine the new edition has completely updated the technology information. If you want to provide documents on your Web site or via email attachments then Adobe Acrobat is my tool of choice. Creating basic PDF documents is as simple as printing in any application - Microsoft Word, Adobe PageMaker, or QuarkXpress. Documents are read by anyone with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader available from the Adobe Web site.
Some Web developers pride themselves on being able to hand-code every bit of HTML for a Web page.
Hey, that's great. But Web page design and Web site management are a whole lot easier with Dreamweaver. There's so much more to Dreamweaver, making it an indispensable tool for Web development and site management. Try it and you'll never go back to hand-coding pages. I've gone back and forth between PageMaker and QuarkXpress over the years.