What is the difference between Flash, CSS, Tables, HTML, Actionscript, and Dreamweaver?

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What are the basic purposes of each of these? I can't seem to find a simple definition of what exactly they do or how they are different from each other. Please try to avoid high-level webdesign jargon but on the other hand, please don't recommend "geocities" or some other prefab site - I want full control over the page and currently use Adobe CS3. What should I focus on learning? Thank you!
 
Flash: is a multimedia platform for all the games, animations and programs you see online that are large and fast (Java is small but slow).
CSS: are style sheets that are used to make websites look nice, margins etc.. This can be done in html, but would leave the html code messy, and unusable by many people.
Tables: are html code that create standard sized tables, as per the code in the website.
Html: code for websites, it is the actual code for all the images, flash, java and style sheets. It basically refers to all of the above, as well as breaking the site into various components.
Actionscript: is the code needed for Flash games/programs.
Dreamweaver: is a WYSIWYG editor (what you see is what you get), for html and css. It basically shows the edits you make instantaneously, and makes creating websites rather easy.
 
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