Comments on: WordPress.com Blog Bling: Blockquotes and Quotes

By: Designing a WordPress Theme: Building a Post Sandbox « Lorelle on WordPress

Designing a WordPress Theme: Building a Post Sandbox « Lorelle on WordPress — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:55:28 +0000

[...] WordPress.com Blog Bling: Blockquotes and Quotes [...]

By: Lightway

Lightway — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:19:11 +0000

I know this topic is a year old, but, wow, alot of harsh, dogmatic comments here. She made the point that this will work universally on any html platform, and was specific that it was designed for WordPress.com users. Not sure if the CSS restrictions are still in place in 2009 or not, but layout tags have been evolving for nearly 15 years, and alot of people learn certain layout techniques that were the standard at a given time. So grilling someone over lack of inline CSS (especially when she states she PREFERS to use inline CSS, but is restricted) is going really overboard.

Old school tables may be depreciated for layout, but they are so much more backward compatible, even if they are a pain to work with and not intended for layout. But people still do use them and they have their place.

I should whip up my Netscape Navigator 2.0 and render some of these newer pages LOL.

Thanks for the helpful article Lorelle.

By: WordPress - Simple CSS Text Boxes In Posts | More Than Scratch The Surface

WordPress - Simple CSS Text Boxes In Posts | More Than Scratch The Surface — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:23:42 +0000

[...] the external CSS solution above should work.There are other options that don’t use CSS, as outlined by Lorelle VanFossen, but be warned: these techniques are considered out of date by most people, [...]

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:57:53 +0000

@SolShine7: These will work ANYWHERE as they are blog software and program independent. They work with HTML, which is every web page's underlying code structure.

By: SolShine7

SolShine7 — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:38:12 +0000

Will these codes word in blogger?

Thanks for sharing. I’m hoping they work over there.

By: Celebrating Two Years: A Month of WordPress Tips « Lorelle on WordPress

Celebrating Two Years: A Month of WordPress Tips « Lorelle on WordPress — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:26:20 +0000

[...] WordPress.com Blog Bling: Blockquotes and Quotes [...]

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:27:25 +0000

The techniques involved in this series of articles should only be used by WordPress.com bloggers, unless full WordPress users have access to their stylesheets, then they can set the styles within the stylesheet to create these effects. And for the most part, these are creative effects for the post content area, not the whole blog. There are tons of articles on the WordPress Lessons on the WordPress Codex that will help you, step-by-step, to create the custom look you want for your blog. With the more than 1600 WordPress Themes available, you can choose one that matches your style without looking like everyone else. As for the image border thing, see Adding or Removing Link Borders Around Images.

By: Dee

Dee — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:06:47 +0000

Can I just say, I’ve only recently come across this site as I’m a new blogger and just wanted to see how to be creative without needing to know too much technical knowledge. Lorelle has given me such an insight into using what you can to make things easy. The templates given don’t allow the most of us to make our blogs look personal, so we have use what we can to add our own creativity. I don’t particularly care whether one tag is not used as much now as another, I just want to know how to get my blog looking good. Anyone know how to get rid of annoying automatic borders that come around insert images? Another problem with my default template.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:23:25 +0000

one of your best posts about styles in wordpress!
you’re the best

By: Blog Mirrors » Speedlinking

Blog Mirrors » Speedlinking — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:36:53 +0000

[...] has put together one of the best posts I’ve ever seen on blockquotes that goes beyond the basics and helps you customize this useful formatting [...]