Basic illustrator question about rounded borders

I have been using dreamweaver and photoshop for my webpage but wanted to try to learn to do some things in other programs. I chose illustrator because I wanted to make a box with rounded top corners and square bottom corners. What I am wanting is something like what is found on the following website: www.wral.com. At the top of the page to the right of the logo, is a box like I want.
I found this video on youtube that made it look easy, however, I cannot get anything like that on my illustrator page. This is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YlDrVld8ZI
I have no idea how he gets the square started to be able to work with it, so really I have not even gotten started. He also has a window called "dynamic shapes" up on his screen and I cannot find that either.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Im using CS5.5.
Lee

That video shows the use of the Dynamic Shapes tool, a part of the commercial VectorScribe plug-in (from Astute Graphics).
To create this shape without a plug-in, see this recent Forum thread:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/993011?tstart=0
DF

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