Making HTML Drop Caps Work
R ecently, I have noticed a surge in interest for my book Church Website Design . I don’t know about everyone else, but when I see book sales rise, it gives me a renewed interest in the subject matter. Now, I’m not going to talk about church website design , exactly, but I am going to talk about that big R you see to the left and tell you more than you probably wanted to know. Now, if you know anything about HTML, there isn't a drop caps tag. To get that, you have to use Cascading Styles Sheets (CSS). In the case of this R, the style is defined inline. I will note that there are some good reasons why you should avoid doing that, but it is the easiest way to go for the typical blogger, since it doesn't require messing with the template or files on the server. This R is accomplished using the span tag and has the following form: <span style="font-size: 100px; float: left; color: #477fba; line-height: 70px; padding-top: 2px; font-family: times, serif, georgia"...