I learned Dreamweaver using the H.O.T book (hands on training) and I thought it was a wonderful learning resource. You build a webpage step by step using a lot (but not all) of the Dreamweaver features. I don't know if they have one for 8 out yet but you could get the MX version, I'm sure it's not much different. Here is a link;
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/032...Fencoding=UTF8