Viewing CFM files in Dreamweaver

Hi all....." have CF setup so I just run .. my CFM files from DW8 by hitting F12"
Saw that in another post and would really love to set my dreamweaver up so it can do this too. Can anyone advise?
Being new to the 'scene' I'm constantly learning. My software includes winxp, xampp (apache, php, mysql), coldfusion). I am at the stage now of
going through online tutorials to learn how to best use it all. After designing my four common pages with DW and PS the next task is to work out how to have the 1100 or so pages of products and content inserted as needed. I looked at DW templates at first but that got messy so I am hoping that CF will meet the challenge. I am a total novice. But I have installed everything I need and now I'm trying to get it all working smoothly together.
Someone kindly directed me to PHP as a solution, and I will learn PHP, but I think I need to get an understanding of CF first (seeing as I have gone to the trouble of setting it up on my machine.
So I figure one of my initial steps is to set up my environment to properly review my work as I progress.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thankyou

Also, I went into manage sites, coldfusion8 tutorial (the name of the site)
And in the site definitions box I have:
Local Root Folder: C:\xampp\htdocs\Coldfusion8
tutorial\cf8gettingstarted\tutorial\
Default image Folder: C:\xampp\htdocs\Coldfusion8
tutorial\cf8gettingstarted\tutorial\images\
HTTP address:
http://localhost/coldfusion8%20tutorial/cf8gettingstarted/tutorial/
OMG how stupid am I? (dont answer that)...
I copied files to that directory and I can view them now by pressing f12 in
DW.
But can you explain why you think the browser jumps to index_content when I
call for index.cfm
Thanks for all of your help everyone. Sorry If I wasted anybody's time. I
thought I had tried that but, in the confusion, it looks like I didnt, or
something.
Thanks again
Now I can start learning how CF handles databases.
If you know of any good tutorials for a total novice, if you could let me
know, that would be great!
Many Thanks!

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