Customizing page layout content in Dreamweaver is not particularly simple. Is that a bad thing? It depends. If you are not fussy about how your pages look, or if a "customized" blog with your own font color and logo is sufficient, then the course we have embarked on is overkill and you can use a WordPress blog for your content.
However, if your content really requires customization, unique page layouts with your own artwork, media, fine-tuned colors, and interactivity, then the price of working with Dreamweaver is probably good value.
Here is the challenge in conceptual terms: the page designs you generate in Dreamweaver are actually generated code. Specifically, they are HTML (in our case HTML5) and CSS (Style Sheets) code. Moreover, the challenge, or the trick, is to be sure that content you add falls in the proper place within the coding.
Doesn't Dreamweaver's Design view manage this? Kind of. For relatively simple page...