[TYPO3-UG US] Modern Template Building, Part 1 (MTB/1)

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I am new to typo, and I really am looking forward to everything it has to offer. After the install my first point of business is to
see how easy/difficult it is to design a website around typo. It was suggest by Dimitri to read the Modern Template Building, Part 1
(MTB/1). And I have been doing that, however it is slow going. I get to about the 1.2.5 Basics of "Setup-field" instructions
section, and things start going downhill. And I am crawling through the remainder of the document. 
 
I wanted to know if there is any easier to understand, or other tutorials out there that might be able to give me an easier
understanding of how to design templates for typo. I would like to use dreamweaver to do this if possible. I would with a popular
shopping cart now, and when I design skins for that I know what snippets of code to put where, that will add the cart functions to
the design. But with this I am just not seeing how this all goes together. Since I am not a programmer by nature I am finding this
to be difficult to get through and understand. 
 
Any help or direction you all can offer would be appreicated. I am certainly not looking for a quick solution, but at least one I
can understand.
 
 
Chris