Tag Archives: css

Using CSS to eliminate your HTML headache

By faber | Published: April 27, 2011

Written by MPS Consultant Andrew Wood – for more help with this topic, visit Andrew at the MPS during his scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. For those of you with some familiarity with HTML, you’ve probably heard of CSS.  CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets, and they can make your HTML-coded website much, [...]

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Using Free CSS Templates in Dreamweaver – Screencast

By faber | Published: February 9, 2011

Written by MPS Consultant JP Cafaro – for more help with this topic, visit JP at the MPS during his scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule.  We’re new to the whole screencast thing, so apologies if you have trouble understanding or following along.  A list of bullet points below will hopefully help you stay with us.

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CSS Layout and Positioning

By faber | Published: October 18, 2010

Written by MPS Consultant Xing Su – for more help with this topic, visit Xing at the MPS during his scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. This is just an introduction to layout and positioning techniques in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), which is one of the most essential and powerful components of web design [...]

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WordPress out of pilot

By faber | Published: August 9, 2010

Duke has moved forward with a university-wide WordPress system, and said goodbye to the previous development environment we used to be working in.  Along with that, we’ve shed our bulky URL to the much more svelte one you probably see in your address bar above – http://sites.duke.edu/oit-mps. Unfortunately, along with that URL upgrade, and the [...]

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Copyright, Fair Use, and How to Apply it

By faber | Published: October 19, 2009

UPDATE 10-2010 – In July of this year, the DMCA came out with a new set of rules.  Some of the information below is no longer accurate.  Please see our post DMCA Rules, or Kevin Smith’s post Reading the Fine Print for more details about those rules. Issues of Intellectual Property and Copyright occur regularly [...]

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    The new MPS in 006 Bostock is officially open! Come see us in our new location near the Link in the lower level of Bostock.

    The Old Chem branch of the Multimedia Project Studio is now permanently closed.

  • What is the MPS?

    The Multimedia Project Studios are a series of high-end computer labs located at Duke University. We feature cutting edge equipment and industry standard software and are staffed by a corps of student Multimedia Consultants who are available to help you out with your project on a one-on-one basis, but are not able to do production work on your behalf.
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