A Quick Look at the CSS Layouts with Dreamweaver CS3, 12.5 minutes. Dreamweaver CS3 comes with some canned column layouts created with style sheet rules. Thjs video shows three options (fixed, elastic and liquid) and how they are different. Although these layouts only come with CS3, they can be used in older releases of Dreamweaver.

Modifying a Canned CSS Layout, 16.5 minutes. Shows selected changes to one of the CSS layouts that come with Dreamweaver CS3 - specifically a fixed layout with a main area, two side columns, and a header and footer. This layout uses descendant selectors and ID selectors to define parts of the page, so editing is done with the CSS style editor.

Password Protecting a Folder on the CALS Server, 15:42 minutes. Shows the steps in creating a folder that is password protected. A password protected folder requires a site visitor to enter a username and password to view the pages. This is used for parts of a class site, for a site being developed, or for parts of a site that are aimed at internal audiences.

Creating Selectors using Page Properties, 11:29 minutes. This shows creating your first selectors (rules) for a document, using the Page Properties window in Dreamweaver. This is the way you can assign different traits to the four types of links and use or turn off underlining on some of the link types.

Using the Randomtext Script on the CALS Server, 11:45 minutes. A programmer in the Networking Lab wrote a script that lets you create a datafile of text, images, or text and images which changes part of a web page each time the page is reloaded. This script is shown in this video. It only works if files are on the CALS server.

Dealing with Missing Web Pages, 6.5 minutes. As you start to delete older web pages or folders or change the filenames for previous files, you need to set up a page that displays to site visitors if they try to find a page which no longer exists.

More videos about using FormHandler. Information from HTML web forms on the College server are normally proccessed using FormHandler. These new videos describe creating an email template, creating a data template and log file, referencing the files needed by FormHandler, importing data from a datafile into Excel, and steps needed if you do not require email on your form.

Working with style sheet rules. There are fourteen videos linked from this page, all dealing with creating and using style sheet rules. Videos range from an overview introduction to CSS, creating rules using the Properties Panel in Dreamweaver, creating 2- and 3-column layouts using rules, and creating a print style sheet.

Converting older web pages. A series of videos illustrating steps one might need to follow to convert older web pages using embedded font codes and a table layout to pages using style sheet rules and layout using style sheet rules. Includes video on making a template for a site.

Setting up a Google search. This video shows the steps to set up a Google search for your own site or for favorites sites you want to search as a group. It includes information about how to add a code to the head area of a web page to stop crawlers, like Google, from searching that particular page. The video runs 23 minutes.