The PPINET writing, teaching, design, and consulting team is headed by David Karlins.

David is a Web designer, author, teacher, consultant, and an amateur, unpublished movie critic.

Recent tutorials & articles by David Karlins...

Creating an External Style Sheet in Dreamweaver CS4... Quick Panels and Menu Bars from Dreamweaver's Spry Widgets... Embedding Flash Video with Dreamweaver... Mastering Vector Design: How to Create Illustrator Patterns... Vector Drawing with Illustrator: Easier Than You Think...

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Free Dreamweaver videos ...

thumbTEXT FORMAT WITH CSS:
I take a student's web page and play around with horizontal and vertical spacing, and color, to experiment with making type more inviting.

Designing interactive pages with CSS: Watch this demonstration of designing a page in Dreamweaver CS4 with AP Divs, and then programming thumbnails with behaviors to serve as a slideshow page. Watch Quicktime video.

Relative positioning with DIVs: Scenario... You want to defne a centered container in CSS with a relative size. AP Divs won't work because they are absolutely placed, and cannot be relative in size and placement. Want to do this in Dreamweaver? Watch Quicktime video.

Using library items: The value of library items as updatable site-managing objects. Watch cell-phone qualityvideo. Watch Quicktime movie