New article in the wiki on using CSS to implement drop caps:
Drop Caps are pretty much what the name implies: the first letter of a paragraph is enlarged and dropped to the left of the first paragraph on the page. This is seen in books, newspapers, and magazines all over. It is a classic design trick that can be successfully brought to a web page to give it a bit of elegance.
via TamWiki Main/Drop Caps With CSS complete with an example.
I am a software engineer by training and by temperament. I love working with computers, getting them to do all sorts of silly things. Having been without work for awhile, however, sort of stifles my creativity in terms of what to do about programming. In reading “My Job Went to India: 52 Ways to Save Your Job”, Chad Fowler recommends coding practice and points to the Pragmatic Programming weblog as a place where there are Kata, or exercises, available to help keep your programming skills honed.
I’ll be doing these and posting about them here, including links to the code. I’m currently learning Ruby, so that will be my primary language of development, at least for the time being.