One of the things that particularly interests me is simple formatting - how do I make my blog look user-friendly, interesting, uniquely me, and not just blocks of text broken up with movies or pictures now and then. I want to learn how to put a specific quotation in large font in a block near or in the middle of my text. I'm sure it's easy, I just think it can look kind of sharp. I can't explain the appeal of this - I used to hate them because they distracted me, they were never very important quotations it seemed to me, and it broke the flow of the text - yet somehow it grew on me, like a benign disease that insidiously crept into my brain one night - I don't know whether I like these quote boxes because as a child I was forced to deal with them in grade-school - in those huge anthologies where you are presented with pieces of stories but never the whole thing, or just because my adult mind likes the distraction from the text, or if it is because it can be done in an artistic way. But this is one thing. Another is how to more effectively intersperse pictures in my text. I love taking photos though I have no formal experience or training. There are times though that my words cannot touch an experience, the way a photograph cannot really show the grandeur of the real thing - yet images are more powerful than words sometimes and I want to be able to effectively capitalize on this.
Beyond those specifics, I just want to know how to do any nifty, artsy things to spice up a blog.
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