Goings on

Greetings from House of Nerds, where things never stop changing! (Because I'm stuck in Maryland, and I have nothing better to do besides update the blog). Please read and provide feedback about the new additions.

Update: I ran out of time, because Congress is overzealous in their research today, I am going to update the links I reference here, explain to Joey how to use "read more" and how not to, and ask for your opinions about various optional updates. Stay tuned!

Until then, please observe today's fun tricks, after the jump.



Today's earlier post (here) shows all the style stuff I've changed: we now have fancy blockquotes, pullquotes, and drop caps. Here's the trick -- you just need to remember a TINY bit of css if you want to use them. I'll also update this on the FAQs page, in case you forget.

Most of you seem to have gotten the

<span id="fullpost"> 

down by now, so I'm going to add three more tags to your html/css vocabulary:

<span class="pullquote"> whatever you want to pull goes here</span>

<span class="dropcaps">the letter you want to make large goes here</span>

<blockquote>the text you want to highlight goes here</blockquote>

(you guys already know how to use this one, I think, so I'm not going to model it).
If you want the pullquote to look like this, then use "pullquote"
So. How do these work? Let's say you want to use the fancy "dropcaps" function, like in a magazine. You simply put the first letter of the word between

<span class="dropcaps"></span>

and it makes it pretty. So, for example, if I
If you think this pullquote is prettier, then just use "pullquote2".
Fun, right???
were to take a section from Smed's earlier post, I would go like this:

<span class="dropcaps">H</span>ere

and it would look like this:

Here is your legal lesson for the day. Big businesses get mortgages from the bank so they can buy really expensive property. But the bank doesn't want to be left with an mortgage IOU in exchange for loaning the companies
some money. So it divides the mortgage up into hundreds of pieces and sells them to the highest bidders. Each bidder tells the bank how much interest they want to make when the bank repays them.

Does that make sense? kinda cool, huh?